Feb 07 2012

  • Feb. 7, 2012

    • Riga City Council granted LVL 65,746 for free-of-charge Latvian language courses
    • Movement For Equal Rights will start a campaign on granting citizenship to all Latvian non-citizens after the referendum
    • Radical nationalist Igors Siskins invited representatives of the ultra-right movements from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and Poland to Riga on 16 March

     

    The Riga City Council granted LVL 65,746 (EUR 93,283) for implementation of six projects providing free-of-charge Latvian language courses for residents of Riga. The Riga City Council provides free-of –charge courses for second year. Telegraf

    A movement For Equal Rights is planning to begin a campaign promoting collection of signatures in support of the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law granting citizenship to all Latvian non-citizens after 18 February (the referendum on status of Russian language). According to a representative of the movement, at present, only about 500-600 signatures were collected. Chas

    An ultra-right radical nationalist Igors Siskins stated that he invited representatives of the ultra-right movements from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and Poland to the 16 March (unofficial day of commemoration of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires) events in Riga. Representatives of anti-fascist organisations, in their turn, stated that they will invite the U.S. congressmen to Riga in order to show the procession of neo-Nazis in Riga on 16 March. Vesti Segodnya