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.

March 9, 2009

  • Central Election Commission will provide information about the European Parliaments elections in Latvia only in Latvian language
  • Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reproaches Latvia for events planned to be held on 16 March in commemoration of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires

Chasreports that the Central Election Commission will provide information about the European Parliaments elections in Latvia only in Latvian language. According to the Latvias representative in the PACE, MP Boriss Cilevics, the election observers from the OSCE and other organisations several times criticized Latvia for lack of information in minority languages because it puts ethnic minorities in unequal circumstances with ethnic Latvians.

Latvijas Avize reports that Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reproaches Latvia for heroisation of Nazism and events planned to be held on 16 March in Riga in commemoration of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers that such events compromise reputation of Latvia and all EU countries and should be forbidden.

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