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.

• Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities may be ratified by Saeima till the parliaments summer holidays
• Intergroup for the Defence of Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages of the European Parliament did not adopt recommendations regarding the observation of minority rights in Latvia
• Russian official: the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe may renew minority rights monitoring in Latvia
• Chas continues to write about the review of the Jurijs Petropavlovskis complaint by the Petition Committee of the European Parliament
• National-radical youth organisation Visu Latvijai! calls to suspend naturalisation and to implement stronger naturalisation provisions

The governing coalition has agreed that the minority definition should be elaborated till the end of May. Hence the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities could be ratified by Saeima till the parliament’s summer holidays.

The governing coalition has agreed that the minority definition should be elaborated till the end of May. Hence the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities could be ratified by Saeima till the parliaments summer holidays. Diena, Latvijas Avize

The Intergroup for the Defence of Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages of the European Parliament has removed the issue about the adoption of the recommendations regarding the observation of minority rights in Latvia from its agenda. A number of members of the European Parliament drafted the recommendations which declared that the Russian-speaking minority feels discriminated in Latvia and called Latvia to speed-up naturalisation and grant Latvian non-citizens the right to learn in their mother tongue.

The Intergroup for the Defence of Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages of the European Parliament has removed the issue about the adoption of the recommendations regarding the observation of minority rights in Latvia from its agenda. A number of members of the European Parliament drafted the recommendations which declared that the Russian-speaking minority feels discriminated in Latvia and called Latvia to speed-up naturalisation and grant Latvian non-citizens the right to learn in their mother tongue. Latvijas Avize

The Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma Konstantin Kosachev admits that by the end of the year the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe may take decision on the renewal of minority rights monitoring in Latvia. According to the Russian official, the position of Russian MPs that there are violations of minority rights receives a growing support among MPs from other countries.

The Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma Konstantin Kosachev admits that by the end of the year the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe may take decision on the renewal of minority rights monitoring in Latvia. According to the Russian official, the position of Russian MPs that there are violations of minority rights receives a growing support among MPs from other countries. Chas

Chas continues to write about the review of the claim submitted by Jurijs Petropavlovskis, member of the union For Human Rights in the United Latvia and defender of Russian-language schools, at the Petition Committee of the European Parliament. The author of the article, the editor-in-chief of Chas Ksenija Zagovorskaya believes that the EU could adopt norms on the observation of minority rights in Latvia if Latvia hampers naturalisation.

Yesterday the national-radical youth organisation

Yesterday the national-radical youth organisation ‘Visu Latvijai! issued a statement addressed to the New Era, the Peoples Party and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM calling these parties to suspend naturalisation and implement stronger requirements for naturalisation. Chas