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The route of the car rally For Russian schools has covered five Latvian cities, Sputnik news agency reports. The Latvian Russian Union (LRU) organized the action.
According to Andrejs Mamikins, who represents the Baltic republic in the European Parliament, they covered almost 800 km in two days and visited five cities where the meetings against the elimination of Russian-language education were held.
Daugavpils became the first point of the car rally. A reinforced police group met the cars there. Police officers searched all the cars very carefully. Mamikins says that it did not prevent from conduction of the rally. "The second largest town of the country unequivocally proclaimed: Russian schools will exist!" - he added.
In the city of Rezekne many parents worried about the their children fate participated the rally. Russian schools studients came along with them, the reform of education concerns them directly.
In Zilupe more than 150 people came for a rally in the central park. This means that the every 10th resident of the city was there. The population of the city is 100%Russian. And they are not worried only by the problem of education but also by the issue of the non-citizens population and by the spoiled relations with Russia.
On the second day in Jekabpils the defenders of Russian schools were joined by bikers, the real fans of roads and adventures.
The auto race finished near Aizkraukle, on a spit in the middle of the Daugava river.
Russkiy Mir
