Authorized organizations advocating for cultural and linguistic rights of Russians in the Volyn oblast in Western Ukraine, told the OSCE observers on discrimination of the Russian community in the administrative center of the region the city of Lutsk.
Members were told on August 18, Special observation mission of the OSCE that " ethnic Russians, are experiencing harassment, intimidation, attacks and assaults on their property, " according to the open version of the report of the observers position 18. 00 (19. 00 Moscow time) on August 21, published by the OSCE on the last working day of the week.
" they claim that local law enforcement agencies, cowed by Ukrainian nationalists, does not deprive of freedom ", - informs the OSCE. According to active participants, Russians constitute 5-7% of the population of the regional center, but they have no representation in the local authorities. Despite the fact that he lives about 1,000 Russian children, no school or kindergarten, not are taught in Russian.
in the message it is reported that the OSCE mission will continue to monitor the situation in Lutsk.
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