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• Citizen of Latvia has appealed to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations Organisation with a complaint against Latvianisation of his name and surname

Newspapers report that a citizen of Latvia Leonid Raihman has appealed to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations Organisation with a complaint against Latvianisation of his name and surname (adding the ending -

Newspapers report that a citizen of Latvia Leonid Raihman has appealed to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations Organisation with a complaint against Latvianisation of his name and surname (adding the ending -s) in his passport issued in Latvia. Leonid Raihman already has appealed to all Latvian judiciary instances, however, they have refused his claim. Mr. Raihman believes that Latvianisation of names of non-Latvians is intervention into personal and family life. Chas, Vesti Segodnya