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, 2011
- Nationalist Janis Iesalnieks will not stand in the Saeimas election
- State Language Centre fined a board member of the FHRUL for dissemination of leaflets in Russian language
Board member of the nationalists union All for Latvia!-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM, MP Janis Iesalnieks decided not to stand in the up-coming Saeimas election taking political responsibility for his statement about the tragic events in Norway. Janis Iesalnieks also resigned from the unions board members post. As reported, Janis Iesalnieks in his Twitter forum stated that multiculturalists should feel guilty for the massacre because their policy of islamisation led to insanity of the attacker. Diena, Chas
The State Language Centre (SLC) fined a board member of the political party For Human Rights in United (FHRUL) Latvia Aleksandrs Kuzmins for dissemination of leaflets in Russian language on 9 May during the celebration events of Victory Day in Riga. According to the decision of the SLC, the leaflets had to be translated into Latvian language for the security reasons and administrative control. Chas