> Among nationalist voters, the current mayor Nils Ušakovs of the (faux??) social democratic Harmony (S) party is already despised just for being an ethnic Russian

Who gives one shit that he is Russian, though? He could be an ethnic-Nigerian but if he was wasn’t as anti-Latvian, anti-Latvian history and corrupt as Ušakovs, we’d love him. It’s not about ethnicity, it’s about Ušakovs being a terrible politician, who gets elected because of his ethnicity. But the ethnicity itself does not merit hate.