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• Party "For Native Language" collects signatures for obligatory provision of instructions in Russian language to medications sold in Latvia
• Court accepted a claim on refusal to write original spelling of a child’s name in the birth certificate

Vesti Segodnya reports about a collection of signatures initiated by a member of the political party For Native Language Illarions Girs supporting obligatory provision of instructions in Russian language to medications sold in Latvia. At present, the legal acts stipulate obligatory instructions in Latvian language only.  According to the initiator of the proposal, instructions to medications provide very important information for people and misunderstanding about the usage of medications can cause serious damage to health. Thus, Russian speaking residents are subjected to higher risk of damage to health due to wrong usage of medication. The signatures are collected through the platform of public initiatives manabalss.lv.

The Liepaja Administrative Court accepted a claim against the Civil Registry Office who refused to issue a birth certificate with undistorted spelling of the name and surname of a newborn child. The parents gave their child traditional Russian name "Miron" and wanted to write it in the birth certificate without Latvian ending "–s" as it makes the name consonant with the word “mironis” which means “dead man” in Latvian language. Due to the absence of the birth certificate parents cannot officially register the child in order to receive benefits, health care, join the queue for kindergarten. Vesti Segodnya