Wednesday, December 31, 2008

WTF

Over 400 Lativans have signed a letter addressed to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich asking him to buy their country. The letter, posted by an unknown person on the petitionline.com website, reads, "Dear Roman Abramovich. As you may already know our homeland Latvia went bankrupt and is currently holding talks with the International Monetary Fund on the sale of our country for 7.5 billion euros ($10.7 billion)." Latvia has experienced the worst economic decline in the European Union, with the country's GDP declining for a third quarter this year by 4.6% against the same period last year. Earlier in the year some 2,000 Latvian residents, the country has a population of around 2.3 million, posted a petition on the internet asking the government of Sweden "to occupy" their country. SOURCE

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