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.

Integration and Minority Information Service

Integration and Minority Information Service
of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies

Chairperson of the Labour Party Aivars Kreituss analyses whether leftist parties have a chance to be ruling parties in Latvia. He states that in Latvia there is a myth that leftist parties are oriented only to Russia and the interests of Russian-speakers. He states that some rightist parties who won in the 8th Saeima elections used ideological elements and ideas of leftists, which means that policy of leftist parties is topical and necessary for society.

Chairperson of the Labour Party Aivars Kreituss analyses whether leftist parties have a chance to be ruling parties in Latvia. He states that in Latvia there is a myth that leftist parties are oriented only to Russia and the interests of Russian-speakers. He states that some rightist parties who won in the 8th Saeima elections used ideological elements and ideas of leftists, which means that policy of leftist parties is topical and necessary for society. Diena

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga yesterday called on parties involved with the forming of a new government to assume joint responsibility to the voters for the government’s future efforts, and to continue the main foreign policy goals from the previous government. The President requested opposition parties to observe the interests of the state in their work. However, the next Prime Minister will be announced no sooner than November 5.

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga yesterday called on parties involved with the forming of a new government to assume joint responsibility to the voters for the governments future efforts, and to continue the main foreign policy goals from the previous government. The President requested opposition parties to observe the interests of the state in their work. However, the next Prime Minister will be announced no sooner than November 5. Diena, Neatkariga, Rigas Balss, Vechernaya Riga, Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf, Panorma Latvii

Yesterday Riga City Council abolished two provisions which discriminated against the rights of non-citizens. The first provision was adopted in 1993 and banned non-citizens from receiving credits by Riga City Council to buy apartments in newly built houses, which in any case is no longer practiced. The second abolished provision stipulated that if a non-citizen wanted to buy an apartment in a house owned by a cooperative society, a non-citizen had to have an officially registered place of residency in Riga for at least 16 years.

Yesterday Riga City Council abolished two provisions which discriminated against the rights of non-citizens. The first provision was adopted in 1993 and banned non-citizens from receiving credits by Riga City Council to buy apartments in newly built houses, which in any case is no longer practiced. The second abolished provision stipulated that if a non-citizen wanted to buy an apartment in a house owned by a cooperative society, a non-citizen had to have an officially registered place of residency in Riga for at least 16 years. Vechernaya Riga, Vesti Segodnya

Vesti Segodnya

reports more in-depth about the complaint filed with the European Court of Human Rights against the switch of minority secondary schools to instruction in Latvian in 2004. The newspaper concludes that Russian-speakers in Latvia should not rely on Strasbourg. reports more in-depth about the complaint filed with the European Court of Human Rights against the switch of minority secondary schools to instruction in Latvian in 2004. The newspaper concludes that Russian-speakers in Latvia should not rely on Strasbourg.