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International findings, concerns, recommendations and local documents on rights of ethnic/national, religious and language minorities in Latvia

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Category: Soviet Latvia (1919 & 1940-1991)

Leaflets, 1989-1991

Bilingualism in Soviet Latvian documents: public authorities and the ruling party, 1967-1987

Soviet Latvia: bilingual documentation on professional life

Soviet Latvia: a life in bilingual documents

Soviet Latvia: bilingual documents on education

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  • Latvian Human Rights Committee (FIDH)
  • Russian School Defence Staff
  • Latvian Centre for Human Rights
  • “Russians of Latvia”
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  • Law on “Non-citizens”
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  • Seminarium Hortus Humanitatis
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  • Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs
  • Minority database on Lithuania

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Aleksandrs Kuzmins (Russian: Александр Кузьмин), LL.M. (University of Latvia, 2010, Constitutional and Administrative Law & Riga Graduate School of Law, 2016, Legal Linguistics). a_kuzmins (commercial at) inbox.lv UN OHCHR Minority Fellow (2018). Best-known case won: Petrova v. Latvia (ECHR). Latvian Human Rights Committee (FIDH) secretary-executive. fb.com/aleksandr.kuzmin.73594

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