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Pamięć o przeszłości jako uzasadnienie decyzji kluczowych dla teraźniejszości. O zmaganiach Łotwy z Tatjaną Żdanok i Tatjany Żdanok z państwem łotewskim

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The present article outlines the conflict between the representative of the pro-Kremlin part of the Russian minority in Latvia and the local political community. The case will be presented in the broader context of the problems that emerge due to the constitutionalisation of new democratic communities after the fall of communism, the issues of the rule of law together, with questions of its unlimited inclusiveness. By discussing the case of Tatiana Zhdanok in a broad socio-political and historical context, it will be possible to reflect on Central European dilemmas concerning the values considered to be leading within the political community.
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        



 


           
        
  
    
    
       
         
          

           
           Theories of
Social Remembering
Wiek skrajności. Spojrzenie na krótkie XX stulecie
   




       


         
 

        

  
  



       
 Satversmes tiesa



       
        




       
 






 
          

             
           
             
   


        
         
             
    
Latvia From Eastern Bloc to European Union     
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 
     
        

   
         

       
   
         

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  

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od krytyki        
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



        
   
   
 


   


Ždanoka v. Latvia


Why autocrats love constitutional identity and constitutional pluralism
Lessons from Hungary and Poland n 


  

 


pierestrojki  







    

    
 
        
   

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
     

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    


     


           

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
State Continuity and Nationality: The Baltic States and Russia. Past, present
and future as dened by international law
Toward the West: Baltic realignment and Russia’s reply

 
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   
  
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

      






de facto



    

        





         
     
        
         
        
         
        
        


 Ibidem
          

 

   
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


   

           
     











 
 
       

          
          

     Bloody Sunday: What did Gorbachev know about the January
1991 events in Vilnius and Riga?
          
           
    
   
Legal Symbolism: On Law, Time and European
IdentityAutorytet państwa. Legitymizacyjne
znaczenie prawa w państwowej transformacji ustrojowej
      O odnowieniu niepodległości Republiki
Łotewskiej
 
 
 
        


          
          
         
         
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     
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        
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 
          

         


        
We Carried Out the People’s
Will
 

       
  
       
        


       
     


 



    
       
      



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        
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   
         
        

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       
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        




      


       




       

           

        

  
 
       
       

 
  
      
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          


      
   
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

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
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 

Saeimy


        
   
   
            

 

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


     

Saeimy

         

 



       


          
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        

             
           



        

 

        



       



 
      


    

    







      
        

          
 

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



    
          



         Saeiemy 

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 
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
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


      
        
        
       

         


      




Ždanoka vs. Latvia




   
         

  
        
       
            





          Ždanoka
v. Latvia


 
     
     

       

       




  

   

        

          
        lex specialis



       
     
    

        
   


de facto



  

    
    
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            

 

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         
        
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        
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      
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     
   

militant democracy
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 

         
        
      

         
 

   



     


       

     

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




         

        
          
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Jak społeczeństwa pamiętają
Kilka uwag o praktyce wykładni
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   Zachód porwany albo tragedia Europy Środkowej  
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 
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      
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          
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       
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
        
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      


      
         
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


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    



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
        
    
   
       
      
       
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
    
        



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Citizenship status and social exclusion in Estonia and Latvia

Toward the West: Baltic realignment and Russia’s reply   

Fragmentation, “lex specialis” and the tensions in the jurisprudence of the European
Court of Human Rights
Jak społeczeństwa pamiętają
Konstytucyjne ramy pamięci? Narracje pamięci w preambułach do konstytucji państw
postkomunistycznychNowy konstytucjonalizm. Polityczność, tożsamość, sfera publiczna

Wiek skrajności. Spojrzenie na krótkie XX stulecie
  Ždanoka  Latvia  European Court of Human Rights: The boundaries of the
right to be elected under Article 3 of the rst Protocol to the European Convention on Human
Rights. Judgment of 16 March 2006, Ždanoka v. Latvia 

Januar 1991 Barrikaden in Lettland
 
We Carried Out the People’s Will
Why autocrats love constitutional identity and constitutional pluralism Les-
sons from Hungary and Poland
Checks and Balances in Latvian Nationality Policies: National Agendas and International
Frameworks
Zachód porwany albo tragedia Europy Środkowej
Bloody Sunday: What did Gorbachev know about the January 1991 events in Vilnius and
Riga?
Kilka uwag o praktyce wykładni
LatviaFrom Eastern Bloc to European Union

Theories of Social Remembering
 Autorytet państwa. Legitymizacyjne znaczenie prawa w państwowej
transformacji ustrojowej
Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union
Foreign precedents in the case-law of the Latvian Constitutional Court

Legal Symbolism: On Law, Time and European Identity
Post-Soviet Latvia — a consolidated or defective democracy? The interaction between
domestic and European trajectories
Securing the only game in town: The EU’s political conditionality and democratic con-
solidation in post-Soviet Latvia
Ethnic proling: A rising challenge for European human rights law

State Continuity and Nationality: The Baltic States and Russia: Past, Present and Future
as Dened by International Law
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