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.

• Saeima repeatedly refuses to ratify the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
• Vesti Segodnya reports on the letter of the member of the European Parliament Girts Valdis Kristovskis to the Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament
• Museum of Jews and the Holocaust in Latvia to be opened

Yesterday Saeima repeatedly refused a proposal of the People’s Harmony Party to ratify the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

Yesterday Saeima repeatedly refused a proposal of the Peoples Harmony Party to ratify the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Telegraf

Vesti Segodnya reports on the letter of the member of the European Parliament Girts Valdis Kristovskis (For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM) to the Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament. In his letter the MP stated that the call of the Committee to facilitate naturalisation in Latvia would ‘boost indifference of Latvian non-citizens towards Latvia and its nation. As reported, the Committee adopted a resolution which recommended Latvia to extend rights of non-citizens. The committee also asked the EU member states to speed up the naturalisation process.

Yesterday the Minister of Culture Helena Demakova and the chairman of the Latvian Council of the Jewish Parishes and Communities Arkadijs Suharenko signed the lease of a building in which the museum of Jews and the Holocaust in Latvia will be established.

Yesterday the Minister of Culture Helena Demakova and the chairman of the Latvian Council of the Jewish Parishes and Communities Arkadijs Suharenko signed the lease of a building in which the museum of Jews and the Holocaust in Latvia will be established. Diena, Chas