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.

June 18, 2011

  • Interview with the leader of the nationalists party All for Latvia!, MP Raivis Dzintars
  • State Language Centre asks to explain why web site of some organisations are only in Russian language
Weekly magazine

Weekly magazine Sestdiena prints an interview with the leader of the nationalists party All for Latvia!, MP Raivis Dzintars. Although the collection of signatures for support of the Constitutional Amendments foreseeing transition of all state funded schools only into Latvian language failed, Mr. Dzintars believes the campaign for the collection of signatures was a success for All for Latvia!. Mr. Dzintars argues that their initiative was supported by about 120,000 persons which is significantly more than the number of persons voted for All for Latvia! at the last Saeimas elections (74,000 voted for the party at the elections).

Vesti Segodnya reports that the State Language Centre (SLC) asked to explain the head of the NGO Motherland why its web site is only in Russian language. The same explanations were asked from one of the initiators of the collection of signatures for support of Russian language as the second official in Latvia Jevgenijs Osipovs about the web site publishing information about the initiative. According to the newspaper, the SLC received complains about mentioned web sites.

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