following recent amendments introduced by the Latvian government. The new rules require that students study an official language of the European Union, the European Economic Area, or a foreign ...

More than a quarter of Latvia's 2.2m people are ethnic Russians, most of whom are taught in Russian. However, the only official language is Latvian. Russia has long accused EU member Latvia of ...

The Saeima - Latvia's parliament - has repeatedly rejected any attempts by a Russian speakers' movement to change the situation and make Russian the country's second official language. In a ...

The official rules demand the highest level ... But it has since carried out a number of reforms that mandate Latvian as the only language of instruction in state schools, forcing Russian-speaking ...