Latvian schools may completely stop teaching Russian

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Latvian schools may completely stop teaching Russian

The Latvian Ministry of Education and Science intends until 2026 to oblige schools to provide for study one of the official languages ​​​​of the European Union or any other, which is regulated by intergovernmental agreements in the field of education, the LSM newspaper writes.

This means that Russian will not be provided as an option.



The department believes that this approach will be extremely useful for Latvian youth, as it will open up great opportunities not only for integration into the European educational process, but also make it easy to find work in other EU countries.

The authors of the material remind that the first foreign language in Latvian schools is taught from the first year of study. As a rule, this is English, but it is possible to study another official language of the EU. Teaching a second foreign language in Latvia starts in the 4th grade. At the same time, the choice in favor of a particular subject is made by the leadership of the school, and not by the students.

As a result, according to LSM.lv, last year's survey showed that Russian is studied in more than half of Latvian schools today.

At the same time, due to a significant increase in demand for EU languages, as well as a sharp decline in the popularity of the Russian language, both the Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia and the National Education Center (VISC) receive many requests from parents to provide one of the languages ​​for study the European Union as a second foreign country for their children.

To resolve this issue, the Ministry of Education and Science will develop amendments to the basic educational standard, as a result of which all schools will have to teach one of the European languages ​​or a foreign language, which is regulated by intergovernmental agreements.

In turn, the aforementioned transition period until 2026 will allow educational institutions to attract new teachers and retrain existing foreign language teachers.

It is reported that the department is already conducting preliminary negotiations with the University of Latvia regarding the training and retraining of foreign language teachers.

At the same time, as the newspaper writes, given the serious shortage of teachers in most other subjects, it is unclear where new foreign language teachers will come from.
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  1. +1
    22 November 2022 12: 47
    Preparing future plumbers and cleaners in the EU laughing Well, whoever does not leave and sees himself with Russia will create personnel for our intelligence)
    1. +6
      22 November 2022 12: 52
      Latvians do not need to spread rot on the Russian language, but try to save their own.
      The current rising generation of the Baltic States has now turned its gaze not to the depths of national history, but to the expanses of the Anglo-Saxon world, where the main, and sometimes the only, language is English. So soon no one will need Latvian, Lithuanian, and even more so Estonian in the Baltics, and the speakers of these languages ​​will disappear on their own in a couple of generations. crying
      1. -1
        22 November 2022 13: 07
        Start a training session:
        Across the border is emptiness... There is no one there... Vacuum... There is no need to study...
        Inhale-exhale.
    2. +2
      22 November 2022 13: 53
      Preparing future plumbers and cleaners in the EU

      I was surprised at the lack of meat products from local producers in stores in Latvia. I asked the locals how so? In the days of the USSR, everything was there, but now it is not. They say that after joining the EU, all livestock was ordered to be slaughtered and eaten, and now all their meat is Polish. From the factories of VEF and Radio Engineering, whose products were in great demand in the republics of the Union, now there is practically nothing left. Instead of most of the workshops, there is a shopping center, and the remaining small production works according to Finnish and Swedish orders and has not produced anything of its own for a long time. Fish canning factories are closing.. What's left? That's right - Russophobia. Only she now earns a living there.
  2. +2
    22 November 2022 12: 51
    And I naively thought that there, in general, the Russian language in schools was already banned. Well, they don’t study Russian in Poland and Hungary, and what do we get from this? Does anyone still have some feelings and hopes for the Tribalts?
    1. +2
      22 November 2022 13: 48
      Does anyone still have some feelings and hopes for the Tribalts?

      Regret and disgust. Moreover, disgust is squeamish, because in the days of the USSR they hated, no one forbade the Latvian language ..
  3. -1
    22 November 2022 12: 56
    Too early they decided to forget about us.
    Almost like in a children's movie:
    - progress against banditry, the Stump gang is finished;
    We will remind ourselves.
    1. -1
      22 November 2022 13: 16
      Have you already won Sergey Alexandrovich in Ukraine? Can we immediately start reminding all neighbors at once?
      1. +1
        22 November 2022 13: 18
        Your imagination has become very inflamed, since you are so worried about your neighbors, for no reason at all.
  4. 0
    22 November 2022 12: 58
    Let at the same time ban Latvian and mathematics.
    Why do slaves need their own language and it is enough to count to a hundred and put a cross instead of a signature.
  5. 0
    22 November 2022 13: 16
    It is not the Russian language that interferes with integration into the European Union. Europe does not need another prostitute country, it is not easy for them now)
  6. +1
    22 November 2022 13: 23
    Well, to hell with them! We would have to put things in order with the Russian language. Sometimes you read posts, so mom do not grieve! I am one of the most illiterate Soviet boys (I managed to make three mistakes in one word. In the certificate, "four" in Russian (they took pity on the Tatar) and in chemistry, in all other "five"), and then I go nuts from the "knowledge" of younger compatriots!
    1. +1
      22 November 2022 13: 37
      It seems to me that in the USSR, the Tatars knew the Russian language better than anyone else. And they spoke without an accent.
      1. +1
        22 November 2022 19: 12
        I had a teacher Anisa Fedotovna in the kindergarten. Thanks to her efforts, I, a six-year-old boy, read books of stories about nature avidly and looked at drawings. Writer Bianki, artist Charushin and A.F. Pushkareva and my dear mother made my childhood. Kingdom of heaven to all of them. People who oppose the Russian language are either ungrateful individuals, or the darkness is hopeless. hi
  7. -2
    22 November 2022 13: 42
    Wow, 30 years have passed, and they are still studying. Surprised. At one time there was a lot of talk about attacks on the Russian language. And they smoothly want only by the year 26 to be removed from the program. What can I say - their right.
    1. +1
      22 November 2022 13: 48
      You would do well to know that approximately 30% of the population of Latvia are Russians and Russian-speakers.
      1. -1
        22 November 2022 14: 36
        that these approximately 30% are not in a hurry to return to their historical homeland, if they are oppressed there, in 30 years it was already possible to sell property, business and move ....
        1. +1
          22 November 2022 14: 45
          Is that what you're asking me? What, in fact, owes? Take an interest in them. Handle campaigning for the sale of property, business and moving to the address.
          1. 0
            22 November 2022 15: 00
            I’m not asking, but stating, if they don’t want to go to Russia, then why should the Russian Federation try to protect their interests?
            1. +1
              22 November 2022 18: 12
              It is not necessary to require them to move to protect their interests. Why are you pushing them to move as a condition of their protection? Should your conditions be understood as a demand for the deportation of the Russian-speaking population?
              1. 0
                22 November 2022 18: 17
                the state is obliged to protect the interests of ITS citizens, and not citizens of other countries .... I don’t put forward conditions for anyone, everyone chooses where to live ...
                1. +1
                  22 November 2022 18: 19
                  The state has the right to determine whose interests it will protect. Why do you deny Russia the right to protect the Russian-speaking population, even outside of Russia?
                  1. 0
                    22 November 2022 18: 30
                    And did the Russian Federation defend a lot without sending troops and taking control of the territory?
                    1. +1
                      22 November 2022 18: 38
                      Send such requests to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). I have no materials to satisfy your requests. Then give you a departure, then you complain about insufficient protection, you already decide what you want.
                      1. 0
                        22 November 2022 18: 48
                        you need it, you send it, I have nothing to do with the Baltics
                      2. +1
                        22 November 2022 18: 52
                        You ask questions and complain about the lack of protection from Russia, you and "cards in hand." Well, at least you don’t continue to insist on the departure of the Russian-speaking population, and thanks for that.
                      3. -1
                        22 November 2022 18: 58
                        Can you show where I complained? not tired yet to pour from empty to empty?
  8. Two
    0
    22 November 2022 13: 48
    hi Spratotrakhi once again pissed off to the fullest!
  9. 0
    22 November 2022 14: 03
    Latvia, with its needs, desires, haters, must cease to exist in Russia's plans as an object. Complete disregard for everything that is very and not very necessary for Latvia. For Russia, it must become a pariah country.
  10. 0
    22 November 2022 17: 48
    States that impose bans on the use of the Russian language - the official language of the UN - should be expelled from the UN (or Russia) in disgrace.
    By the way, is the status of Russian as the state language of the Russian Federation legalized in Russia? There was no such law before. The state language of the Russian Federation is not the "language of Russians", it is the state language of the Russian Federation (Russia).
    1. 0
      22 November 2022 18: 19
      I'm sorry, but in the termination article training Russian language, and not about the prohibition of its use
      1. +1
        22 November 2022 18: 53
        Isn't the termination of education part of the ban on the use of the Russian language?
        1. +1
          22 November 2022 18: 56
          Isn't the termination of education part of the ban on the use of the Russian language?
          - No
          1. +2
            22 November 2022 18: 58
            Ukrainian Nazis also say so, you actually did not go far from them, since you are refusing to teach Russian, the largest national minority in Latvia, in your native language.
            1. +1
              22 November 2022 19: 01
              do I refuse? refuses the state of which they are citizens and have chosen a place to live, or are they forcibly kept there and not allowed to leave?
              1. +2
                22 November 2022 19: 12
                That is, you again insist on the deportation of the Russian-speaking population?
                1. 0
                  22 November 2022 19: 15
                  I insist? Are you tired of fantasizing and attributing your fantasies to me?
                  1. +2
                    22 November 2022 19: 18
                    Solely according to what you wrote, you demand the departure of the Russian-speaking population, write that Russia, without the introduction of troops and taking control of the territory, does little to protect national minorities in Latvia. Didn't add too much, but didn't miss out either.
                    1. 0
                      22 November 2022 19: 25
                      re-read it again, if you don’t understand, then it’s not my fault .... hi
    2. 0
      23 November 2022 22: 30
      Quote: iouris
      By the way, is the status of Russian as the state language of the Russian Federation legalized in Russia? There was no such law before.

      It was and is. The status of the Russian language is enshrined in the Constitution of Russia, i.e. in the fundamental law of the country, on the basis of which all other federal and regional laws are developed and adopted. hi
  11. 0
    22 November 2022 18: 56
    Latvian schools may completely stop teaching Russian

    Should we be sad about this?
    1. +2
      22 November 2022 19: 00
      And who are you? Whom and whose interests do you represent?
      1. -2
        22 November 2022 19: 10
        Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
        Whom and whose interests do you represent?

        Exclusively yours. And what?
        1. +2
          22 November 2022 19: 13
          You just wrote "us", so I want to know who they are.
          1. -1
            22 November 2022 19: 17
            Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
            I want to know who they are.

            Well, let's say, should we citizens of Russia worry about the citizens of Latvia who do not study Russian?
            1. +2
              22 November 2022 19: 21
              Then, I want to note that you should not speak on behalf of the citizens of Russia, if only because you yourself are against the connivance of nationalism and Nazism, and in Latvia in particular.
              1. +1
                22 November 2022 19: 22
                Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
                I'd like to note

                And then?
                1. +2
                  22 November 2022 19: 24
                  Nothing, sometimes it is useful to clarify positions. What, in fact, is doing here.
                  1. -1
                    22 November 2022 19: 30
                    Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
                    sometimes it is useful to clarify positions

                    What is your position?
                    1. +2
                      22 November 2022 19: 55
                      The opposite of yours, I repeat, if you didn’t read it the first time, against the connivance of nationalism and Nazism in Latvia.
                      1. 0
                        22 November 2022 20: 12
                        Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
                        against the connivance of nationalism and Nazism in Latvia.

                        Where do you see the connivance of nationalism and Nazism in Latvia in this case?
                      2. +2
                        22 November 2022 20: 14
                        ? ... Isn't it you, here you propose not to grieve about the ban on education in Russian in Latvia?
                      3. -1
                        22 November 2022 20: 17
                        Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
                        Aren't you

                        Well, Latvians will not teach Latvians the Russian language, so what? What is sadness? In Russia, Lithuanian is also not taught - is this a manifestation of Nazism?
                      4. +2
                        22 November 2022 20: 19
                        To prohibit education in the native language of the Russian-speaking minority in Latvia is nationalism, which is already more like Nazism, and you are now openly calling for this.
                      5. 0
                        22 November 2022 20: 23
                        Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
                        Prohibit education in the native language of the Russian-speaking minority

                        Where in the article about the ban on teaching in their native language?
                        In the article they write about the termination of teaching the Russian language ..
                        This is not the same thing.
                        It looks like you yourself do not speak Russian well enough and perceive the text poorly. Or confuse warm with soft. Or just a troll.
                      6. +2
                        22 November 2022 20: 30
                        It is you who are openly calling for the connivance of Nazism in Latvia and are trying to pass off the ban on teaching the Russian language as an innocent termination of education, although in this case it is clearly the same thing.
                      7. -1
                        22 November 2022 20: 33
                        Good. Here in Russian schools they traditionally teach English, German and in some places French.
                        If a decision is made to stop teaching these languages ​​and start teaching, for example, Chinese, Mongolian, Kazakh. Will it be a manifestation of Nazism and nationalism?
                      8. +2
                        22 November 2022 20: 41
                        None of the listed languages ​​is the language of national minorities in Russia. And their exclusion from education will not lead to infringement of the rights of national minorities. You propose to condone the ban in Latvia for the Russian-speaking population to teach their native language.
                        And you know what, stop promoting bans on the Russian language on a Russian-language resource. Go to sites in Latvian and practice eloquence there, I'm sure you will find like-minded people there.
                      9. -1
                        22 November 2022 20: 46
                        Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
                        for the Russian-speaking population to learn their native language.

                        There is not a word in the article about the prohibition for Russian-speakers to learn their native language.
                        Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich
                        Visit websites in Latvian

                        I don't speak Latvian, I won't be interested there.
  12. 0
    23 November 2022 14: 19
    Briefly speaking. I understood from this article that in 2026 we will have to conduct NWO in Latvia.
    Ahhh, I thought I'd take a break.

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