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Latvia marginalizing native Russian-speakers with 'restrictive policies' driven by 'political agenda,' Council of Europe warns — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union


“Increasingly strict Latvian language proficiency requirements are applied to virtually all professions,” the report says, arguing that
“such broad scope of application of linguistic requirements adversely affects the possibility for non-native speakers of Latvian.” Those rules, it claimed, have even
“been used to terminate mandates of elected municipal council members.”
At the same time, the watchdog blasted Riga because
“cases of inflammatory statements by public figures have not led to the authorities taking sufficient action, creating an impression of impunity and ambivalence, thus affecting negatively the interethnic climate.”
In the sternly worded missive, diplomats insisted that
“restrictive policies and other pressures driven by a political agenda, rather than evidence-based decision-making, are particularly evident in the education system, the media, and with regard to the use of national minority languages in many areas of pu ....

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Latvia for the Latvians! Baltic nation's President says it will be true ethnic homeland by 2030, despite fact 1 in 4 are Russians — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union


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In less than a decade, Latvia could take its place among the top tier of European nations, its president has claimed, arguing that its language and culture will become dominant despite much of the country speaking Russian at home.
Egils Levits made the remarks in a discussion on parliamentary democracy on Friday, insisting that, by 2030,
“we could become one of the most modern European countries.” This, he claimed, is not because the nation would accept every innovation, but because it would accept only the most important ones, and can discern what really matters.
However, he added, Latvia will ....

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