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Category: Bilateral

Inter-School Convention with Estonia (excerpts), 1934

Article 1 Estonia shall open and maintain primary schools for children of Latvian origin, irrespective of religion, and Latvia shall open and maintain primary schools for children of Estonian origin, irrespective of religion, if the number of children from 8 to 15 years of age required to attend those compulsory primary schools is not less … Continue reading "Inter-School Convention with Estonia (excerpts), 1934"

Inter-School Convention with Lithuania (excerpts), 1931

Article 1 Latvia shall open and maintain primary schools or special classes for children of Lithuanian origin, irrespective of religion, and Lithuania shall maintain and open primary schools or special classes for children of Latvian origin, irrespective of religion, if the number of children from 7 to 14 years of age required to attend these … Continue reading "Inter-School Convention with Lithuania (excerpts), 1931"

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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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