Russia said on Sunday that Latvia had "breached its international obligations" after the Baltic state declined to allow a Russian mission to observe at a referendum which rejected a proposal for Russian to be made the country's second official language. Latvia's decision caused "bewilderment," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement. With nearly all the votes counted, 75 percent of votes cast in the referendum were against the proposal. Ethnic Russians make up about one-third of Latvia's 2.1 million population; many of them have no Latvian (nor any other) citizenship.
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