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DISINFO: Linguistic genocide in Latvia
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: ntv.ru ( archived) *
  • Date of publication: December 03, 2017
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Countries / regions discussed: Russia, Latvia
Tags:
Russian language Genocide

DISINFO: Linguistic genocide in Latvia

SUMMARY

There is an ongoing linguistic genocide against Russian speakers in Latvia, and it is moving towards an ethnic genocide as well.

RESPONSE

There is no genocide of Russians in Latvia. The word genocide is frequently used in pro-Kremlin disinformation euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=genocide&disinfo_issue=&disinfo_language%5B%5D=rus&date=, , but it seldom corresponds to the actual definition of a genocide www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.html,

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