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rmind | 9 months ago

"Removing Russian from their list of official languages"? It was never an official language in the first place.

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IAmBroom|9 months ago

In the distant past of the 1990s, it was.

rmind|9 months ago

It was the case during the Soviet occupation and briefly during the transitional period, but otherwise - no, it wasn't. For example, in 1990, Latvia simply restored its 1922 constitution (still in effect today, although with some amendments) which enacted Latvian as the sole official language. This has also been the case with Lithuanian and Estonian constitutions, respectively.

nradov|9 months ago

Right, under Soviet military occupation.