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.

Press Report

Press Report

President Ulmanis asked Guntars Krasts (“

President Ulmanis asked Guntars Krasts (Tevzemei un Brivibai/LNNK) to form a new government. As Mr. Krasts told DIENA, the new government might be formed in a week, and it would not significantly differ from the previous Cabinet. According to unofficial information, the Cabinet would include Valdis Birkavs as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ziedonis Cevers as the Minister of the Interior, Andris Americs as the Minister of Economics, Vilis Kristopans as the Minister of Communications, Roberts Zile as the Minister of Finance, Anatolijs Gorbunovs as the Minister of Environment and Regional Development. Diena, B&B

SM informs that Ms. Aldermane, Head of the Naturalization Board, will answer readers’ questions about naturalization on July 30 at the “SM” editorial office.

SM informs that Ms. Aldermane, Head of the Naturalization Board, will answer readers questions about naturalization on July 30 at the SM editorial office. SM

Gints Ernestsons, Head of the Communication and Computerization Department at the Ministry of the Interior, informed DIENA about a plan to create a data web that by January 1998 would replace the old “propiska” system. To introduce this modern information system into state institutions by January, however, might be impossible, since the Saeima did not approve the changes in the budget that would assign 941, 000 Lats to the creation of the data web. The Citizenship and Immigration Department is currently working on regulations about the information exchange that would become a normative base for the changes in the population register system. Janis Jaudzems, Advisor to the Director of the CID, told DIENA that the new system might be introduced only after all inhabitants would have either citizen, non-citizen or foreign passports. Janis Anspoks, Head of the Computerization Section of the Internal Revenue Department, thinks that the personal tax records might become an alternative to the “propiska” system.

Gints Ernestsons, Head of the Communication and Computerization Department at the Ministry of the Interior, informed DIENA about a plan to create a data web that by January 1998 would replace the old propiska system. To introduce this modern information system into state institutions by January, however, might be impossible, since the Saeima did not approve the changes in the budget that would assign 941, 000 Lats to the creation of the data web. The Citizenship and Immigration Department is currently working on regulations about the information exchange that would become a normative base for the changes in the population register system. Janis Jaudzems, Advisor to the Director of the CID, told DIENA that the new system might be introduced only after all inhabitants would have either citizen, non-citizen or foreign passports. Janis Anspoks, Head of the Computerization Section of the Internal Revenue Department, thinks that the personal tax records might become an alternative to the propiska system.