Ibid., page 127. Naturalisation data as on 01/01/2013
8
In both groups, underage persons (about 13 %) were excluded.
9
Data on Polish schools in Lithuania and Latvia are taken from the corresponding Wikipedia articles.
10
Vladimir Buzayev. Legal status …, paragraph 3.1.
11
Nikolai Kabanov. “Secrets of Estonian miracle. They are in control over the enforcement structures and mass media”, Vesti Segodnya, issue 191 of 28 November 2012, http://www.vesti.lv/article/227516
12
“Lithuanian Parliament passes law for Lithuanising ethnic minority schools. NEWS AGENCY REGNUM, 17 March 2011 www.regnum.ru/news/1384793.html
13
“Ministry of Interior of Poland: The decisions of the Lithuanian government lead to forced assimilation of ethnic Poles.” NEWS AGENCY REGNUM, 17 March 2011 http://www.regnum.ru/news/1387092.html
14
AGREEMENT BETWEEN GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA AND GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND ON CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION of 29 March 2006, Article 5. An earlier version of the agreement with similar title and wording was signed back on 1 July 1992.
15
For example, see: Maxim Reva: Medvedev makes Russia accomplice to crime against ethnic Russians in Estonia – http://regnum.ru/news/polit/1686051.html
16
Vladimir Buzayev. Legal status …, page 89. Absolute data on population and schoolchildren numbers are taken from the Central Statistical Bureaus of the respective countries.
17
http://data.csb.gov.lv/DATABASE/tautassk_11/2011.gada%20tautas%20skaitīšanas%20galīgie%20rezultāti/2011.gada%20tautas%20skaitīšanas%20galīgie%20rezultāti.asp Table TSG11-06 (see 11/05/2013)
18
Ibid., Table TSG11-07 (see 11/05/2013).
19
M. Cepurītis, R. Gulbis. Ārpolitikas mīti Latvijā: Eiropas Savienība un Krievija (Foreign policy myths in Latvia: European Union and Russia), Riga, 2012, page 95. All subsequent survey date in this chapter are taken from the above source.
20
http://data.csb.gov.lv/DATABASE/tautassk_11/2011.gada%20tautas%20skaitīšanas%20galīgie%20rezultāti/2011.gada%20tautas%20skaitīšanas%20galīgie%20rezultāti.asp Table TSG11-06 (see 11/05/2013)
21
Letter of the Deputy Director of the Central Statistics Office P. Vegis of 13/05/2013.
