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Latvia Gives Yeltsin Its Highest Award
August 22, 2006
Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga decorates former Russian president Boris Yeltsin with Order of the Three Stars (epa)
As president, Yeltsin both ratified the Baltic state's independence in 1991 and oversaw the withdrawal of the Russian army from Latvian territory.
A group of ethnic Russians in Latvia in an open letter accused Yeltsin of "betraying" them by accepting the award.
(dpa, ITAR-TASS)