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.

• Second Congress of the Defenders of Russian-language schools will take place in Riga this Sunday
• Articles about the criminal investigation of violation of ethnic and racial equality principles by Chas

The second Congress of the Defenders of Russian-language schools will take place in Riga this Sunday, 17 April. During the congress it is planned to discuss minority education issues as well as the status of Russian language in Latvia, and ratification of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. According to the organisers, representatives of 36 NGOs and 50 Russian-language Schools are planning to participate in the congress.

The second Congress of the Defenders of Russian-language schools will take place in Riga this Sunday, 17 April. During the congress it is planned to discuss minority education issues as well as the status of Russian language in Latvia, and ratification of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. According to the organisers, representatives of 36 NGOs and 50 Russian-language Schools are planning to participate in the congress. Latvijas Avize, Chas, Vesti Segodnya

Newspapers continue to write about the criminal investigation of violation of ethnic and racial equality, and restriction of human rights in publications of the Russian-language newspaper

Newspapers continue to write about the criminal investigation of violation of ethnic and racial equality, and restriction of human rights in publications of the Russian-language newspaper Chas. Complaint about five publications of Chas allegedly inciting ethnic hatred was submitted to the State Security Committee by Saeima MP Aleksandrs Kirsteins. The author of three out of five publications is the newspapers columnist Leonid Fedoseyev. The authors of other two publications are the activist of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-language Schools Aleksandrs Kazakovs, last year expelled from Latvia, and the students of Russian-language school. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper Ksenija Zagovorskaja allows for a possibility that that the real reason behind Kirsteins complaint is several publications of Chas about the MPs private real estate transactions. Chas prints opinions of Saeima MPs on this issue. Diena, Chas