I am no expert on latvian or russian history but i have recently visited latvia and found out to my suprise about this aliens. Before now i thought aliens where from outer space not from europe. So i admit i have limited knowlage and im sure someone here will educate me but it seems in this day and age that a person born in latvia whos parents where born in latvia who was educated in latvia works in latvia obeys the latvian laws and pays their taxes can be treated as can only be discribed as a second class citizen.(or in this case non citizen)latvia can have their own laws but they are in europe now and have benifited im sure by becoming members and i am shocked that the eu will allow discrimination like this. These people have no nationality,no rights to vote or no say in how the taxes that they pay will be spent. They do not enjoy the same rights to travel or work within the eu as latvian citizens. People can talk about russia and about history all they like but there is only one word to discribe this situation and that is DISCRIMINATION. These people where born in latvia and in a lot of cases their parents where born in latvia. I do not believe the eu should allow a government to discriminate against its people on any grounds religion race colour or sexual orientation. I thought the days of the nazis where well behind us. You can not hold people reponcable for the percieved crimes of their grandparents. If hitler was my great grandfather does that make me a mass murderer?