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From January 1, 2026, Latvia is set to prohibit the teaching of Russian as a second foreign language in schools.
Starting the same date, Russian-language TV and radio broadcasting will be banned in state media. Additionally, the VAT on sales of Russian-language books will increase to 21%.
These measures aim to reduce the presence of the Russian language and strengthen the role of the Latvian language in society.
Russian is the native language for 36% of Latvians.[1]
When their children need to look for work in Russia they’re gonna regret this. I don’t know the culture of Latvia, but I would guess this is mostly spectacular bourgeois grandstanding to distract from vast wealth inequality and false scarcity and is probably not a sincere desire of the Latvian working class.
@RedSturgeon@hexbear.net, could you comment?
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