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.

• Newspapers report about a visit to Latvia of the delegation from the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Newspapers report about a visit to Latvia of the delegation from the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of the Council of Europe. At delegation’s meeting with members of the Saeima’s Citizenship Law Implementation Committee and Human Rights Committee, member of opposition party For Human Rights in United Latvia Jakovs Pliners has stated that reservations to the Framework Convention adopted by the Saeima in fact disabled its implementation in Latvia, because, for instance, Russian speakers as linguistic minority are not allowed to submit applications to municipal institutions in their native language. In the meantime, right-wing MPs stated that implementation of the Framework Convention must be viewed in Latvia’s occupation context. According to unaffiliated right-wing MP Visvaldis Lacis Russian speaking residents of Latvia are not ethnic minority group but Soviet colonists. 

Newspapers report about a visit to Latvia of the delegation from the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of the Council of Europe. At delegations meeting with members of the Saeimas Citizenship Law Implementation Committee and Human Rights Committee, member of opposition party For Human Rights in United Latvia Jakovs Pliners has stated that reservations to the Framework Convention adopted by the Saeima in fact disabled its implementation in Latvia, because, for instance, Russian speakers as linguistic minority are not allowed to submit applications to municipal institutions in their native language. In the meantime, right-wing MPs stated that implementation of the Framework Convention must be viewed in Latvias occupation context. According to unaffiliated right-wing MP Visvaldis Lacis Russian speaking residents of Latvia are not ethnic minority group but Soviet colonists. Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize