局外人对拉托维亚的各种缺点心存担忧，从有漏洞的边界控制到微少的防御开支，国家的主要媒体也被商业利益集团暗中控制。
Outsiders worry about Latvia’s manifold weaknesses, ranging from leaky border controls to feeble defence spending, as well as the domination of the media by shadowy commercial interests.
但俄罗斯和其他原苏联加盟共和国的关系也不是一律糟糕的：俄业已与拉托维亚签署了边界条约并且和匈牙利建立了紧密的伙伴关系。
Russia's relations with its former satellites are not uniformly bad: it has just signed a border treaty with Latvia and its ties with Hungary are positively chummy.
在经济过热的拉托维亚，2007年第四季度的工资水平已经比06年同期提高了30%。
In overheating Latvia, pay in the fourth quarter of 2007 was 30% up on a year earlier (see chart 1).
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