Couponmachine on human rights in Latvia Juris Jansons believes that the state is not obligated for the financial means to contain schools of national minorities. So he replied to the statements made by the defenders of Russian schools about the fact that the translation into the Latvian language violates their rights, informs referring to the news Agency LETA.
The Ombudsman also said that in the other countries of the program of education of ethnic minorities funded by the state extremely rare.
in addition, Jansons believes that Russian children and So created the preference rules, for Example exams in ninth grade students pass in English language and at the same time Authorized other minority examinations are public, Latvian, language.
"in particular, the exams are in 9 th grade children will have the opportunity to take in the Russian language, and from a legal point of view it is unfair. If we are talking about the same approach, it should be guaranteed to all, in particular the Ukrainian children also must be able to pass the exam in their own language, " said the Ombudsman.
According to the last census of the inhabitants, held in Latvia in 2011, 26. 9% (about 557 thousand) of the population are Russians. The number of authorized other nationalities equal to 10. 9%.
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