Integration monitor

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.

Сен. 16, 2003

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

  • Russian experts will continue discussion of Latvian minority education
  • Riga municipal police intensifies patrol near the New Jewish cemetery
  • Vesti Segodnya reports about the draft law On Stateless Persons
  • Concept for the establishment of the State Language Agency
  • Book Russia and the Baltic States published in Russia
  • Conflict between leader of Peoples Harmony Party and leader of the new party BITE
Media reports about the visit of experts from Russia to Latvia to discuss minority education reform.

Media reports about the visit of experts from Russia to Latvia to discuss minority education reform. Diena informs that the experts and officials of the Ministry of Education and Science in Latvia decided to continue discussions about education reform in November, debating about education of minority school teachers. Diena, Lauku avize, Chas

Riga municipal police has intensified the patrol around the New Jewish cemetery after an act of vandalism. A police working group is working under the assumption that thatthe perpetrators are young delinquents. According to the party For Human Rights in United Latvia, neo-Nazism exists in Latvia because of support of some representatives of ruling parties.

Riga municipal police has intensified the patrol around the New Jewish cemetery after an act of vandalism. A police working group is working under the assumption that thatthe perpetrators are young delinquents. According to the party For Human Rights in United Latvia, neo-Nazism exists in Latvia because of support of some representatives of ruling parties. Diena, Vesti Segodnya, Neatkariga Rita Avize, Lauku Avize, Vechernaya Riga, Chas, Telegraf

Yesterday a Committee of the Cabinet of Ministers examined the draft law On Stateless Persons. The draft law defines stateless persons as those who are not citizens of any state and are not the subject of the law “On the Status of Former Citizens of the USSR Who are Not Citizens of Latvia or Any Other State” or have lost this status in accordance with that law. According to the newspaper article, there are 227 stateless persons in Latvia.

Yesterday a Committee of the Cabinet of Ministers examined the draft law On Stateless Persons. The draft law defines stateless persons as those who are not citizens of any state and are not the subject of the law On the Status of Former Citizens of the USSR Who are Not Citizens of Latvia or Any Other State or have lost this status in accordance with that law. According to the newspaper article, there are 227 stateless persons in Latvia. Vesti Segodnya

The Committee of the Cabinet of Ministers has approved a conception about the establishment of new Agency of State Language to promote the development of Latvian language.

The Committee of the Cabinet of Ministers has approved a conception about the establishment of new Agency of State Language to promote the development of Latvian language. Vesti Segodnya criticizes this decision, pointing to the necessity to allocate 77,000 lats in next years state budget and the allegedly unclear functions of this institution. Vesti Segodnya

Telegraf features an article about the book Russia and the Baltic States, published by the Institute of Sociology of Russian Academy of Sciences. The author of the book reviews the existence of two informational spaces in Latvia and Lithuania and issues of relations between Russia and the Baltic States, including, russophobia.

Russian-language newspapers write about the conflict between Janis Jurkans, the Head of People’s Solidarity Party and Jakov Pliner, the leader of the new party BITE (Latvian acronym for “Free Choice in People’s Europe”).

Russian-language newspapers write about the conflict between Janis Jurkans, the Head of Peoples Solidarity Party and Jakov Pliner, the leader of the new party BITE (Latvian acronym for Free Choice in Peoples Europe). Telegraf, Vesti Segodnya, Vechernaya Riga

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