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Latvia's claims might add tension - Russian diplomat

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MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti, Sergei Ryabikin) - Latvia's claims for compensation of damages from "Soviet occupation" may heighten tensions in Russian-Latvian relations, Russian Ambassador to the European Commission Vladimir Chizhov said Friday.

Commenting on today's decision by the Latvian committee on the assessment of damage from the Soviet Communist occupational regime to develop its own method of assessment, the Russian diplomat said, "I would call such actions a sort of fancy arithmetic without any practical application."

"Unfortunately, such statements might add additional tension to Russian-Latvian relations," he added.

Following this rationale, Russian might demand compensation from Latvia for enterprises and infrastructure it had built in the former Soviet republic after World War II, Chizhov said.

"Estonia and Lithuania are trying to assess the damage from the occupation since the beginning of the 1990s, and Latvia is sending a delegation to both countries to borrow from their experience," Edmund Stankevich, the head of the Latvian assessment committee said.

Latvian State Archive officials who attended the meeting of the committee offered to provide all necessary documents, including those from 1941, to "calculate the number of victims of repression and deportation, and mass graves."

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