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.

• Constitutional Court did not abolish the national referendum scheduled for 18 February
• Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Justice Juris Bordans: education in all state funded schools, including ethnic minority schools, should be only in state language
• Diena prints an article on bilingual education

The Constitutional Court did not abolish the national referendum on the Constitutional amendments granting Russian language status of a state language in Latvia which will be held on 18 February 2012. At the same time, the Court accepted a claim submitted by 30 MPs on evaluation of whether the referendum complies to the Constitution of Latvia. Head of the Court Gunars Kutris explained that arguments presented by the claimant are not sufficient to hinder the referendum.  According to Mr Kutris, the Court will review the claim by 20 March and if it finds the referendum anti-constitutional its results might be cancelled.

The Constitutional Court did not abolish the national referendum on the Constitutional amendments granting Russian language status of a state language in Latvia which will be held on 18 February 2012. At the same time, the Court accepted a claim submitted by 30 MPs on evaluation of whether the referendum complies to the Constitution of Latvia. Head of the Court Gunars Kutris explained that arguments presented by the claimant are not sufficient to hinder the referendum. According to Mr Kutris, the Court will review the claim by 20 March and if it finds the referendum anti-constitutional its results might be cancelled. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga

The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Justice Juris Bordans in a publication in

The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Justice Juris Bordans in a publication in Latvijas Vestnesis (official publisher of the state) expresses his dissatisfaction about the fact that such legal notions as Latvia is national state of ethnic nation and ethnic Latvians are the states nation are not strengthened in everyday practice. Mr Bordans also states that it is necessary that education in all state funded schools, including ethnic minority schools, should be only in state language but the native language of ethnic non-Latvian children could be taught as additional subject.

According to

According to Diena, some ethnic minority schools might face problems following the new regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers stipulating that at least 2/5 of subjects in ethnic minority elementary schools should be taught in Latvian language. According to a representative of the Ministry of Education, the recently adopted regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers are only formality because factually such proportion of bilingual education already works. However, according to a study on bilingual education conducted by a doctor of pedagogy Tatjana Russita, there are problems with teachers who studied in Soviet times. Many of these teachers have poor Latvian language proficiency and face problems to conduct lessons in Latvians language.