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
of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies

• Neatkarigas supplement Integration about the Liv and German minority groups
• Article by philologist Juris Cibuls about the importance of the mother tongue in the process of education
• Interview with Igor Pimenov about the conference about the Russian language

Neatkarigas supplement Integration features an article about the traditions and culture of the Liv and German minority groups living in Latvia. The newspaper informs that national programme Livs in Latvia will be administrated by the Secretariat of the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration.

Diena features an article by philologist Juris Cibuls about the importance of the mother tongue in the process of education. The author believes that education in minority languages is not an obstacle to learn state language.

Chas prints an interview with Igor Pimenov, the Head of the Association for the Support for Russians Schools in Latvia about the conference on the Russian language held in Moscow.