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

• The vandals of the New Jewish Cemetery arrested
• Appeal of the Latvian Association for the Support for Russian Schools
• Non-citizens opinion poll
• Interview with Reuven Rivlin, the Speaker of the Knesset
• Lauku Avize about the visit of delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• Leonid Fedoseyev about Latvias EU membership positive aspects for non-citizens
• Deniss Hanovs, deputy director of the Department of National Minorities of the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration, and Gatis Dilans, lecturer of intercultural communication, on the situation of ethnic groups in Latvia

Police has arrested five young persons, suspected as the vandals of the New Jewish Cemetery. Teenagers confessed that they have been under the influence of alcohol when committing the crime and that the initiator of this vandalism act was a 16-year-old youth who considers himself a skinhead with extreme right political views. The alleged criminal admitted to hating Jews because his Jewish girlfriend had left him and his Jewish friend had beaten him.

Police has arrested five young persons, suspected as the vandals of the New Jewish Cemetery. Teenagers confessed that they have been under the influence of alcohol when committing the crime and that the initiator of this vandalism act was a 16-year-old youth who considers himself a skinhead with extreme right political views. The alleged criminal admitted to hating Jews because his Jewish girlfriend had left him and his Jewish friend had beaten him. Diena, Vesti Segodnya, Neatkariga Rita Avize, Chas

The Latvian Association for the Support for Russian Schools appeals to Russian-speakers to support Latvia’s accession to the EU. According to the leader of the organization, Igor Pimenov, closer collaboration with Europe with its democratic values will enhance the opportunities of all to get education in their mother tongue.

The Latvian Association for the Support for Russian Schools appeals to Russian-speakers to support Latvias accession to the EU. According to the leader of the organization, Igor Pimenov, closer collaboration with Europe with its democratic values will enhance the opportunities of all to get education in their mother tongue. Diena, Chas

Vesty Segodnya features an article about a non-citizens opinion poll, conducted by the Baltic Institute of Social Sciences. According to the newspaper the survey shows that the education reform is the main problem of non-citizens.

Lauku Avize features an interview with Reuven Rivlin, the Speaker of the Knesset and his speech in the Saeima, stressing that Latvia should take moral responsibility for the Holocaust, therefore improving relations between Jews and Latvians, based upon the mutual understanding.

Lauku Avize comments the impact of politicians from Russia on the upcoming visit of delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Leonid Fedoseyev writes about positive aspects for non-citizens of Latvia’s EU membership. Chas

Leonid Fedoseyev writes about positive aspects for non-citizens of Latvias EU membership. Chas

Diena features the opposing views of Deniss Hanovs, the deputy director of Department of National Minorities of the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration, and Gatis Dilans, a lecturer of intercultural communication of School of Economics and Culture about the situation of ethnic groups in Latvia.