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Small nation gives big to U of M
ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS - A small country came up with enough money for a meaningful gift
to the University of Minnesota.

The Latvian government has given the university $80,000 for a graduate
fellowship in Latvian-American studies. It was a large sum for the Baltic
republic. It's the poorest nation in the European Union; the average Latvian
earns less than $4,000 a year.

The gift will benefit the university's Immigration History Research Center,
which holds an extensive collection of papers documenting Latvian migration
to the United States after the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in World War II.

The fellowship will pay for a graduate student to research documents written
in Latvian that are part of the center's collection.

"Since the fall of the Soviet Union ... there's been increasing involvement in
homeland affairs and connection with people who had left. There's an
opportunity to reconnect by people who had to flee their homeland," said Joel
Wurl, curator.

Since Latvia regained its independence in 1991, there's been additional
migration from Latvia to the United States, including Minnesota.

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