Thursday, April 28, 2016

Lavrov: the pace of solutions of non-citizens in the Baltic problems remain low – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, April 28 – RIA Novosti The pace of solutions of non-citizens issues in the Baltic countries are still low. . Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

“They keep saying to us that they are fine – reduced the number of these aliens. But, according to our statistics, the amount is reduced by the fact that people die, some of them are desperate and asked for Russian citizenship, someone just left. The pace of citizenship is very low “, – said Lavrov in an interview with the Swedish newspaper” Dagens Nyheter We are not against their wishes, to wishing to receive citizenship and studied the language of the State, but in parallel all the European regulations require, “

.” to minority language remained in the community, as do the Finns against the Swedish language. In the Baltics close Russian schools, though they have a huge demand in parts of these countries. Links that simply is not willing to, are false, “- Lavrov added

about 16% of the Latvian population are so-called.” Aliens “- permanent residents, mostly Russian speakers who did not receive Latvian citizenship after gaining . its independence in 1991. They can not participate in elections and to hold positions in the public sector A similar problem exists in Estonia -. about 90 thousand people have no citizenship to get citizenship, these people can naturalization to do this, you must pass a written and oral exam.. on the state language.

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