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.

• For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM and New Era call on Peoples Party to form a new coalition
• Russian language newspapers on results of the European Parliament election
• Interview with the chairperson of the board of the Latvian Integration Movement ‘Runa (The Speech) Marina Romanenko
• Poet Mara Zalite about protest actions against the education reform
• Organisation Visu Latvijai! plans to organise a picket on the Commemoration Day of Latvias Occupation

After success at the European Parliament election, parties For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM and the New Era have called on the People’s Party to support resignation of the Indulis Emsis’s government in order to form a new, right-wing coalition. The vote of non-confidence to the current government is scheduled already for Thursday’s session of the Saeima.

After success at the European Parliament election, parties For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM and the New Era have called on the Peoples Party to support resignation of the Indulis Emsiss government in order to form a new, right-wing coalition. The vote of non-confidence to the current government is scheduled already for Thursdays session of the Saeima. Diena, Neatkariga Rita Avize, Latvijas Avize, Rigas Balss, Telegraf

Russian-language newspapers feature opinions of the state officials, experts and business executives about results of the European Parliament election. ‘Because of the education reform implementation, and the protest actions it caused, we have reached an unprecedented confrontation in the society, which ensured victory of the ultra-radical political forces in the EP elections,’ says the Riga vice-mayor Sergejs Dolgopolovs in his interview to

Russian-language newspapers feature opinions of the state officials, experts and business executives about results of the European Parliament election. ‘Because of the education reform implementation, and the protest actions it caused, we have reached an unprecedented confrontation in the society, which ensured victory of the ultra-radical political forces in the EP elections, says the Riga vice-mayor Sergejs Dolgopolovs in his interview to Vesti Segodnya. MP Boris Tsilevitch regards election results as a failure of not only the Peoples Harmony Party, but of all opposition of the human rights defenders. Vesti Segodnya, Chas

Latvijas Avize prints an interview with the chairperson of the board of the Latvian Integration Movement ‘Runa (The Speech) Marina Romanenko about implementation of the education reform and possible establishment of Russian national school in Latvia. Marina Romanenko believes that all so called Russian Schools in Latvia are in reality post-soviet schools, which do not provide deep and essential contact with the Russian culture. According to the chairperson, her organisation is planning to submit for accreditation to the Ministry of Education and Science an educational programme of the Russian national school, which includes 14 extra-curriculum courses, designed for maintenance of the ethnic and cultural identity, in addition to the compulsory subjects.

Latvijas Avize features an interview with the poet Mara Zalite about protest actions against the education reform. Mara Zalite expresses incomprehension of the fact that representatives of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-language Schools still have an opportunity to incite hate in the society, while state officials fail to qualify their actions as incitement to hate.

Extreme national organisation Visu Latvijai! is planning to organise a picket near the embassy of Russia in Latvia on 17 June, the Commemoration Day of Occupation of the Republic of Latvia.

Extreme national organisation Visu Latvijai! is planning to organise a picket near the embassy of Russia in Latvia on 17 June, the Commemoration Day of Occupation of the Republic of Latvia. Latvijas Avize, Telegraf