RIGA, January 30 (RIA Novosti, Yury Guralnik) - Thirty-nine percent of respondents in an opinion poll conducted in the Baltic republic of Latvia in late 2005 said their personal financial success was more important for them than political freedoms, according to the SKDS public opinion center.
Just 35% of the respondents put democratic freedoms ahead of financial success.
This question has been asked in polls in the former Soviet republic for three years running and respondents have increasingly tended to prefer affluence to democratic freedoms.
The poll covered about 2,000 people, aged from 18 to 60.
