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.

• More than 100 graves got desecrated in the Riga Jewish cemetery
• MP Valerijs Kravcovs is planning to leave the parliamentary Citizenship Law Implementation Committee

Newspapers reports that more than 100 graves got desecrated in the Riga Jewish cemetery.  Unknown persons painted white swastikas on gravestones. The police initiated criminal proceedings according to article 78 – incitement to ethnic hatred and article 228 desecration of a grave. Latvian high officials, including the President, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Mayor of Riga, strongly condemned the incident.

Newspapers reports that more than 100 graves got desecrated in the Riga Jewish cemetery. Unknown persons painted white swastikas on gravestones. The police initiated criminal proceedings according to article 78 – incitement to ethnic hatred and article 228 desecration of a grave. Latvian high officials, including the President, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Mayor of Riga, strongly condemned the incident. Telegraf, Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga

The MP Valerijs Kravcovs (the Concord Centre) is planning to leave the parliamentary Citizenship Law Implementation Committee arguing that he does not see sense of working in it and does not want to work under the Committee’s head Visvaldis Lacis (ex-Waffen SS legionnaire and member of the nationalists union All for Latvia/For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM). According to the newspapers, inspectors of the State Language Centre’s are monitoring Mr. Kravcovs, who’s Latvian language proficiency is allegedly poor. The head of the Committee Mr. Lacis also wanted to test Mr. Kravcovs’ language proficiency and requested all members of the Committee to present themselves and was dissatisfied with the fact that Mr. Kravcovs said only few words.

The MP Valerijs Kravcovs (the Concord Centre) is planning to leave the parliamentary Citizenship Law Implementation Committee arguing that he does not see sense of working in it and does not want to work under the Committees head Visvaldis Lacis (ex-Waffen SS legionnaire and member of the nationalists union All for Latvia/For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM). According to the newspapers, inspectors of the State Language Centres are monitoring Mr. Kravcovs, whos Latvian language proficiency is allegedly poor. The head of the Committee Mr. Lacis also wanted to test Mr. Kravcovs language proficiency and requested all members of the Committee to present themselves and was dissatisfied with the fact that Mr. Kravcovs said only few words. Diena, Latvijas Avize