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.

• NGO Russian Community in Latvia asks MPs to grant voting rights in municipal elections to all permanent residents of Latvia
• First curriculum for teaching mathematics in ethnic minority schools presented in the State Language Agency

NGO “Russian Community in Latvia” has sent a letter to Speaker of the Saeima Indulis Emsis and to all MPs asking to support the draft amendments to the Election Law proposed by For Human Rights in United Latvia and “The Concord Centre” which stipulate granting all permanent residents of Latvia voting rights in municipal elections. The Saeima will review the draft amendments on 22 March.

NGO Russian Community in Latvia has sent a letter to Speaker of the Saeima Indulis Emsis and to all MPs asking to support the draft amendments to the Election Law proposed by For Human Rights in United Latvia and The Concord Centre which stipulate granting all permanent residents of Latvia voting rights in municipal elections. The Saeima will review the draft amendments on 22 March. Chas

Chas reports that first curriculum for teaching mathematics in ethnic minority schools was presented in the State Language Agency. Director of the State Language Agency believes that the curriculum will be very helpful for teachers who teach mathematics in the state language at minority schools, as well as, for those teachers who teach mathematics to ethnic minority children in Latvian-language schools.