The sentence for convicted deportation organiser Mikhail Farbtukh was reduced from seven to five years by a Supreme Court ruling. Farbtukh, who finally admitted to the deportations of 31 families in 1941, claimed ill health in his appeal. At the trial, which convicted him, Farbtukh only admitted to part of his crime.
Former victims are livid over the reduction.
The website of the Latvian government was hacked during the week, with the site's contents replaced by the hacker's statement on internet security. An anonymous man, claiming to be the hacker, told journalists that all he wanted to do was to point out the incredibly lax security feature on Latvian websites. IT officials said they got the site back to normal within an hour of the hack. In Warsaw, she met with President Aleksander Kwa niewski, Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek and other officials. The President stressed that economic ties between the two countries should increase.