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	Documents of the Soviet Intelligence Testify: Abrene Region is Latvian Territory
		It refers to the WWII documents of the Soviet intelligence, in which Abrene is mentioned not as Soviet, but as Latvian territory.
		In the dispatch of Soviet intelligence resident Maksimov from August 1944 concerning agent recruitment in Abrene region, the Latvian name of the railway station Punduri is mentioned (photocopy no.3).
		At the same time, the districts of Gavry, Karsava, Ludza, and Rezekne (the latter three are today located in the territory of Latvia) and Vilaka, Jaunlatgale, Gavry (the first one of them is located in the territory of Latvia) are mentioned as the integrated territorial units, which they were in reality (photocopy no.4).
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=470 (0 words)

	Vai Latvijai ir vajadzīga Abrene? - Abrene (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iedzīvotāji, kuri piedzīvojuši Abrenes atņemšanu, uzskata, ka Latvijai ir tiesības atgūt savu teritoriju.
		Lūk, ko Abrenes sakarā paudis pazīstamais publicists, Saeimas deputāts un vēsturnieks Visvaldis Lācis: "Abrenes mežiem, zemēm un purviem neapšaubāmi ir ļoti liela vērtība.
		Varbūt vietā atcerēties arī Abrenes nozīmi tālākā nākotnē.
	www.musuabrene.lv (298 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Abrene district"
		The Abrene district (Latvian: Abrenes apriņķis) was an administrative district in the Republic of Latvia with an area of 4292 square kilometers, formed in 1925 from the northern part of the Ludza district and the western part of the Ostrov region as the Jaunlatgale (New Latgale) district, but this was renamed Abrene in 1938.
		The district included the towns of Balvi and Abrene and 14 villages, and the civil parishes (Latvian: pagasti) comprising the district were reorganized thrice (there were 12 in 1929, 13 in 1935, and 15 in 1940).
		The Abrene region was long a point of contact and friction between the Finno-Ugric, Baltic, and Slavic languages, cultures, tribes, and countries.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=abrene_district (1221 words)

	International Civic Heraldry- LATVIA - ABRENE
		Abrene was an old castle of Latgali people (Latvian tribe) in the Talava land.
		In 1938 the city was renamed back to Abrene and got arms: six horseshoes as a symbol of luck.
		During the Soviet occupation Abrene was transferred from Latvia to Russia and renamed to Pytalovo.
	www.ngw.nl /int/lat/abrene.htm (0 words)

	Nationalists left in the cold as Latvia warms to Russia
		Nevertheless, the issue of Abrene has already torpedoed one attempt to sign the border treaty, whose text was agreed by a bilateral panel of experts in 1997.
		Latvian politicians said that the text was necessary to prove that the modern Latvia is legally the same state as the Latvian Republic which was founded in 1918.
		With both states apparently keen to solve the Abrene issue, their protests, like their supporters, look set to remain where they started the day: in the cold.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /europe/features/printer_1261421.php (591 words)

	Abrene region (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abrene region is a territory of over 1000 square kilometers, currently in the Russian Federation as the Pytalovo District of Pskov Oblast, just northeast of Latvia.
		Abrene, the largest town in region, was given back its former name of Pytalovo (from Latvian word Pietālava).
		In 2005, President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga said that, most likely, the border agreement which is planned to be signed soon would forever cede the Abrene region to Russia, thereby ending the dispute.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ab/Abrene%20region.htm (325 words)

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		Russian expansionists have repeatedly claimed the Crimea and Sevastopol, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting during the Crimean War, and wanted these areas incorporated into Russia.
		A number of protesters of Latvian origin were asking for the return of Abrene, a district of Eastern Latvia seized and retained by the former Soviet occupiers.
		According to the 1920 peace agreement between Soviet Russia and the newly independent Latvia, Abrene was recognized as part of Latvia.
	www.populist.org /east_europeans.html (0 words)

	Baltic American Freedom League
		Negotiations for a new border treaty were initiated in 1997 but stalled just before being signed in 2005 due to last minute changes to the treaty.
		The declaration was originally attached to counter concerns that the continuity of the state could be threatened by not referring to the previous treaty.
		While the loss of Abrene has drawn a number of impassioned speeches in Parliament, most Latvians do not consider it to be a crucial issue.
	www.bafl.com /newsDetail.asp?idNews=385 (821 words)

	Latvians Online \| Forum \| The Border Deal
		Also, if Abrene is the only bone of contention and that is what keeps sticking in Russia’s craw, why not formally cede Abrene to Russia, in whatever form they’d see fit, in return for Russia recognizing the 1920 treaty.
		Abrene is a real place, even without DOA’s anthropomorphization, and DOA is quite right—in essence; if you can sign it away so easily, just wait until you get signed away.
		Ceding Abrene to Russia formally would be like someone sticking a knife in your back once and then you giving them that knife and saying ‘here, do it again and give it a good twist this time.
	latviansonline.com /index.php/forum/viewreply/10155 (5012 words)

	Swiss Baltic Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kalvitis' government has drawn criticism for giving up Abrene territory to Russia, while lawmakers of the ruling coalition believe that it would be impossible to regain the lost territory and that the treaty will start of a new era in Latvia's relations with Russia.
		The draft border agreement was initialled after lengthy negotiations that lasted for more than one and a half year, and the breakthrough was made only when Latvia gave up its demand to include a reference to the 1920 Peace Treaty in the document.
		Latvia’s former Abrene district was transferred to the Soviet Union after World War II and renamed into Pytalovo.
	www.sbcc-chamber.com /index.php?lng=en&page_id=43&news_id=314 (1653 words)

	Pytalovo Information
		Pytalovo (Russian: Пыта́лово, Latvian: Abrene) is a town in Pskov Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Pytalovsky District.
		After the World War II, the Soviet Union transferred Abrene together with the eastern part of the Abrene District from Latvian SSR to Pskov Oblast of the Russian SFSR.
		Among places of interest in town Pytalovo there is a modernist style railroad station building built in the early 20th century, the wooden building of the functioning St. Nicholas Church built in 1931, the post office building (early 20th century) and the house of merchant Ilyin (built in 1920s) located 9 Pushkinskaya street.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Pytalovo (288 words)

	The Raw Story \| Border proposal to be presented to Latvian parliament on Thursday; three readings to follow
		At the end of World War II, the puppet government transferred the eastern Latvian town of Abrene to Russia.
		The government, however, believes that Latvia now has a "great chance" to regularize its relations with Russia - a chance that should not be jeopardized by "unrealistic" calls for compensation.
		But with even some lawmakers from government parties opposed to the idea of "abandoning" the Abrene question, the issue of compensation looks set to trouble the border for some time to come.
	rawstory.com /news/2006/Border_proposal_to_be_presented_to__01242007.html (634 words)

	Latvian opposition challenges legality of Russian border treaty
		The two countries' border had followed the line Stalin drew until the new treaty was approved on Tuesday.
		That territory is defined as the provinces of Vidzeme, Kurzeme, Zemgale and Latgale - the latter being the province from which Abrene was removed.
		Observers have questioned whether the treaty, which effectively ratifies the loss of Abrene, breaches the law on changing Latvia's territory.
	www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/45498.html (534 words)

	Latvia
		In fact, Latvia has no territorial claims towards Russia, but demands an acknowledgement of the annexiation of the Abrene region to some degree, since this land was previously part of Latvia and detached from it by Russia during Soviet days.
		Abrene region, annexed to Russia during WWII; its status is disputed by Latvia.
		Large parts of Latvia are covered by forests, and the country has over 12,000 small rivers and over 3,000 lakes.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/la/Latvia.htm (1376 words)

	Marginalia: January 2007
		Now that the nation is no longer agrarian -- something laissez-faire accomplished with the scary speed communism was incapable of even before "the stagnation" -- his breed will surely be rare.
		The town of Abrene didn't exist until the region became a part of newborn Latvia -- it was a train station, a strategically important railway junction, and some shacks.
		The photograph of Abrene in the interbellum is from the official website of Pytalovo.
	lettonica.blogspot.com /2007_01_01_archive.html (2040 words)

	Re: Suggested Russian referendum on Abrene etc. (was: La grande Putain) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The internal Soviet decision to transfer Abrene from the Latvian SSR to the Russian FSSR is in no respect 'international law', it is simply irrelevant in any international judicial context.
		Since we have now returned from totalitarian politics of force to (more or less) civilized and regulated international relations, there is only one way of solving the Abrene case, and that is to start negotiations from the state of affairs _before_ the Soviet aggression.
		That state of affairs was based on the 1920 peace treaty and on the non-aggression agreement between Latvia and the USSR.
	www.newsfeeds.com /archive/soc-culture-russian/msg07023.html (1312 words)

	Abrenite
		The women of Ilzini the got together and began to sing songs of Abrene area.
		We were born and have grown in Abrene area, which administrative centre for long has been Vilaka.
		Our white Abrene costumes are recognized to be very beautiful.
	folklora.lv /kopas/abrenite/en.shtml (214 words)

	Gulbene - Aluksne Narrow Gauge Railway
		The locomotive depot and repair shops, the passenger building at Vecgulbene station, buildings and dwelling houses for the use of railway staff and the so-called "tea house" for the refreshment of railwaymen and passengers were compactly placed behind the railway line, as viewed from the present city centre.
		Significant changes came to Gulbene with the construction of the Leriki - Gulbene broad-gauge railway and the line from Gulbene to Sita, providing the means to get from Riga up to Abrene via Gulbene.
		As a result, after the establishment of the independent Latvian state, Gulbene became one of the most economically significant railway junctions in the country.
	www.banitis.lv /eng/apbuve.htm (737 words)

	Latvia.no
		The recent declaration is now the second document to raise the ire of Russia.
		President Vladimir Putin called the previous one, a last-minute attachment to a proposed border agreement, ¡§stupid.¡¨ He said it boiled down to a territorial claim against Russia for the lost region of Abrene.
		The border was redrawn during the Soviet occupation after the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic ¡§gifted¡¨ the region of Abrene to the Russian Republic.
	www.latvia.no /index.php?articleid=105&expand=5 (596 words)

	Marginalia: February 2007
		It's not the territory many Latvians don't want to see given back (even in an ideal world where it might be) -- it's the people who live there now they wouldn't want to see (and one must note that most surveys about these issues are of everybody in Latvia -- non-citizens included).
		Not only ethnic Latvians but also many of the ethnic Russians who lived in Abrene, and formed a majority of the population there (many of them actually Russified Latvians, ethnically, to be precise -- and almost all of them Latvian nationals), were driven out after the war.
		One of the most popular takes on the Abrene question in these past weeks has been to recall the intransigence of the arch-nationalists during the Third Awakening (as Daukšte does).
	lettonica.blogspot.com /2007_02_01_archive.html (1748 words)

	FORGET ABRENE
		That document established a significantly different state border than the one today, as a small rump of land now known as Pytalovo was part of Latvia.
		The territory, which Latvians call Abrene, was taken from the Baltic state at the beginning of post-WWII occupation.
		The Kremlin claims that mentioning the 1920 treaty amounts to “irredentism,” that Latvia wants to get Pytalovo back.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/17233 (0 words)

	Latvia information - Search.com
		Latvia has no territorial claims towards Russia, but demands an acknowledgement from Russia of the annexation of the small part of the Abrene region, since this land was previously part of Latvia and was detached from it by the Soviet Union.
		At the same time Latvia is considering to require monetary compensation from Russia for the Soviet occupation.
		Abrene region (1919-1940), annexed to Russia during WWII;
	www.search.com /reference/Latvia (3752 words)

	Baltic American Freedom League
		The declaration contained a reference to the 1920 Latvian-Russian Peace Treaty under which Abrene County (now Pytalovo) belongs to Latvia.
		The government said the declaration was meant to solve contradictions in the Latvian Constitution as regards Abrene County, which used to be a Latvian territory when the constitution was first adopted in the 1920s.
		Russia interpreted the declaration as a territorial claim and refused to sign the border treaty.
	www.bafl.com /newsDetail.asp?idNews=374 (448 words)

	NATO will use Riga Summit for first real training in the Baltic states: Latvian press digest
		We say that we must not give Abrene to Russia, but admit that Russia has taken it away from us – and we have no hope that in the coming decades Russia will be ready to speak about it.
		In fact, Russia does not want to set a precedent as, if it gives Abrene to Latvia, it will consequently have to give something to Japan, Finland or any other states whose territories were taken by the Soviet Union.
		If we are so eager to get Abrene back, we should make our nuclear bomb and threaten Russia with it, but we should keep in mind that in such a case NATO tanks will not come to help us.”
	www.iraq-war.ru /article/109956 (2810 words)

	Documents of the Soviet Intelligence Testify:
		According to this agreement, Pytalovo and its surroundings were submitted to independent Latvia.
		In the dispatch of Soviet intelligence resident Maksimov from August 1944 concerning agent recruitment in Abrene region, the Latvian name of the railway station Punduri is mentioned (
		At the same time, the districts of Gavry, Karsava, Ludza, and Rezekne (the latter three are today located in the territory of Latvia) and Vilaka, Jaunlatgale, Gavry (the first one of them is located in the territory of Latvia) are mentioned as the integrated territorial units, which they were in reality (
	www.latvians.com /en/Mailer/SovietsAndAbrene.php (1709 words)

	Top20Latvia.com - Your Top20 Guide to Latvia!
		Latvia is also historically, culturally and constitutionally divided in four or more distinct regions, see regions of Latvia.
		Abrene District (1919-1940), the eastern part of which was annexed to Russia in 1944;
		Prior to World War II, Latvia bordered eastern Poland, but as a result of boundary changes by the Soviet Union, this territory was attached to Belorussia, Latvia also lost part of the former Abrene District i.e.
	www.top20latvia.com (2439 words)

	International Boundaries Research Unit : IBRU news - Durham University
		Latvia attempted to attach an explanatory statement to the treaty which made reference to the 1920 Latvia-Russia peace treaty.
		Claimed by many in Latvia to have been agreed under duress, this treaty allocated the former Latvian district of Abrene to Russia where it is now called Pytalovo.
		Russia objected to the inclusion of the attached statement in the border treaty, believing that it left open the possibility of future territorial claims.
	www.dur.ac.uk /ibru/news/ibru_news/index.php?itemno=5244 (248 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aivars Vovers, Latvia's chief delegate to the negotiations on a border agreement with Russia, announced yesterday that Latvia agreed to major concessions in the February 24-25 round of talks in Moscow.
		Riga has dropped the issue of the Abrene district (renamed Pytalovo), annexed to the Russian Federation following the Soviet occupation of Latvia.
		It has also given up compensation claims on behalf of that district's expropriated residents, and has renounced the demand to include a reference to the legal validity of the 1920 Russian-Latvian peace treaty in this border agreement.
	www.jamestown.org /email-to-friend.php?article_id=644 (290 words)

	East Latvian Map
		The map above is showing Eastern Latvia as in 1939.
		The six municipalities of Upmales, Linavas, Purvmalas, Augspils, Gauri, a part of Pededzes and the town of Abrene was in 1944 annexed by the Soviet Union.
		Before the war the Punduri station was situated on the internal Latvian border between the municipalities of Gauri and Baltinavas.
	geosite.jankrogh.com /borders/east_latvian_map.htm (101 words)

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