19/04/2021 | 19:17:11 The Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities is a highly important document of the Council of Europe. It is very important for the Assembly to maintain it. I'd like to make a few points on the protection of national minority languages in the education system of my own country, Latvia. Latvia is successfully balancing the maintenance of the mother tongue of national minorities in the education system with support for better proficiency of all students in the national... 24/06/2019 | 18:51:32 Ladies and gentlemen, I have heard many arguments today in favour of supporting this report because, as many of my colleagues have said, they think that if we support this report then Russian citizens will still be able to have recourse to the Court when human rights violations happen, and we will be in this way able to protect them. I'm skeptical about this given the fact that the Russian Constitutional Court has basically passed a statement saying that only if in the Court's opinion those...