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.
April 7, 2009
- Baltic Russian youth conference took place in Riga
- Lithuania wants to take part in Kononov case
- SS legionaries as the topic for the European Parliament elections
Vesti Segodnya reports that Lithuania expressed its will to participate as a third party in the appeal process launched by Latvia in the case of Kononov v. Latvia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Lithuanian government wants to present its own remarks concerning evaluation of legal and historical aspects of the Second World War for the Baltic States. As reported, Latvia appealed the ECHR judgment in the case Kononov v. Latvia which established that Latvia violated Article 7 (no punishment without law) of the European Convention on Human Rights and awarded Kononov 30 000 Euros in respect of non-pecuniary damage.
Vesti Segodnya also reports that political party Everything for Latvia as part of the EP election campaign will request to exonerate Latvian and Estonian SS legionaries at the European level. The newspaper anticipates that most likely this party will not be elected to the European Parliament.