• Latvijas Avize interviews several Latvian doctors on whether it is permissible to refuse treatment to patients due to some ideological reasons
• Latvian nationalist Aivars Slucis: two main problems in Latvia are Russification and corruption

Latvijas Avize interviews several Latvian doctors on whether it is permissible to refuse treatment to patients due to some ideological reasons. The newspaper takes an example when ethnic Jew doctor in Germany refused to operate a patient with Nazi tattoo. One of the interviewed doctors states that he most likely would refuse to treat a patient who has a tattoo “USSR” or who would demand from a doctor to speak to him in Russian. The doctor states that he would refuse to treat Russian chauvinists, with the exception of urgent operation. Other interviewed doctors believe that such action is impermissible because doctors must treat all patients regardless of their own ideological or emotional attitude.

A Latvian nationalist Aivars Slucis (residing in the U.S.A) in an interview with a channel TV-5 stated that half of ethnic Russian residents should leave Latvia, at the same time, so-called “loyal” Russians can reside in the country. Mr. Slucis believes that the two main problems in Latvia are Russification and corruption. As reported, Aivars Slucis in an e-mail exchange with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Girts Valdis Kristovskis stated that “as a doctor I would not be able to treat Russians in Latvia equally with ethnic Latvians.” Vesti Segodnya