Headquarters for the Protection of Russian Schools

Its leaders are Vladimir Buzayev, Gennady Kotov [ru; lv], Yury Petropavlovsky, Miroslav Mitrofanov, Mihail Tyasin, Viktor Dergunov, Vladislav Rafalsky [lv], and for some time also Alexander Kazakov (deported out of Latvia in 2004).

[2] The staff was founded[3] in April 2003 as a coalition of various organizations, most prominent being ForHRUL, and later expanded, involving nonpartisan people.

"[6] As a result, the Education Law was amended in February 2004, allowing to teach up to 40% in the forms 10-12 in minority languages.

The proportion of teaching 60% of subjects in Latvian and 40% in Russian, according to BISS research, was supported by 20% of the teachers, 15% of pupils and 13% of parents in minority schools and most stated that they would rather support bilingual instruction in all subjects; only 15% of teachers thought that no reform was needed, while this opinion was expressed by 36% of parents and 44% of pupils.

[7] The parliamentary opposition started two cases before the Constitutional Court of Latvia (abjudicated in May and September, 2005) with most of its demands being refused.