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.

 

Integration and Minority Information Service
of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies

• Latvian Television editor Ilmars Latkovskis about integration issues
• Neatkarigas supplement Mes about Nils Muiznieks
• Headquarter of the Opponents to the education reform will file a court case against the Riga City Council
• Meetings of Headquarter of the Opponents to education reform with parents of school children in seven Riga districts
• Criticism towards the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration

Diena features an article by Ilmars Latkovskis, the editor of Latvian Television, about integration issues in Latvia. The author believes that the process of integration is not developing because there is no agreement about the goals. He stresses the gap between two concepts of integration: the idea of assimilation of Russian-speaking minority and the belief that the rights of Russian-speakers should be better guaranteed in Latvia.

Neatkarigas supplement Mes features an article about Nils Muiznieks, the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration. Anhelita Kamenska, the programme director of the public policy centre Providus, Eizenija Aldermene, the Head of the Naturalisation Board and the journalist Daina Jankalne provide their positive opinions about the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration.

After the denial to organise a public meeting against the education reform on 4th of September the Headquarter of the Opponents to the education reform has announced plans to file a court case against the Riga City Council. Chas

After the denial to organise a public meeting against the education reform on 4th of September the Headquarter of the Opponents to the education reform has announced plans to file a court case against the Riga City Council. Chas

Vesti Segodnya reports about meetings of representatives of Headquarter of the Opponents to the education reform with parents of school children in seven Riga districts.

Lauku Avizes columnist Maris Antonevics criticises the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration for employing Aleksei Dimitrov, the former executive secretary of the Latvian Human Rights Committee.