Russian youth growing away from Latvia

  • 1999-09-30
  • By Philip Birzulis
RIGA - One thing that all sides in Latvia's ethnic-relation debates can agree on is that the arguments should not be handed down to the next generation.However, a new report indicates that, far from being integrated, young Russians feel increasingly alienated from the country they live in.The Baltic Data House polling firm questioned students, teachers and parents in 50 Russian-language schools across Latvia to gauge their attitudes toward the Latvian language and to government plans to expand its role across the education system. The results seem to be summed up by a mostly negative answer...
 
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