Your previous comment repeated the Russian lie that its the Baltic states' policy to repress or commit genocide against local Russians. This makes you a cheerleader for Russian lies--a Russian useful idiot. It's as far from reality and equivalent to the MAGA cult's belief in a stolen election in the US.

My expertise in languages and language policy is far from confined to Latvia. It comes from:

1. Learning French in bilingual (French and Occitan) Montpellier.

2. Having an Italian father-in-law whose native language was Lecchese dialect and whose Italian was worse than mine.

3. Living in bilingual cities like L.A., NY, Barcelona, Riga.

4. Learning Catalan fluently while living in Barcelona.

5. Working in a bilingual middle school on 120th St and 1st Ave in Spanish Harlem.

6. Lots of contact with Russians, Latvians and Ukrainians who switch back and forth between languages continually--often in the same paragraph. I did the same with Catalan and Spanish while living in Barcelona.

You're a monolingual middle American with no expertise or experience in this area. That you view yourself as equally equipped as I am to analyze language policy in multilingual countries is just laughable anti-intellectual hubris.

The Ukrainians I know hate the Russian empire, not Russian people. That some Ukrainians express such sentiments since they were invaded in 2014 is part of human nature. I heard Catalans say similar things about Spaniards after being invaded by the Franco regime in the civil war and seeing their language, media and culture banned for nearly 40 years.

But it's not Ukrainian state policy. Genocidal elimination of Ukraine's existence and Russification by mass deportation and murder IS Russian state policy. You seem incapable of grasping this difference.