A new organization made up of Russian emigres to Israel protested outside the Latvian Embassy in Tel Aviv against recent events in the Baltic nation honoring Latvian members of the Nazi SS. Some 25 members of For Our Land called last week on Israel to break ties with what they call the “pro-Nazi regime in Latvia.”
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