Latvia wants Russian as official language

http://www.euronews.net/ A month-long campaign has begun in Latvia that could lead to Russian becoming an official language.




With nearly half the country's population having Russian origins, support is strong for the constitution to be changed.




One Latvian MEP pushing for change says the move would have positive consequences for Europe.




"The only real possibility for the Russian language to appear in the EU is to achieve official status for it in Latvia, because Latvia has the biggest Russian-speaking population," said Tatiana Zhdanok.

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[TheZakjiS]

"Latvia" doesnt want Russian language as an official language .

RUSSIANS from Latvia want that . And that's all . Not Latvia / Latvians . Only Russians .

[DarkMassFabrikator]

No we dont!!!

[Orfomed]

Читаю комментарии, не могу понять откуда столько злости.

[Orfomed]

@TheAlexthegreat91 Татарский язык имеет официальный статус в Татарстане, (это делает его коофициальным языком Российской Федерации), со всеми вытекающими, включая образование на татарском. В других частях России на нем не говорят. В Латвии же практически 50% говорят на русском, вот поэтому было бы рационально сделать его официальным.

[1vadimzzz]

Did Latvians officialy appologize for Holocaust that was made in Latvia during the war? All Jews were killed by local population. May be its time to think why all those deportations happened?

[Sun4Niebieskieoczy]

Did Russia officially appologize for all the attrocities that they committed against the Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Ukrainian, Finnish, and other people they are neighbors with? Did they or do they plan on paying financial restitution to the tune of billions of dollars? Do they plan on withdrawing their "citizens" planted WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE INVADED NATIONS back to their sweet Russia? The fact that they even dare asking for Russian to be recognized shows their state of "mind"

[TheAlexthegreat91]

@1vadimzzz блаблабла. Не нравится политика Латвии? уъезжайте из страны.В Латвии официальный язык - латышский,он и останется. Татары тоже хотят сделать татарский вторым гос-ым языком в стране,вот только русские возмущены и против.Так,что, батенька учите латышский или убирайтесь :) p.s. хотя это сложно, говорить русским,что бы они уважали язык и культуру другой страны.

[screity]

I understand their language but speaking is little bit harder, so i wanted to learn better russian, but after someone asked me"How will you survive in ENGLAND if you dont speak russian" and overhearing how they are wishing for Soviet union to come back and retake these independent countries so that they could dominate again, made me reconsider that idea.

Im not saying that all russians are evil, most of them are very nice people. But those "evil occupants" gives us many reasons to deslike them

[screity]

No one is denying them to speak in their language, russian isn't banned. Only thing we ask from them is to respect and know the language of the country they live in. Main reason why they are doing this, is becouse its too hard for them to learn that language, so they are not trying to learn it but making russian as official language so that they woudn't need to.

[1vadimzzz]

Only nazi-oriented narrow minded people who's religion is to oppres russian speakers are against second language. They hate any different view and want to exterminate opponents who doesn't speak Latvian - that is who they are.

[visvaldisX]

This is one of the problems with Eastern Europe. Too many crazy nationalists. Plenty of hatred and feelings of ethnic superiority.

[NurjanArystanov]

@dogmaryjane Yes, minority schools. I read a news that in minority schools children have only 4 hours' Russian course every week and all other subjects, maths, physics, arts are taught in Latvian, is it really like that?