The Congress considers it necessary to inform you that, according to the opinion of its participants, the laws on education and culture adopted in 1993 by the State Assembly of the Republic of Estonia do not correspond to the interests of the Russian language population of Estonia. We cannot accept the situation where, by legal means, our children are left without the possibility of getting secondary education in their mother tongue in state subsidized high schools. We regard them as a violation of one of the most fundamental principles of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights. Possibilities of getting higher education in Russian in the institutions of higher education of the Republic of Estonia are also being cut to a minimum. We should remember that, even during the most gloomy years of the Stalinist totalitarian regime, Estonian youth could and did get elementary and secondary as well as higher education in Estonian, their native language. Why then in a democratic Estonia is the Russian language population legally deprived of the right to secondary education in their mother tongue?