Ethnic split in Latvia looks bigger than it really is, researchers suggest

Their aim was to determine the attitudes of both Latvian and Russian speakers towards various issues polarizing society, as well as the attitudes of members of these groups towards each other.

Martins Levuškāns, chairman of the board of the association "Russian Voice for Latvia", says that the idea for the study was borrowed from the United States, where a similar study was conducted comparing Democratic and Republican supporters.

That survey also revealed that the differe...