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• A draft law stipulating granting Russian the status of the official language will be prepared by the FHRUL

‘MPs of the union For Human Rights in the United Latvia are planning to develop a draft law stipulating the granting of the status of the official language to Russian’, member of FHRUL and the activist of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-language Schools Vladimirs Buzajevs announced yesterday. According to Buzajevs, the adoption of such a law ‘would solve the problems of the Russian linguistic minority’.

‘MPs of the union For Human Rights in the United Latvia are planning to develop a draft law stipulating the granting of the status of the official language to Russian, member of FHRUL and the activist of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-language Schools Vladimirs Buzajevs announced yesterday. According to Buzajevs, the adoption of such a law ‘would solve the problems of the Russian linguistic minority. Latvijas Avize