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.
Oct. 3, 2006
- FF/LNIM proposes to increase pecuniary penalties for insufficient use of the state language and proficiency in professional activities
- Aleksandr Kazakov: ‘pro-Russian parties are to be blamed for the implementation of minority school reform
The Saeima faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM has prepared draft amendments to the Latvian Administrative Violation Code. FF/LNIM proposes to raise the pecuniary penalties for insufficient use of the state language and proficiency in professional activities. Chas
Activist of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-Language Schools Aleksandr Kazakov in an interview with the TV channel First Baltic Channel stated that the political party For Human Rights in United Latvia and other so-called ‘pro-Russian’ parties are responsible for the failure to oppose implementation of minority school reform. Aleksandr Kazakov believed that parties placed their interests above the common aim to stop the implementation of the reform in September 2004.Activist of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-Language Schools Aleksandr Kazakov in an interview with the TV channel First Baltic Channel stated that the political party For Human Rights in United Latvia and other so-called ‘pro-Russian parties are responsible for the failure to oppose implementation of minority school reform. Aleksandr Kazakov believed that parties placed their interests above the common aim to stop the implementation of the reform in September 2004. Telegraf