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Increased use of Latvian in education does not infringe ethnic Russians' rights, rules European court (eng.lsm.lv)

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[–] Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Correct.

In Latvia the reason they are even having this discussion is because when USSR were occupiers they suppressed the local language (Latvian) with a brutal police regime, concentration camps, and the forced migration of ethnic Russians.

So yes - exactly. Moscovite Russia/ USSR started a cultural genocide in Latvia. This is just the fallout