approach, the goal of the state policy is the force assimilation of the minorities, taking away the minority families children’s sense of national identity in order to “melt away” the non-titular population into the titular ethnic group. In accordance with this goal, there is systematic discrimination of national minority children, the main element of which is the deprivation of their right to an education in their native language. To achieve this, the state is reducing the amount of education in Russian language for Russian students in Latvia and Estonia. Lithuania is making unbearable conditions for Russian and Polish schools in the country. In Latvia, there is even a ban to receive an education in the non-state languages in private educational facilities. By separating Russian children from their native language and culture, the Baltic countries are trying to cut them off from the source of the language and culture – Russia. Russian educational and research events in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are banned, trips of Russian-speaking children into Russia for educational purposes are seen as political unloyalty. The most hyperbolic form of this is in Lithuania.