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.

• Headquarters for the Defence of Russian Language Schools resumes its activities; first protest action on 6 March
• Reaction to situation in Ukraine: Latvian politicians call to stop retranslation of Russian TV channels in Latvia and close national minority schools

The Headquarters for the Defence of Russian Language Schools announced that it resumes its activities and is planning to conduct together with the Congress of Non-citizens first protest action against transition of education in national minority schools into Latvian language on 6 March. The protest is planned near the Ministry of Education which is called by the organisers “ministry of darkness.” According to a representative of the Headquarters Jakovs Pliners, the planned schools reform might provoke in Latvia the same split in the society as in Ukraine. Latvijas Avize, Vesti Segodnya

As a reaction to the situation in Ukraine, several Latvian politicians came with a call to limit or stop retranslation of Russia’s TV channels in Latvia. Thus, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development Einars Cilinskis (nationalists’ union) called the Electronic Mass Media Council (EMMC) to stop retranslation of Russian channels immediately. Head of the nationalists’ union’s faction in the Riga City Council Aleksandrs Kirsteins also called to stop “Kremlin’s” TV channels broadcasts, close education in national minority languages, and demolish all “commemorative signs of occupants.” Head of the Saeima’s Human Rights and Social Affairs Committee Inara Murniece called to amend the legal acts so it would be possible to ban retranslation of “hostile” channels. Diena, Vesti Segodnya