The Minister of Culture of Latvia announced the need to remove the Russian language from the media.

The Russian language should disappear from the Latvian mass media. This was announced on July 14 by the Minister of Culture of Latvia, Nauris Puntulis.

According to him, in Latvia, as an independent European state, there is no reason for the existence of media content in Russian.

"What does its abbreviation mean? It should disappear completely, that's all," Puntoulis said during a meeting of the committee of the Parliament of the republic, RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

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The discipline will become mandatory for all universities in the country.

On June 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for meaningful and purposeful work to support the Russian language, stressing that "nothing builds by itself." According to him, the priorities in the development of the Russian language should be determined by specialists who have devoted their entire lives to studying it. The state is obliged to support the proposed initiatives in this area, he stressed.

On July 14, Elena Yampolskaya, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, said in an interview with Izvestia that in the coming months a center for the analysis of attitudes towards the Russian language abroad would be launched in Russia. The center is planned to be established on the basis of the Pushkin State Institute of the Russian Language.