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• Leader of the Concorde Centre Janis Urbanovics criticizes activities of ethnic Latvian and Russian radicals around Russian language

Head of the Concord Centre’s faction in the Saeima Janis Urbanovics believes that activities of ethnic Latvian nationalists against Russian language schools and response reaction of Russian speaking radicals collecting signatures for granting Russian language status of official lead to intensification of confrontation in the society. Mr. Urbanovics believes that Latvian language should remain the only state language in Latvia, while Russian should be granted support and officially acknowledged as language of ethnic minorities.

Head of the Concord Centres faction in the Saeima Janis Urbanovics believes that activities of ethnic Latvian nationalists against Russian language schools and response reaction of Russian speaking radicals collecting signatures for granting Russian language status of official lead to intensification of confrontation in the society. Mr. Urbanovics believes that Latvian language should remain the only state language in Latvia, while Russian should be granted support and officially acknowledged as language of ethnic minorities. Chas, Vesti Segodnya