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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The representative of the People’s Harmony Party Janis Urbanovich went to Moscow to try to convince the Russian Duma not to impose the economic sanctions onto Latvia, 

The representative of the Peoples Harmony Party Janis Urbanovich went to Moscow to try to convince the Russian Duma not to impose the economic sanctions onto Latvia,Diena informs.

The Daugavpils division of the Russian Community in Latvia started to collect the signatures against the Draft Language Law adopted in the second reading. In the official letter to the State President and the Saeima the Russian Community calls for the granting of the official status to the Russian language and the state financed education in the Russian language.

The Daugavpils division of the Russian Community in Latvia started to collect the signatures against the Draft Language Law adopted in the second reading. In the official letter to the State President and the Saeima the Russian Community calls for the granting of the official status to the Russian language and the state financed education in the Russian language. Diena

In order to ensure the effective work of the Naturalisation Board, the government decided to allocate additional 25, 000 Lats that is a half of the amount requested by the Naturalisation Board.

In order to ensure the effective work of the Naturalisation Board, the government decided to allocate additional 25, 000 Lats that is a half of the amount requested by the Naturalisation Board. Neatkariga

According to the MP’s of the fraction

According to the MPs of the fraction For Human Rights, the provisions of the existing Draft State Language Law once adopted in the final reading, will lead to the discrimination on the basis of language. MP J. Pliner (For Human Rights) states that all attempts by the fraction to amend the draft language law in correspondence with the OSCE recommendations are in vain, since it represent the minority. Panorama Latvii

Yesterday during the interview for the Latvian Radio the Minister of Foreign Affairs Valdis Birkavs said that it is clear that the Russian anti-democratic forces look for any reason to force the Baltic States to give up their strategical goals of the foreign policy, namely the participation in the NATO and the EU.

Yesterday during the interview for the Latvian Radio the Minister of Foreign Affairs Valdis Birkavs said that it is clear that the Russian anti-democratic forces look for any reason to force the Baltic States to give up their strategical goals of the foreign policy, namely the participation in the NATO and the EU. Chas

The Saeima deputies doubt that Russia might decide to use the military forces against the Baltic States due to the Yugoslavian precedent. Such an opinion was expressed when commenting the statement by the representative of the Russian Duma V. Lukin that by supporting the NATO military action against Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia give to the Russian communists an indirect justification to possible military actions against the Baltic States.

The Saeima deputies doubt that Russia might decide to use the military forces against the Baltic States due to the Yugoslavian precedent. Such an opinion was expressed when commenting the statement by the representative of the Russian Duma V. Lukin that by supporting the NATO military action against Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia give to the Russian communists an indirect justification to possible military actions against the Baltic States. Diena in Russian