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.

Press Report

Rolands Petersons, a journalist of

Rolands Petersons, a journalist of Neatkariga discusses important legislative acts which have to be adopted by the present parliament before the new Saeima starts its work on 3 November. Among the laws to be adopted there are the State Language law which will be discussed on 28 September and the amendments to the Satversme (Constitution) which also are ready for the final reading. Diena

On Saturday the representatives of the movement

On Saturday the representatives of the movement For Equality and several Russian public organisations continued collecting signatures in support of education in the native language. Within an hour they managed to collect some 15,000 signatures. The leader of the movement For Equality Tatjana Zhdanok informed the SM that the movement plans to organise a meeting in support of education in the native language on 1 October.

All Monday newspapers publish articles about the international conference ”Ethnic Minorities, International Co-operation and Security in the Baltic Region: Role of Political Parties” which was organised by the Legal Research Institution in co-operation with the

All Monday newspapers publish articles about the international conference Ethnic Minorities, International Co-operation and Security in the Baltic Region: Role of Political Parties which was organised by the Legal Research Institution in co-operation with the Peoples Conformity Party and the Russian Public Union JaBloko. The Latvias political spectrum was limited to the Peoples Conformity Party, the Latvian Socialist Party, Russian Party, and the movement For Equality. Among the participants there were the former advisor to the Russian President Mr. Georgy Satarov, Ambassadors of Russia, the Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, the head of the OSCE Mission, as well as politicians of state and municipal level from Baltic States Russia, and Germany. The participants of the conference passed a resolution which emphasised the need for co-operation between representatives of ethnic minorities, and first of all the Russian minorities, of three Baltic states, when establishing the contacts between deputies of parliaments and municipalities, and preparing the educational conception for national minority schools in the Baltics. Diena, Neatkariga, Chas