“There are flagrant violations of international human rights standards and of the decisions of the CSCE / OSCE itself ... This is especially true for the use of the Russian language, Russian-language education, especially in Latvia,” RIA Novosti quoted him during the Moscow-Vienna video bridge.
At the same time, he noted that international UN institutions also pay attention to this "shameful phenomenon."
“We have a clear conviction that everything is going to break the Russian-speaking community altogether, break the tendency that the Russian language can and should exist in these states along with other languages of national minorities,” the Permanent Representative of Russia emphasized.
According to him, human rights defenders sometimes manage to achieve some revision of the position of the Estonian and Latvian authorities, but these measures are not enough.
Earlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, announced a full-scale witch hunt against defenders of the rights of the Russian-speaking population in some countries of the European Union.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also called on the OSCE, UN and Council of Europe to respond to the closure of some Russian schools in Estonia.
At the end of April, the Constitutional Court of Latvia declared the planned transfer of Russian-language schools to the Latvian language of instruction legal.