"It is very important when Russians looks at countries like Estonia or Latvia or Poland that they don't just see Estonian, Latvian and Polish soldiers – they see French, German, British soldiers too," he said.
Farage also said that he would ban anyone with a murder conviction from migrating to Britain after Arnis Zalkans, the Latvian builder who was jailed in his home country for the murder of his wife in 1998, emerged as the prime suspect in the murder of the teenage Londoner Alice Gross.
Some Latvian banks have faced international criticism for allegedly engaging in money laundering.
Many Latvians believe the influx of migrants from the USSR during decades of Soviet control was part of a concerted effort to destroy Latvian nationalism and Baltic culture, and recent government policies promoting the use of Latvian over Russian have been a source of tension.
The strange death of Boris Berozovsky, the exiled Russian oligarch, is using police time as much as Islamist extremists or Latvian burglars.
On Friday, finance minister Yanis Varoufakis meets his counterparts in the Latvian capital Riga in what many analysts believe is the penultimate gathering to work out a deal before Athens's coffers run dry.
In Latvia, two prospective allies, the Civic Union and the hardline nationalists of the For Fatherland and Freedom party – some of whom celebrate Latvian collaboration with the Waffen-SS against the Russians – are tipped to lose three of their four seats.
While broadly endorsing Latvian membership, the ECB pointed to risks entailed in the high level of foreign deposits in Latvian banks, a reference to the Russian funds held in Latvian accounts, which amount to about 40% of national GDP.
David Cameron, who was in the Latvian capital Riga with other EU leaders over the weekend, has invited European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, for talks on Monday at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence.
In what is widely seen as a make-or-break date for the debt-stricken nation, eurozone finance ministers have said they will pass judgment on the reform package Athens has been told to submit next week when they gather in the Latvian capital, Riga, on 24 April.
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