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.

July 28, 2009

  • Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Jerusalem Center Efraim Zuroff does not support proclamation of one date as commemoration day of victims of Nazism and Communism
  • MP Boriss Cilevics criticizes the resolution which equals Nazism and Stalinism adopted by the OSCE
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Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Jerusalem Center Efraim Zuroff does not support proclamation of one date as commemoration day of victims of Nazism and Communism. Mr. Zuroff believes that such action is an attempt to change meaning of unique tragedy of the Holocaust. Mr. Zuroff also believes that Nazism and Communism cannot be equated. As reported, the Saeima has proclaimed 23 August as commemoration day of victims of Nazism and Stalinism in Latvia. Latvijas Avize

Chas prints an interview with the representative of Latvia in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, MP Boriss Cilevics (Concord Centre) about resolution which equates Nazism and Stalinism recently adopted by the Organisation for Security in Co-operation in Europe. Mr. Cilevics criticizes the resolution arguing that Stalins regime in the USSR and Hitlers regime in Germany cannot be equated from the viewpoint of international law. According to Mr. Cilevics the resolution will not have any legal consequences but it might have destructive political role.

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