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Their constituency is 95 per cent Russian speaking.

In Tallinn, more Russian speaking children (59 per cent of the total of pupils) attend Russian schools than Estonian speaking children attend Estonian schools.

Moreover, he seemed genuinely committed to reconciliation between Ukraine s Russian speaking east and Ukrainian speaking west.

Half of Ukraine s population is Russian speaking in various degrees.

Discrimination against the Russian speaking population in Estonia and Latvia

Furthermore, mechanisms to uphold the rights of Russian speaking minorities were being ignored.

The use of the Russian speaking population in Latvia and Estonia as a tool to achieve political or military political goals in fact puts the Russian speaking population in the position of hostages, benefiting neither party.

The number of State funded theatre companies in Estonia is currently the same as during the occupation period, 10 Estonian speaking and 1 Russian speaking.

Nine of the 120 positions were reserved for Arab women investigators in stations that serve the Arab community and there are currently 18 Arabic speaking investigators, 14 Russian speaking and 3Amharic speaking officers.

Speaking at , called on the participants in the discussion to determine what the Russian elite is.

The Russian delegation is pleased that, generally speaking, the question of decolonization has been successfully settled.

The law quot on aliens quot adopted in Estonia blatantly violates the legal, civil, property, social and fundamental interests of the Russian and Russian speaking population.

Mr. Lavrov (Russian Federation) (interpretation from Russian) I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the delegations of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

This website is the most popular blogging platform in the Russian speaking communities on the post Soviet space.

Russia does not intend to tolerate infringement of the legitimate rights of the Russian speaking population in Estonia.

There are substantial restrictions on the social and economic rights of the Russian speaking population of the Republic.

The act clearly discriminates against the Russian speaking population of Latvia and is imbued with undisguised national protectionism.

In the context of economic reforms, the rights of the Russian speaking population are deliberately and consistently violated.

The schools with Russian medium instruction face the additional task of integrating non Estonian speaking students into society.

The Russian Parliament has repeatedly discussed the situation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is interceding with the Government of Estonia on behalf of the Russian speaking population.

49. At present Estonian is being taught to all children in the schools, including in the Russian speaking schools.

The Russian speaking population cannot count on its share of the State property that it actively helped to create.

But I found a sign for Russian speaking people, and it was the best sign ever to say no.

During the last elections, one third of the country apos s adult population Russian or Russian speaking was deprived of the right to vote for candidates in local government elections.

In 2003 the counselling service was advocated among Russian speaking youths, in 2004 efforts were directed to informing young men.

Estonian authorities and legislative bodies have taken a number of actions to restrict the rights of the Russian speaking population.

The leaders of Latvia are conducting a deliberate policy aimed at destroying the cultural life of the Russian speaking population.

Speaking before the General Assembly on 26 September, President Clinton declared that the United States and the Russian Federation were

Estonia is distressed by the Russian Federation apos s manipulation of the Russian speaking population in Estonia to justify Russian interference in Estonia apos s internal affairs when Estonian national legislation and human rights practices are in conformity with international standards.

It should also be pointed out that Russians and other Russian speaking ethnic groups have far greater options and opportunities to study at institutions of higher education in the Russian language, considering the proximity of educational establishments in the Russian Federation.

Taking note of the human rights problems that affect the significant number of the Russian speaking population in Estonia and Latvia,

Mr. Lukyantsev (Russian Federation), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, recalled that the Latvian delegate had claimed that the statement made by the Russian Federation about Latvian legislation was totally unfounded.

He pointed out that numerous communications of individuals belonging to the Russian speaking population residing in Estonia had been received by the Russian Parliament, especially concerning their anxiety on the issue of citizenship.

Generally speaking, the Russian Federation considered that the Commission had drafted a balanced document that embodied the basic principles of State responsibility.

Another matter for deep concern is the violation of the right of the Russian speaking inhabitants of Estonia to freedom of religion.

Because of this policy towards Latvia apos s Russian speaking population, 60,000 people were forced to leave the Republic in 1992 1993.

Alongside the restrictions placed on the Russian speaking population in the political and socio economic spheres, one of the means of discriminating against members of the non indigenous nationality is drastic limitation of the rights of the Russian speaking population of Estonia in the field of education, culture and information.

Rhetoric regarding the Russian speaking population and the desire to retain some military facilities leaves room for doubt as to whether the Russian Federation has the political will to remove its troops from Latvia.

45. The Russian speaking population feels anxiety about the future and would like to regularize its citizenship status as a matter of urgency.

Some Georgian bloggers, like popular Russian speaking cyxymu , note that Russia s mobilization in the region comes right before Georgia s parliamentary elections on October 1st.

quot Taking into account the reported violations of human rights and discriminatory practices with respect to the Russian speaking population in Estonia and Latvia,

Mr. BERDENNIKOV (Russian Federation), speaking on a point of order, drew attention to the last sentence of rule 128 of the Rules of Procedure.

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