Integration monitor
Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.
July 8, 2000
Press Review
Saeima’s faction For Human Rights in United Latvia and several NGOs will start regular protest rallies outside the Cabinet building this week against adopting the Language Law regulations in the current edition. The faction has seven proposals in regards to how the current draft regulations should be amended: to give up the shift to six language proficiency levels and keep the previous three; not to allow the State Language Center officials to annul the state language proficiency certificates; make the state and municipal institutions to cover expenses related to translating Russian-language documents into Latvian; free persons who have graduated from schools accredited in Latvia from state language tests; allow to use minority languages in public events that are nor organized by the state. Neatkariga, Rigas Balss 07.07.Saeimas faction For Human Rights in United Latvia and several NGOs will start regular protest rallies outside the Cabinet building this week against adopting the Language Law regulations in the current edition. The faction has seven proposals in regards to how the current draft regulations should be amended: to give up the shift to six language proficiency levels and keep the previous three; not to allow the State Language Center officials to annul the state language proficiency certificates; make the state and municipal institutions to cover expenses related to translating Russian-language documents into Latvian; free persons who have graduated from schools accredited in Latvia from state language tests; allow to use minority languages in public events that are nor organized by the state. Neatkariga, Rigas Balss 07.07.
Last Friday, Kurzeme district court in Liepaja sentenced the former KGB investigator Yevgeny Savenko to 2 years of imprisonment for crimes against humanity and genocide against the Latvian nation. Savenko's lawyer will appeal the case in the Supreme Court. NeatkarigaLast Friday, Kurzeme district court in Liepaja sentenced the former KGB investigator Yevgeny Savenko to 2 years of imprisonment for crimes against humanity and genocide against the Latvian nation. Savenko's lawyer will appeal the case in the Supreme Court. Neatkariga