Latvia is bracing for a brutal winter, outside and inside, as it struggles to heat homes and businesses with less Russian energy. Alternative sources of heat and electricity cannot yet compensate for the deficit, so the government is turning down the temperature in public buildings and asking ordinary citizens to do the same. Gerry Hadden reports from the capital of Riga on how people are adapting.
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