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 is planning to punish the State Language Service of the Riga City Council for permission to place posters which do not comply with the requirements of the State Language Law
• President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers: non-citizens feel comfortable in Latvia

The State Language Centre (SLC) is planning to punish the State Language Service of the Riga City Council for permission given to the supermarket “Stockmann” to place posters which do not comply with the requirements of the State Language Law. As reported, the SLC already punished the supermarket with pecuniary penalty for placement of the posters in which the text in English is written in bigger letters as in Latvian.

The State Language Centre (SLC) is planning to punish the State Language Service of the Riga City Council for permission given to the supermarket Stockmann to place posters which do not comply with the requirements of the State Language Law. As reported, the SLC already punished the supermarket with pecuniary penalty for placement of the posters in which the text in English is written in bigger letters as in Latvian. Telegraf

The President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers in an interview to a Russia’s weekly magazine stated that decreased naturalisation rate indicates that non-citizens feel themselves comfortable in Latvia despite the fact that they are deprived of some civil rights.

The President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers in an interview to a Russias weekly magazine stated that decreased naturalisation rate indicates that non-citizens feel themselves comfortable in Latvia despite the fact that they are deprived of some civil rights. Telegraf