Dimitry Kochenov: 'Grant EU citizenship to huge stateless population of Latvia'
Dimitry Kochenov (EU Constitutional Law) took part in the prime-time Latvian TV show on LTV7 advocating the grant of EU citizenship to the huge stateless population of Latvia, where second-rate status of "non-citizens" is reserved for the ethnic minorities punished by association for the sad reality of the Soviet occupation. Prof. Kochenov position, drawing on a paper he published in Texas in the Houston Journal of International Law this year in co-authorship with Alexejs Dimitrovs, a lawyer at the European Parliament. The paper has been translated into Russian and republished in Moscow by Vestnik MGYuA. (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2712510)
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