RUSSIAN SPEAKING RESIDENTS OF RIGA HOLD RALLY








RIGA, March 3. /RIA Novosti correspondent Anatoly Baranovsky/. A rally in support of the association of parties and public organisations "For Human Rights in Single Latvia" at municipal elections on March 11 was held near Congress House in Riga on Saturday.


	The rally was attended by about 200 supporters of the association, which upholds the interests of Latvia's Russian speakers.


	According to Tatyana Zhdanok, one of the rally's organisers and leader of the Equality Party, today's action coincided with the date of holding a public poll in 1991 in Latvia, when 74 per cent of its residents spoke out for independence.


	As a result, Gennady Kotov, co-chairman of the Latvian committee on human rights, noted at the rally, all Latvia's population was divided into citizens and non-citizens. Now the non-citizens are known to be deprived of many political, social and economic rights, including the right to take part in parliamentary and municipal elections.