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.

• State Language Centre will continue inspections for state language proficiency of municipal deputies in 2010
• Nationalistically-minded ethnic Latvian teachers united in union which demands for full transition of all state funded schools to teaching in Latvian language

 

According to the head of the Language Control Department of the State Language Centre (SLC) Antons Kursitis, the Centre will continue inspections for state language proficiency of municipal deputies in 2010. The SLC already punished several municipal deputies for insufficient state language proficiency since 1 September 2009. According to Mr. Kursitis, recent inspections in the Jurmala and Riga City Councils did not reveal any violations because the deputies named in complaints received by the SLC have sufficient language proficiency. Chas

Vesti Segodnya reports that nationalistically-minded ethnic Latvian teachers united in union which demands for full transition of all state funded schools to teaching in Latvian language. The union considers that if such principle will be implemented in kindergartens in three years it will be possible to implement it in primary schools and in other three years in elementary schools.