Following the publication on 18 September 2018 of the article by Manlio Dinucci « The new Iron Curtain », the Latvian government, via its embassy in Rome, addressed the following letter to the editors of Il Manifesto. Manlio Dinucci replied and Thierry Meyssan has replaced this exchange in its context.
Legal demonstration in tribute to the Latvian SS.
Letter from the Latvian ambassador in Rome
Rome, 5 October 2018
N. IT-26365
N. IT-26365
Gentlemen
I would like to refer to the article concerning Latvia entitled « The Art of War - Latvia, the new Iron Curtain » by Manlio Dinucci, published in Il Manifesto, edition of 18 September 2018 – and given the importance and inviolability of the freedom of opinion as a fundamental right, I consider it necessary to clarify certain aspects relative to the official position and information concerning Latvia.
In the first place, I refer to the paragraph in which it is affirmed : « […] Latvian President Raymond Vējonis, who, in April, had already approved the project for a law forbidding the teaching of Russian in Latvia, a country whose population is composed of almost 30 % of ethnic Russians, and where Russian is used as their main language by 40 % of its inhabitants ».
On the basis of the information presented in the Population Register of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (last updated on 1 July 2018), the percentage of persons of Russian ethnicity residing in Latvia is 25,82 %. On 2 April 2018, Latvian President Raimonds Vējonis proclaimed the amendments to the Law on Education and the Law on General Education, which introduced a gradual transition to a greater proportion of teaching in the national language.
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