Russian FM criticizes Latvian language recommendations

Russian FM criticizes Latvian language recommendationsRecommendations of the Latvia’s State Language Centre to speak only the Latvian language at work will split the society, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Alexander Lukashevich said on Saturday, Itar Tass reports. “They confirm the authorities’ general line towards discrimination of the non-titular, first of all, Russian-speaking, people,” Itar Tass quotes him as saying.

Recommendations of the Latvia’s State Language Centre to speak only the Latvian language at work will split the society, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Alexander Lukashevich said on Saturday, Itar Tass reports. “They confirm the authorities’ general line towards discrimination of the non-titular, first of all, Russian-speaking, people,” Itar Tass quotes him as saying.