As recently as 1944, the USSR granted Russia the Abrene region, which Latvia contested after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. ==Physical environment== Latvia encompasses 64,589 square kilometers and is an extension of the East European Plain.
The second dam—Pļaviņas Hydro Power Plant—aroused an unusual wave of protest in 1958.
The construction of the dam was endorsed in 1959, however, after the purge of relatively liberal and nationally oriented leaders under Eduards Berklavs and their replacement by Moscow-oriented, ideologically conservative cadres led by Arvīds Pelše.
During the 1960s and 1970s, drainage work absorbed about one-third of all agricultural investments in Latvia.
During the 1960s and 1970s, drainage work absorbed about one-third of all agricultural investments in Latvia.
The proposed fourth dam, at the town of Daugavpils on the Daugava River, became the rallying point for protest in 1986-87 by hundreds of thousands of Latvians.
The dangers from a lack of cooperation were brought home to Latvians in November 1990, when a polymer complex in Navapolatsk, Belarus, accidentally spilled 128 tons of cyanide derivatives into the Daugava River with no warning to downstream users in Latvia.
In 1992 Latvia experienced the driest summer in recorded weather history, but unusually heavy rains in the preceding spring kept crop damage below the extent expected.
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