Increasing hours for the Lithuanian language in minority schools: why and how? On 24 July 2018, three members of the conservative (TS-LKD) faction in the Lithuanian Seimas[1] registered a law [...]
Leonid Smilovitsky: Jewish places of memory in Belarus have a huge educational potential Belarus and Israel have much in common. Among the founding fathers of the State of Israel and [...]
Disputing with Orbán: why Ukraine's arguments are challenged? On 2 August 2018, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine issued a comment on “anti-Ukrainian expressions of the Hungarian authorities”. This was another [...]
Minority language education in Russia: enforcing the voluntary teaching of non-Russian languages On 19 June 2018, the draft law on the voluntary teaching of non-Russian languages passed the first reading [...]
Boriss Cilevičs: counter-propaganda measures must fully comply with the human rights obligations On 26 April 2018, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on countering [...]
Inconsistent foundations: why Huntington was wrong about Belarus? In his famous book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Samuel P. Huntington [1] attributed Belarus to the [...]
Karakalpakstan: a little-known autonomy in the post-Soviet Central Asia Following the series of publications on territorial autonomy, ICELDS asked Dr. Igor Savin, a prominent expert on Central Asia, a Senior [...]
Minority protection: does it make sense to talk about further progress? When we say ‘international legal mechanisms for the protection of national minorities’, first and foremost we mean the Framework [...]
Preamble of Estonian Constitution: strive towards ethnic favoritism? As lex fundamentalis of a state, constitutions establish legal hierarchy, provide a point of reference in case of legal disputes over interpretation [...]
Latgalian language in Latvia: between politics, linguistics and law The Latgalian language and its dialects have for some time been not only the subjects of intensive linguistic research, but also [...]
