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.

• MP Visvaldis Lacis must bring public apologies to the MP Nikolajs Kabanovs for calling him enemy of Latvia and Latvian nation
• Latgalians demand for official usage of Latgalian language

The MP Nikolajs Kabanovs (the Concord Centre) won the court case on defence of his honour and dignity against the MP Visvaldis Lacis (former Waffen SS legionary and an unaffiliated MP known for his nationalistic views). According to the ruling, Visvalidis Lacis must bring public apologies to Nikolajs Kabanovs for calling him “enemy of Latvia and Latvian nation” from the Saeima’s tribune. Mr. Lacis made this statement during the debates on candidacy of Mr. Kabanovs in the Latvian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

The MP Nikolajs Kabanovs (the Concord Centre) won the court case on defence of his honour and dignity against the MP Visvaldis Lacis (former Waffen SS legionary and an unaffiliated MP known for his nationalistic views). According to the ruling, Visvalidis Lacis must bring public apologies to Nikolajs Kabanovs for calling him enemy of Latvia and Latvian nation from the Saeimas tribune. Mr. Lacis made this statement during the debates on candidacy of Mr. Kabanovs in the Latvian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize

Participants of the Latgalian conference held recently in Rezekne (city in the Eastern part of Latvia) sent a letter to the Minister of Education and Science Tatjana Koke and the Minister of Justice Mareks Seglins asking for official usage of Latgalian language in communication in public sphere, learning of Latgalian in schools and the right to write documentation in this language. Presently, the State Language Law stipulates preservation and development of written Latgalian language as a historical variety of Latvian language, while spoken Latgalian is considered a dialect and does not enjoy protection envisaged by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

Participants of the Latgalian conference held recently in Rezekne (city in the Eastern part of Latvia) sent a letter to the Minister of Education and Science Tatjana Koke and the Minister of Justice Mareks Seglins asking for official usage of Latgalian language in communication in public sphere, learning of Latgalian in schools and the right to write documentation in this language. Presently, the State Language Law stipulates preservation and development of written Latgalian language as a historical variety of Latvian language, while spoken Latgalian is considered a dialect and does not enjoy protection envisaged by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Diena