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Latvian parliament deputy and Baltic Forum President Janis Urbanovic has criticized a Neo-Nazi march planned in Riga for March 16 in memory of Waffen SS veterans. Moscow, March 16 (Interfax) - Latvian parliament deputy and Baltic Forum President Janis Urbanovic has criticized a Neo-Nazi march planned in Riga for March 16 in memory of Waffen SS veterans, the World Congress of Russian Jewry said.

"Plenty of issues in our history require clarification, but historical flashbacks spill into streets and obstruct our peace and accord," Urbanovic said in Riga on Monday, at the opening of the international conference "WWII Results: Victims, Righteous Men, Liberators and Hangmen".

"The march of a handful of miserable people entangled in the historical intricacies cannot impede the study of the Holocaust," President of the World Congress of Russian Jewry and Federation Council member Boris Spigel said.

The conference takes place during the year of the 65th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis, and this is especially significant, he said. The conference is a much more civilized way to find out historical truths than a march, he added.

More than 50 historians, documentary film directors and writers from Russia, the Baltic states, Israel, the United States, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova will take part in the conference under the leadership of the World Congress of Russian Jewry and the Baltic Forum.

The congress plans to hold a meeting of anti-fascist forces in Riga on March 16.