“Dictation in the Russian Language” in Latvia, Alexander Filey, are threatened with five years in prison. We demand the intervention of the UN High Commissioner for National Minorities in both of these specific cases, which are evidence of racism in Europe, as well as the discriminatory language policies of these countries, which completely neglect the human values that the UN Human Rights Council is called upon to defend. We demand the UN High Commissioner for National Minorities includes in his report to the 74th session of the UN Human Rights Council a report on the observance of the rule of law and the absence of segregation bias in the criminal prosecution of the persons mentioned above, as well as a report of on the facts of social segregation according to language in Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Considering that the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine and the Baltic countries should be granted the same linguistic rights as those granted to Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars living in Crimea since 2014, we suggest holding an annual regional European Regional Forum of National Minorities in Russia, in the Republic of Crimea, in order to study practices in the education in and teaching of minority languages provided today to national minorities in Crimea.

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