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Latvia Gives Yeltsin Its Highest Award

Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga decorates former Russian president Boris Yeltsin with Order of the Three Stars (epa)

Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga decorates former Russian president Boris Yeltsin with Order of the Three Stars (epa)

August 22, 2006 -- Latvia's President Vaira Vike-Freiberga today presented Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, with its highest award in gratitude for what she described as his "historic" role in the liberation of Latvia from Soviet rule.

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August 22, 2006


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)

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