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.

Integration and Minority Information Service

Integration and Minority Information Service
of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies

• Interview with the head of the Union of Greens and Farmers Saeima faction Augusts Brigmanis
• Russian-language newspapers focus on the statement about minority schools of the head of the New Era Saeima faction Krisjanis Karins

Lauku Avize

interviews the head of the Union of Greens and Farmers Saeima faction Augusts Brigmanis. When asked what should be the top priority of the Latvian President, Augusts Brigmanis says that the President should try to foster social integration in Latvia. He states that Latvia needs those young people who were born and grew up in Latvia but still have not naturalised. Brigmanis notes that his party does not want to be too nationalistic.

Vechernaya Riga, Chas, Vesti Segodnya

quote the statement of the head of the New Era Saeima faction Krishjanis Karins from his interview with Lauku Avize our government has full rights to allot nothing for those schools where classes are not held in the Latvian language. We do not have to provide funding for schools where subjects are not taught in Latvian. Newspapers conclude that it is the stance of the whole government.