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Constitutional Court in Latvia to hold a hearing on shifting Russian schools to Latvian

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Constitutional Court in Latvia to hold a hearing on shifting Russian schools to Latvian


28.07.2018

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The Constitutional Court in Latvia will examine the educational reform, reports ТАSS.The case is already opened, comment the court officials. The are supposed to decide whether shifting teaching at Russian schools to the Latvian language violates Latvia's constitution or not. Russian community is the biggest national minority in Latvia.    

The Parliament is to prepare the document stipulating all the facts and legal justifications for the law. The deputies are supposed to have it ready in September. The case is to be prepared till December 25, 2018.  

As previously reported by the Russkiy Mir, the Concord party, which represents the interests of Russian-speaking people in the republic, addressed the Constitutional Court. 
  
The politicians lead by the mayor of Riga Nil Ushakov want to question not only the amendments to the law on education, but also the consecutive shifting to the Latvian language at state schools. 

According to the politicians the decision leads to the reduction of national minorities in the educational institutions. Besides, they believe that the law violates several articles of the constitution at once.  

On April 2 the Latvia's president Raimonds Vejonis approved the law, which eliminates education in the Russian language in the country. From 2020/21 all Russian schools are supposed to teach only in the Latvian language. 

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