RIGA, Latvia (AP) -- Brian Carlson, the U.S. ambassador to Latvia, criticized on Monday comments by ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky for threatening the Baltic state with terrorist attacks in a recent television interview.

Carlson said in an interview with Latvian daily newspaper Latvijas Avize that Zhirinovsky's threats put him in the same league as terrorists.

In an interview broadcast on Latvian television last week, Zhirinovsky said that Latvia would suffer terrorist attacks for its commitment to NATO membership and for instituting a law requiring all students to take 60 percent of their classes in Latvian starting in September.

Source: Moscow Times

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