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• Press conference on the residents’ concerns about the plans for accommodation of additional asylum seekers in Mucenieki
• International festival of Byelorussian culture in Daugavpils

Representatives of local government and residents in Mucenieki (small town in central Latvia) held outdoor press conference about the plans for accommodation of additional asylum seekers at the asylum seekers reception centre “Mucenieki”. Representatives of the local government complained that the plan to build multifunctional centre for the residents of Mucinieki was cancelled. The multifunctional centre would provide the services of various specialists, orphans’ court, interest education, as well as provide a space for asylum seekers and local residents to meet. Representative of local NGO stated that the residents begun to worry once they learned that the number of asylum seekers in Mucenieki will be increased from 40 to 200 persons. Latvijas Avize

Vesti Segodnya reports about the International festival of Byelorussian culture which took place in Daugavpils on 16 October 2015. Folklore ensembles from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Byelorussia participated in the festival.