Neither citizens nor foreigners: the non-citizenship puzzle of Latvia
Latvia restored its independence after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and since then, the Baltic state created a unique legal category called “non-citizen”. Exposed to several decades of Russification policy during the period of Soviet occupation, which strategically re-settled Russian speakers from all over the Soviet Union, the Latvian state created this status to regulate citizenship among "[former citizens of the USSR](https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/1995/99591)".
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