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.

• The State Service on Education Quality will not punish two Riga Russian language schools which fell victims to the journalists’ provocation
• Representatives of the Association of Commercial Radio Stations proposes ban radio advertisements in languages other than Latvian
• Vesti Segodnya publishes an article about a radical organisation the Centre of Gustavs Celmins

The State Service on Education Quality (SSEQ) will not punish two Riga Russian language schools which fell victims to the provocation ofa TV broadcast “Illegal Hold”. At the same time, the SSEQ called the Riga City Council to ensure that the directors of these schools follow all the legal requirements and to improve patriotic education. As reported, journalists, on the threshold of the Independence Day (18 November), called three Russian language schools in Riga pretending to be representatives of the Ministry of Defence and asked the directors of the schools to put posters devoted to the Independence Day. Later, the same journalists repeatedly called the schools pretending to be representatives of an organisation “9 May” and asked to remove the posters as those contain information about Soviet occupation. Following such provocation, two schools agreed to remove the posters. Thus, the journalists alleged that despite the fact that Russian language schools conduct events devoted to the Independence of Latvia, managers of the schools are disloyal towards Latvian state. Latvijas Avize

Representatives of the Association of Commercial Radio Stations asked the Saeima’s Sub-committee on Patriotic Education to set that radio advertisement should be in Latvian language only. Authors of the proposal argued that such regulation would promote integration. Head of the sub-committee Raivis Dzintars and its member Inara Murniece (both represent the nationalists’ union) agreed with such proposal. Vesti Segodnya

Vesti Segodnya publishes an article about a radical organisation the Centre of Gustavs Celmins. Presently its ex-leader Igors Siskins is on a trial for possession of explosives. At the same time, the Security Police forwarded an application to the court asking to suspend the Centre’s activities arguing that the Centre does not follow the requirements of the Law on Public Organisations and Associations. According to the newspaper, on the profile of the Centre (which emblem is swastika) on one of the social networks it is written that it is not normal that ex USSR militarists, KGB agents and their families still live in Latvia and that it is necessary to fight the consequences of occupation in order to restore the historical justice.