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Contents 1 "Saules" school 2 Paragraph on "tension" 3 Grīva redirects here 4 fierce jewish resistence?

[edit] "Saules" school

Please explain the meaning. mikka (t) 21:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Done -- thanks for pointing that out! I hope to expand this article substantially soon (until then I'd left the names as they were, but thanks for fixing that, too... I suppose that all of the historical names should be dated, e.g., it was called Dvinsk 1893-1920.) --Pēteris Cedriņš 06:32, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Would you also provide us with recent photo's of the city, like you did on virtualtourist.com? (I found them, and you, while looking for additional information to expand my Daugavpils-article on Wikipedia.nl). Paldies! Fransvannes 21:17, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'd be glad to! I am completely inept at formatting photos for articles, though. So what I'll do is GNU license them, post them, and list them here on the talk page, so that someone who understands layout can insert them. --Pēteris Cedriņš 09:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I've added three current pics to the Commons; someone who is more adept at layout can use any of the three if any seem appropriate. They are: 1, 2, 3. --Pēteris Cedriņš 11:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paragraph on "tension"

This should be edited, to my mind -- that Latvian is the official language in schools is completely untrue (there are only two and a half Latvian-language secondary schools, for example, and the education reform which calls for increased teaching in Latvian in minority schools has actually created very little "tension" here, comparatively, that term being a pretty meaningless generalization). Also, a strong majority of Daugavpils Russians holds citizenship by descent. I don't doubt that not a few Russophones aren't fond of the language laws or the citizenship laws, but this is overly vague as written. --Pēteris Cedriņš 11:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Just a note -- this article gets worse and worse -- the Russian-speaking majority in Daugavpils, which has demanded that Russian be restored as an official language alongside Latvian ...a "majority" "demanded"? How and when, and in what context? --Pēteris Cedriņš 22:11, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grīva redirects here

But the article does not say why. Any good reason? Philaweb T 22:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Griva is now the district of Daugavpils, but was separate village earlier. Denis Tarasov (talk) 08:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] fierce jewish resistence?

Please elaborate, I don't think that's right. 80.230.81.52 (talk) 12:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)