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From January 1, 2026, Latvia is set to prohibit the teaching of Russian as a second foreign language in schools.
Starting the same date, Russian-language TV and radio broadcasting will be banned in state media. Additionally, the VAT on sales of Russian-language books will increase to 21%.
These measures aim to reduce the presence of the Russian language and strengthen the role of the Latvian language in society.
Russian is the native language for 36% of Latvians.[1]
Democracy is when you remove peoples citizenship, right to vote, pensions, ban their schooling, ban their language, ban their media, and tax them separately.
It was only bad when the Umayyad Caliphate did it.
Wasn’t the Jizya usually lower than the tax paid by Muslims?
I do remember reading that conversion of non-Arabs wasn’t seen as a universal good by Muslim rulers, at least during the days of the early Muslim empire: the fear being that you could convert your way out of a reliable income source.