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image by Željko Heimer, 8 April 2002
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Mr. Denis Sacharnych has sent a photo from official web-site of
Staff of Protection of Russian Schools in Latvia at <www.shtab.lv>. Such
flag is unofficially used by a social movement for human rights
in uniform Latvia. Passports of inhabitants of Latvia,
who are not having Latvian citizenship (non-citizen, mainly -
Russian which arrived in Latvian SSR after 1940) have such violet
shade.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 1 October 2005
Couldn't that "violet" be explained as simply an
artifact of the lighting, film or other camera setting? My first
thought was that this was a plain old Latvian flag.
Albert S. Kirsch, 1 October 2005
No, it not an artefact. It is real, true color of this
flag, distinguished from a shade of red color on
national flag of Latvia. Such color, precisely such, use in
covers of passports of non-citizen in Latvia. About that, there
are many news in the Russian TV and on web-sites.
The design of this flag completely identical to the national flag
of Latvia. Difference consists only in color of the two wide
strips. True original shade of this color can be seen
on the passport of non-citizen of Latvia at <www.ocma.gov.lv>.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 2 October 2005
The so called flag of the Russian population in Latvia - the
violet Latvian, based on the colour of the aliens passport in
Latvia, is actually nither a political, nor ethnic symbol. The
flag is a campaign - one off - leaflet distributed in the cetral
part of Riga on 18 November 2005. Besides, being
"violet" is a political stance in Latvia, as there are
no legal barriers to the Russian speakers to get naturalised into
Latvian citizenship.
Ree Fischer, 4 December 2005
