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1) the commitment to the conflict and its implementation in the acts of opposition to the regime in Latvia is directly connected to the ethno-political and ethno-cultural components of national identity of the dominant and subordinated titular ethnic minorities;

2) the crisis of liberal democratic multicultural and ethnic societies contribute to the political radicalization of ethnic and cultural minorities demands greater recognition and implementation of their cultural practices and identities.

Methods and data. The analysis of national identity and ethnic conflicts in Latvia was laid sociological survey conducted in August – September 2011 by prof.A.Gaponenko and prof.M.Rodins of the Latvian Institute of European Studies. Analysis of the ethno-political and social relations in Latvia was carried out before and after the parliamentary elections of 2010. On the background a deepening economic and institutional crisis in Latvia describes and analyzes the radicalization of ethno-political behavior and mass consciousness. Analysis of institutions and actors of the Latvian ethno-democracy is given as a result of internal and external policies.

Research methods used are a combination of quantitative analysis in the measurement of national identity and ethnic conflicts and qualitative methods to describe the characteristics of the Latvian ethno-democracy. The main intention was to conduct a one pane population studies based on a proportional representative sample of the national socio-demographic and stratification parameters (technical description of the sampling strategy is given in Appendix 1). Polling data were collected through questionnaires, formal interviews with 1,102 respondents in Latvia. Questionnaire, made by Russian and Latvian languages, contains more than 1000 variables and parameters.