Latvia’s top diplomat, Baiba Braze, was incensed by the man’s inability to speak her native language The Foreign Minister of Latvia Baiba Braze has confronted a taxi driver who she claims refused to speak any language other than Russian. It later transpired that the man is a Ukrainian national. While Latvian is the Baltic state’s sole official language, Russian is spoken by a substantial portion of its population, of which ethnic Russians make up approximately 25%, according to the country’s