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.

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Russian non-governmental organizations of Latvia issued a statement on the draft Language law and the general situation of the Russian minority in Latvia. The document notes that the term "minority" cannot be applied to Russians in Latvia in its full sense, ethnic Russians constituting over 30% of the country's population. Latvia is doing next to nothing to amend "the discriminating Citizenship Law" and has adopted the first reading of the Language Law that contradicts internationally accepted norms, says the statement. The statement claims the Law to violate fundamental human rights and to be aimed at assimilating ethnic Russians. Russian NGOs call upon the international community to pay more attention to the situation of Russians in Latvia.

Russian non-governmental organizations of Latvia issued a statement on the draft Language law and the general situation of the Russian minority in Latvia. The document notes that the term "minority" cannot be applied to Russians in Latvia in its full sense, ethnic Russians constituting over 30% of the country's population. Latvia is doing next to nothing to amend "the discriminating Citizenship Law" and has adopted the first reading of the Language Law that contradicts internationally accepted norms, says the statement. The statement claims the Law to violate fundamental human rights and to be aimed at assimilating ethnic Russians. Russian NGOs call upon the international community to pay more attention to the situation of Russians in Latvia. SM