Actually data said if your draft involved refuse the assumption one to young Russians do not see Latvian

Most likely there was a few “puppet NGOs” paid because of the regulators whoever representatives you’ll give something similar to so it, however, this will be factually completely wrong

3. 16 [See new part 29]: “However, in the view of the Russian-speaking political parties…”. In fact, as all surveys reveal, this view is shared by a large majority of both Fort Lauderdale escort service non-citizens and Russian-speaking citizens of Latvia – thus, this is not just an attitude of some politicians.

4. 17 [See new paragraph 31]: “The integration policy the Latvian government has been pursuing for the past eleven years…” – in fact, the integration concept was officially adopted only in 1999, before that the official discourse was rather one of “de-colonization”. The very adoption of the citizenship law can hardly be regarded as a sign of the government’s goodwill – it was adopted after lengthy delays under the pressure of the Council of Europe: adoption of this law was an explicit precondition for the accession of Latvia to the Council of Europe, and exactly this delay was the reason why Latvia joined the Council of Europe almost two years later than its neighbours Estonia and Lithuania.

5. 18 [See new part 32]: “In the opinion of the NGOs, including those representing the Russian-speaking community, young people are typically not interested in learning Latvian and make no effort even to acquire the rudiments, but at the same time hope for automatic naturalisation in the medium term”.

All studies reveal that the data off Latvian one of young Russian-sound system features improved drastically, and that on the 95-98% off mothers think you to expertise in the new Latvian words is important because of their youngsters, and you will cause them to become learn it really as you are able to. Furthermore, it is simply impractical to scholar off even pris for the Latvian from year to year. Actually, the latest declaration significantly more than is absolutely nothing more nationalistic stereotype that’s clearly slanderous and you can insulting for the Russian-speaking area and cannot be used into the a serious statement. Whatever the case, which report can not be showed because highlighting new opinions out-of actually just about significant area of the Russian-talking NGOs. The newest prejudiced affairs of kind might absolutely undermine the fresh new trustworthiness of the entire declaration.

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6. 19 [See new paragraph 33]: it is not clear which “extremist Russian-speaking political parties” are meant (we do have some small parties of the kind, unfortunately, but meetings with them were not included into the Rapporteur’s programme, as far as I know). Besides, it is not clear what kind of “alarmist figures” is meant – in fact, these Russian nationalistic parties do not predict any large-scale (re-)emigration to Russia and put forward quite different slogans.

7. 32 [See new sentences 51-52]: It is not clear what 109 advisory boards are meant. At the national level, the Minority Consultative Council attached to the former President G. Ulmanis was functioning between 1996 and 1998 (I was a member of this council from its first till the last meeting), however, after the election of the current President V.Vike-Freiberga, it was abolished. Two specialised boards currently exist. The first one is on minority education issues at the Ministry of Education. Majority of its members represent the Ministry’ bureaucrats and school administrations, and only minority – relevant NGOs, besides, these NGOs are chosen by the Ministry itself, and often they do not represent the genuine views of the persons and groups affected. Under the previous minister Mrs Druviete, the board was not summoned for more than half a year. Most recent information on the board’s activity is available (in Russian) at .