RIGA (Reuters) - Latvia's prime minister said on Friday she would fire a cabinet colleague planning to march with veterans of the country's wartime Waffen SS divisions after being warned the event could incite tensions with Russia.
Many of Latvia's large Russian-speaking minority say the annual march on Sunday distorts history, honours Nazism and insults victims of the war. The Ukraine crisis has heightened concerns about Russian minorities among Moscow's neighbours.
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