RIGAThousands of Russian speakers gathered in a downtown Riga park on May 23 to protest the government's plan to phase out Russian-language instruction in high schools nationwide, the largest protest since independence.Organizers took advantage of the international media presence attached to the Eurovision Song Contest held in Riga the next day to stage what they say is the first of several rallies against school reform.Estimates of the number of protesters varied, from 4,000 to 6,000 by the Latvian-language newspaper Diena to 16,000 by the Russian-language newspaper Vesti Sevodnya.Riga Cit...
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