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.

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• Boris Tsilevich on resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Saeima Mandate and Submissions Committee asks the Latvian Socialist Party to delegate another observer to the European Parliament
• Discussion about the participation of NGOs in the EU Phare project tender in the realm of social integration
• Russian language school students from Riga meet Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia
• Interview with Eckart Herold, the Ambassador of Germany
• Conference about the role of minorities in Latvias foreign policy
• An interview with an author of new research about minority children in Latvian schools

According to Boris Tsilevich, a MP from the People’s Harmony Party and a delegate from Latvia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the PACE has adopted a resolution about the renewal of monitoring of minority rights in member states, which have not ratified the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Tsilevich foresees the renewal of such monitoring in Latvia, which was discontinued in 2001.

According to Boris Tsilevich, a MP from the Peoples Harmony Party and a delegate from Latvia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the PACE has adopted a resolution about the renewal of monitoring of minority rights in member states, which have not ratified the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Tsilevich foresees the renewal of such monitoring in Latvia, which was discontinued in 2001. Telegraf, Vesti Segodnya, Chas

The Saeima Mandate and Submissions Committee has asked the Latvian Socialist Party to evaluate the activities of M.Bekasov, an observer at the European Parliament, who has disseminated information about the discrimination of Russian-speakers, and to consider the appointment of another candidate as an observer.

The Saeima Mandate and Submissions Committee has asked the Latvian Socialist Party to evaluate the activities of M.Bekasov, an observer at the European Parliament, who has disseminated information about the discrimination of Russian-speakers, and to consider the appointment of another candidate as an observer. Diena

Vesti Segodnya reports about the project tender in the framework of the EU Phare programme Promotion of social integration administrated by the Society Integration Foundation and the discussion with representatives of NGOs about the tender. The columnist criticizes the rules of the tender stipulating that an organization can receive Phare funding only if it has, previously, administrated at least half of the requested funding.

Media feature articles about the visit of students of a Russian language school from Riga to Moscow and their meeting with Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

Media feature articles about the visit of students of a Russian language school from Riga to Moscow and their meeting with Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. Rigas Balss, Telegraf, Vesti Segodnya

Telegraf features an interview with Eckart Herold, the Ambassador of Germany, who considers language as the most important means for social integration.

Vesti Segodnya informs about the conference on the role of national minorities in Latvias foreign policy organised today by the Latvian Transatlantic Organization in collaboration with the World Federation of Free Latvians and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia.

Vesti Segodnya publishes an interview with one of the authors of a study on minority children in Latvian schools commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science. The authors lay emphasis on the need to strengthen the ethnic identity of minority students in Latvian schools.