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.

• Saeima decides whether to support resignation of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs Girts Valdis Kristovskis
• MP Visvaldis Lacis elected to the post of the Head of the parliamentary Commission on Implementation of Citizenship Law
• Vesti Segodnya prints an interview with a head of the Russian NGO in Jekabpils Rodnik

Today, the Saeima decides whether to support resignation of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs Girts Valdis Kristovskis because of his email exchange with radical nationalist Aiavrs Slucis. In the meantime, another email from Mr. Slucis with which Mr. Kristovskis also agrees got published yesterday. In the email, Mr. Slucis states that all decisions of granting Latvian citizenship after 1991 should be frozen and reviewed with an aim to annul the majority of them; all school should be only with Latvian language of instructions; repatriation of ethnic Russians should be actively supported etc.

Today, the Saeima decides whether to support resignation of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs Girts Valdis Kristovskis because of his email exchange with radical nationalist Aiavrs Slucis. In the meantime, another email from Mr. Slucis with which Mr. Kristovskis also agrees got published yesterday. In the email, Mr. Slucis states that all decisions of granting Latvian citizenship after 1991 should be frozen and reviewed with an aim to annul the majority of them; all school should be only with Latvian language of instructions; repatriation of ethnic Russians should be actively supported etc. Telegraf, Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Diena, Neatkariga, Latvijas Avize

The MP Visvaldis Lacis representing nationalists’ union For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM-All for Latvia! and a former Waffen SS legionnaire, was elected to the post of the Head of the parliamentary Commission on Implementation of Citizenship Law.

The MP Visvaldis Lacis representing nationalists union For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM-All for Latvia! and a former Waffen SS legionnaire, was elected to the post of the Head of the parliamentary Commission on Implementation of Citizenship Law. Telegraf, Vesti Segodnya

Vesti Segodnya prints an interview with a head of the Russian NGO in Jekabpils Rodnik Natalja Cehova. Mrs. Cehova complains that state funding is unfairly too small to insure activities of ethnic minorities NGOs. Mrs. Cehova believes that ethnic minorities should press for their interests more actively because they are as equal tax payers as ethnic Latvians.