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 Saeima’s Committee supported the proposal to forbid foreign language proficiency requirements in the work contracts, unless such proficiency is necessary for the fulfilment of job duties
• Conference “Russian World in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia” conducted in the House of Moscow in Riga

The Saeima’s Committee on Social and Labour Affairs supported draft amendments to the Labour Law proposed by the MP from the nationalists’ union Vineta Porina stipulating that a work contract shall not include foreign language proficiency requirement unless such proficiency is necessary for the fulfilment of job duties. As reported, such proposal did not gain support of the Latvian Employer’s Confederation. Vesti Segodnya

Vesti Segodnya reports about a conference “Russian World in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia” conducted in the House of Moscow in Riga this weekend. The participants discussed options how to unite Russians in different countries and criticized the alleged growth of Russophobia in the EU countries and neo-Nazi and fascist sentiments, as well as double standards regarding these issues. Representative of the Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs compared the recently adopted Preamble to the Constitution of Latvia with a Nazi slogan “Germany for Germans”.