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
of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies

• MP Yakov Pliner left the Peoples Harmony Party
• Chas reports about the visit of Mr. Paul-Erik Rummo, Minister for Population and Ethnic Affairs of Estonia
• Riga City Council denied request resubmitted by the opponents of the education reform, to organise protest meeting

MP Yakov Pliner left the People’s Harmony Party. Yakov Pliner will be the Chairman of the board of the new political party “Free Choice in People’s Europe” (Brîva izvçle tautu Eiropâ, Latvian acronym BITE). The party will join the group of MPs of the political coalition For Human Rights in United Latvia.

MP Yakov Pliner left the Peoples Harmony Party. Yakov Pliner will be the Chairman of the board of the new political party Free Choice in Peoples Europe (Brîva izvçle tautu Eiropâ, Latvian acronym BITE). The party will join the group of MPs of the political coalition For Human Rights in United Latvia. Diena, Neatkariga, Telegraf, Vechernaya Riga, Vesti Segodnya

Chas reports about the visit to Riga of the Minister for Population and Ethnic Affairs of Estonia, Mr. Paul-Erik Rummo. Praising the achievements of Naturalisation Board of Latvia, he noted that Latvia and Estonia have many common problems with regards to integration. Minister informed that in Estonia, in the regions where there are many Russian-speakers, they officially have the right to speak Russian at the municipal level. Telegraf

Riga City Council denied the request, resubmitted by the Latvian Association for the Support for Russian Schools, to organise the protest meeting against education reform on September 4th near the monument of the Latvian poet Janis Rainis, motivating this rejection with the argument that five MPs of Solidarity party plan to organise a meeting with their electorate on the same date and at the same location.

Riga City Council denied the request, resubmitted by the Latvian Association for the Support for Russian Schools, to organise the protest meeting against education reform on September 4th near the monument of the Latvian poet Janis Rainis, motivating this rejection with the argument that five MPs of Solidarity party plan to organise a meeting with their electorate on the same date and at the same location. Chas