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.

• Saeima rejected a draft law on granting Latvian citizenship automatically to persons who have suffered under Nazi and Stalins repressions
• Sixth international conference „Jews in a Changing World
• Magazine Republika prints an interview with MP and leader of FHRUL Jakovs Pliners

Yesterday, the Saeima rejected a draft law, elaborated by the political party “The Concord Centre”, which stipulates granting Latvian citizenship automatically to those residents of Latvia who have suffered under Nazi and Stalin’s regimes.

Yesterday, the Saeima rejected a draft law, elaborated by the political party The Concord Centre, which stipulates granting Latvian citizenship automatically to those residents of Latvia who have suffered under Nazi and Stalins regimes. Chas

Sixth international conference „Jews in a Changing World” was held in Riga this week. About 60 researchers from France, Israel, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the U.S., Rumania, Germany, and the Baltic States took part in the conference. The participants discussed issues concerning history and culture of Jews, integration of ethnic minorities, and interethnic relations.

Sixth international conference „Jews in a Changing World was held in Riga this week. About 60 researchers from France, Israel, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the U.S., Rumania, Germany, and the Baltic States took part in the conference. The participants discussed issues concerning history and culture of Jews, integration of ethnic minorities, and interethnic relations. Vesti Segodnya

The weekly magazine

The weekly magazine Republika prints an interview with the MP and leader of the political union For Human Rights in United Latvia (FHRUL) Jakovs Pliners. Mr. Pliners stated that FHRUL accepts that the Latvian language has to be the only state language. However, FHRUL proposes to authorise use the Russian language in municipal institutions and courts.