From 5 June to 10 September 2014 in Moscow at the Solzhenitsyn House of the Russian Foreign Diaspora was hela an exhibition «Legal expert Pyotr Jacobi and his family». P.Jacobi lived and frutfully worked in Riga for the last 20 years of his life. The exhibition was attached to the addition of P.Jacobi granddaughter`s  Ludmila Obolenskaya-Flam book «Legal expert Pyotr Jacobi and his family. memories» (Moscow, Russkiy put, 2014). L.Obolenskaya-Flam (USA) - chairperson of the Committee «Books for Russia», journalist, writer and public figure.

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In 2011 (after a break in 71 year) the tradition of the organization of Days of Russian culture  has revived. >>

Citizenship, usage of mother tongue and ethnic-based discrimination are the main acute problems for Latvia’s Russian minority. At present, one half of the Russian-speaking community of Latvia are Latvian citizens, while those belonging to the other half do not have citizenship of any country in the world. They form the unique legal category of “Latvian non-citizens”. >>

Since 2004 I have been an MEP, elected mostly by the votes of the Russian minority of the Republic of Latvia. At my request, over the period 2007-2008 a team of professional historians and journalists prepared a review exhibition on the history and present day realities of the Latvian Russian community. >>

The restoring of independence to Latvia gave a fresh impulse to the preservation and development of Russian traditional culture in this country.  >>

After restoration of independence of Latvia process of revival of Old belief  has begun. >>

Russian press of Latvia today is represented by 4 daily national newspapers, 11 weeklies, a dozen regional papers and over 30 magazines on the most diverse topics. There are women’s and men’s magazines, society columns’ fans, anglers, motoring fans, economists and accountants. >>

The end of the 1980’s is known as a period of rapid democratic reform in the USSR (Perestroika). This period was marked by a rise in civic engagement. After many years people were able to organise NGOs freely.  >>