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Activists defending Russian schools in Latvia plan new protest campaigns against the approved amendments to the Latvian law on education, RT informs.
Co-chairman of the Latvian Committee for Human Rights, member of the Headquarters of the Russian Schools’ Protection Vladimir Byzaev has informed that several thousand people are expected to take part in the protest campaigns.
The exact date of the meeting have not been appointed yet. The campaign is preliminary scheduled for the 1st of June or for the 2nd of June. The campaign participants are going to surround the Cabinet of Ministers who initially proposed a disgraceful for the Russian-speaking minority of Latvia initiative.
According to organizers, the event will be agreed with local authorities, the claim for its conduction will be directed to the local administration on May 15. “We have just one demand – to preserve Russian schools,” the Headquarters member Andrey Tolmachyev explained.
As the Russkiy Mir Foundation reported earlier, at the beginning of April, despite all protests of the Russian-speaking communities, President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis approved of the amendments to the law on education which exclude any teaching in Russian at Latvian schools. Russian compatriots went on numerous strikes trying to attract the attention of authorities to the problem of Russian schools and to the fact that the new law requires revision.
At the end of April hunt for the Russian schools’ defenders began. The fist to be arrested was
Alexander Gaponenko. He was accused of anti-state activities. Later the Security Police opened a criminal case against organizers of All- Latvian Parent Meeting, where Russian-speaking parents sharply criticized the approved amendments.
Tatiana Zhdanok and other 7 people appeared on the list of suspects. Besides, the court allowed to arrest the human rights defender
Vladimir Linderman.
Russkiy Mir
