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• State Language Centre again fined teacher of Russian language and literature and Deputy of Jurmala City Council Zanna Kupcika for insufficient usage of Latvian language

Vesti Segodnya reports that the inspectors of the State Language Centre again fined teacher of Russian language and literature and deputy of Jurmala City Council Zanna Kupcika for insufficient usage of Latvian language at work. According to the article, language inspectors received a complaint about Mrs. Kupcikas poor language proficiency after she gave an interview to a TV channel. Although Zanna Kupcika was interviewed as deputy, the inspectors visited her at school and arguing that she replies to inspectors questions with mistakes filled a protocol fining her with LVL 40. However, Mrs. Kupcika refused to sign the protocol. Zanna Kupcika believes that this inspection is continuation of her conflict with the State Language Centre and personally with one of the inspectors (who also filled a protocol this time). As reported, since 2004, Zanna Kupcika is challenging in the European Court for Human Rights the decision of the State Language Centre on filing an administrative protocol and imposing a fine. At that case, the inspectors of the State Language Centre filed an administrative protocol on Zanna Kupcika for refusal to speak with the inspectors. Mrs. Kupcika is confident that the inspectors did not have the right to test her language proficiency skills.