Editing Passport (section)

====Latvia and Estonia====
Similarly, non-citizens [[Non-citizen (Latvia)|in Latvia]] and [[Estonian nationality law|in Estonia]] are individuals, primarily of Russian or Ukrainian ethnicity, who are not citizens of Latvia or Estonia, but who have settled during the [[Occupation of the Baltic states|Soviet occupation]], and thus have the right to a special non-citizen passport issued by the government as well as some other specific rights. Approximately two thirds of them are [[Russians in Latvia|ethnic Russians]], followed by ethnic Belarusians, ethnic Ukrainians, ethnic Poles and ethnic Lithuanians.<ref name="pmlp.gov.lv">[http://www.pmlp.gov.lv/lv/assets/documents/statistika/01.01.2015/ISVN_Latvija_pec_TTB_VPD.pdf Population of Latvia by ethnicity and nationality; Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031054711/https://www.pmlp.gov.lv/lv/assets/documents/statistika/01.01.2015/ISVN_Latvija_pec_TTB_VPD.pdf |date=31 October 2019}} 2015 {{in lang|lv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://vvc.gov.lv/export/sites/default/docs/LRTA/Likumi/On_the_Status_of_those_Former_U.S.S.R._Citizens.doc|title=Section 1 and Section 8, Law "On the Status of those Former U.S.S.R. Citizens who do not have the Citizenship of Latvia or that of any Other State"|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174813/http://vvc.gov.lv/export/sites/default/docs/LRTA/Likumi/On_the_Status_of_those_Former_U.S.S.R._Citizens.doc|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> According to the [[UN Special Rapporteur]], the citizenship and naturalization laws in Latvia "are seen by the Russian community as discriminatory practices".<ref name=UNSR>[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/7session/A.HRC.7.19.Add.3.doc Report on mission to Latvia (2008)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192204/http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/7session/A.HRC.7.19.Add.3.doc |date=2016-03-03 }}, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance — see Para. 30 and 88</ref> Per [[Visa policy of Russia|Russian visa policy]], holders of the [[Estonian alien's passport]] or the Latvian non-citizen passport are entitled to visa free entry to Russia, in contrast to Estonian and Latvian citizens who must obtain an electronic visa.