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.

• Constitutional Court: Article 59 of the Law on Education does not comply with the Constitution of Latvia
• Telegraf reports on the formation of the Russian-Latvian working group on the prevention of illegal migration from former USSR countries
• National-radical organisation Visu Latvijai! will be reformed into a political party
• Russian National Union Fatherland will organise a march of the Russian opposition
• Article about the Russian Diaspora in Latvia

The Constitutional Court ruled that the Article 59 of the Law on Education stipulating that the state may provide financial support only those private minority schools, which ensure education in the Latvian language, does not comply with the Constitution of Latvia. The spokesperson of the minister of education and science stated that the ruling of the Constitutional Court will be respected, however, she stressed that funding from the state budget for these schools might be provided only next year.

The Constitutional Court ruled that the Article 59 of the Law on Education stipulating that the state may provide financial support only those private minority schools, which ensure education in the Latvian language, does not comply with the Constitution of Latvia. The spokesperson of the minister of education and science stated that the ruling of the Constitutional Court will be respected, however, she stressed that funding from the state budget for these schools might be provided only next year. Diena, Latvijas Avize, Chas, Telegraf

Telegraf reports on the formation of the Russian-Latvian working group. The main task of the working group will be prevention of illegal migration from CIS. According to the information of the State Boarder Guard, 98 out of 99 illegal immigrants expelled from Latvia last years were from Russia and Ukraine.

Yesterday the leader of the national-radical organisation

Yesterday the leader of the national-radical organisation Visu Latvijai! Raivis Dzintars issued an official announcement that the organisation will be reformed into a political party before the next Saeima elections. Raivis Dzintars states that the main task of the new party is to make ‘Latvia for Latvians…halt mass naturalisation, repatriate USSR colonisers and build-up self-confidence of Latvians. Diena points to the fact that Raivis Dzintars continues to work as a staff journalist in the Latvian language daily Latvijas Avize. Diena, Chas, Vesti Segodnya

Yesterday the Russian National Union

Yesterday the Russian National Union Fatherland filed an application with the Riga City Council to authorise a march of the Russian opposition on 26 September. According to the chairman of the organisation Eduards Goncharovs, participants will demand to return citizenship to all Latvian non-citizens, grant the state financed education in the Russian language and the official status to the Russian language. Chas

Vesti Segodnya features a comprehensive article by the president of the Russian Community in Latvia Vjaceslav Altuhov about the Russian Diaspora in Latvia.