Book donations from Russia have touched a raw nerve in Latvia, as Katya Cengel reports. With the approaching election everything has become political. The education of children, long used as a means of ideological control, is the latest issue to reach the battlefield. In Latvia, there are Russian language schools and Latvian schools, a distinction the government hopes to slowly wipe away. Good luck. The newest controversy, the donation of Russian textbooks to Russian schools in Latvia, has pushed schools further apart.Irrespective of the language of instruction, Latvian schools are in desp...
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