The President's office blames the embassy at the UN, the embassy blames the President's office. In the end, the President took a room at the Waldorf - instead of something less elegant, as she insisted. On a brighter note, a local paper reported that President Vike-Freiberga has begun to learn Russian . One link was named as a notorious Latvian mobster. An investigator with the Economic Police was shot four times in his apartment bloc - but survived.
Most officials link it to a smuggling case the investigator was working on.
Youths linked to the Russian extremist group the National Bolsheviks of Eduard Limonov held an organisational meeting for the new group, Limonka . A similar group called Kolovrat is waiting to hear back from the Justice Ministry on their registration. Kolovrat is formed by members of the rival Russian extremist group the Russian National Unity. A recent poll showed that only one-third of Russian youths in Latvia feel they belong in Latvian society . A dangerous number, especially with the activity of all the various Russian extremist groups.