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 not punish the Mayor of Riga for his speech made in Russian language only during the unofficial celebration events on 9 May

The State Language Centre (SLC) will not punish the Mayor of Riga Nils Usakovs for his speech made in Russian language only during the unofficial celebration events of the end of WWII or Victory Day on 9 May in Riga. The SLC initiated a checking on whether the Mayor had the right to make his speech in Russian language only at a public event. The SLC concluded that the State Language Law does not foresee that state officials in public should speak in state language only. However, the SLC will also check whether the organisation which conducted the events on 9 May could be punished for not translating the Mayor’s speech into Latvian. Vesti Segodnya