MOSCOW. April 30 (Interfax) - The Estonian state court ban for full-format teaching in the Russian language in a number of municipal gymnasiums confirms the course for liquidating education in ethnic minorities' languages, Russian Foreign Ministry Human Rights Ombudsman Konstantin Dolgov said.
"On April 28 the Estonian state court dismissed the appeals of the Tallinn and Narva authorities regarding the decision of the Estonian government, which banned full-format teaching in the Russian language in a number of municipal gymnasiums. This step of the Estonian authorities can not but cause concern. We consider it to be another confirmation of the course to liquidate education in the languages of ethnic minorities, including at sites of their residence," Dolgov said in a statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry website on April 29.
This allows concluding "that such a line is being implemented despite numerous recommendations of specialized human rights structures, which expressed repeatedly concern about lack of guarantees for using languages of ethnic minorities as the main teaching language," Dolgov said.
"The current events in Ukraine show clearly to what connivance for ignoring openly legitimate rights of people and bring the situation to absurd can lead. We hope that the European Union and other international organization will draw a right lesson from the events happening," Dolgov said.