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

• Comments on the suggestion to abolish the post of Special Task Minister for Societal Integration
• Unknown political party will join the Union for Human Rights in United Latvia

Vesti Segonya presents comments on the suggestion of the Union of Greens and Farmers to abolish the position of the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration. Aleksandrs Brandavs, the advisor to the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration, believes that the liquidation of the Special Task Minister for Societal Integration will have negative reaction from the EU.

Tatjana Zdanoka, the leader of the political party Solidarity, informed that a political party will join the Union for Human Rights in United Latvia and that the Union will not be liquidated. The name of the party is not announced yet.

Tatjana Zdanoka, the leader of the political party Solidarity, informed that a political party will join the Union for Human Rights in United Latvia and that the Union will not be liquidated. The name of the party is not announced yet. Rigas Balss