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Minority issues in Latvia

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A bi-weekly electronic newsletter
Published by the Latvian Human Rights Committee (F.I.D.H.)
Issued since June 1999

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- The Council of Europe closes the monitoring procedure of Latvia - News from the Saeima - The first signboards in Russian in Riga - Deputy candidates cannot pass their language exam - Media and minority languages - Possible ratification of the Framework Convention discussed, reservations proposed - The National Program - Ratification of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities rejected again - The European Court of Human Rights declares admissible application in respect of language requirements for deputy candidates - One more private radio punished for violation of - Discussion about ratification of FCNM continues - Can anything stop the minority education reform? - The only pro-minority parliamentary faction splits - News of legislation: more restrictions for non-citizens? - Minister for Interior: minorities are more "criminalized"? - Application on "education reform 2004" declared inadmissible by ECHR - Chairman of the Board of the Society Integration Foundation elected - Latvian non-citizens in the EU: non-citizens of the EU? - "Eurovision" song contest to be translated into Latvian? - Use of languages in municipal councils under control - Latvian language training courses for naturalisation applicants - The Conception of the Ombudsman institution in Latvia is elaborated - National Human Rights Office on the right to use minority language before the Court - News of law-making - Next controversy over personal name spelling - 'Yurmala's News' in Russian will be published again - Speaker of the Parliament attacks foreign experts - News of law-making
- 'Education reform 2004' - the problem getting hot - Non-citizens in the EU: Minister Muiznieks discovers 'secret of Polichinelle' - Latvian language courses: free of charge for naturalisation applicants - Minority education reform: pros and cons - Our commentary - New regulations on naturalisation procedures - Will the elementary school graduates receive the state language proficiency certificate? - News from the Saeima - EU Commission Delegation Says The Latvian Law on Education is Ok - Repercussions of the Vieda competition - The Prime Minister Andris Berzinsh asked the Constitution Defence Bureau and the Security Police to evaluate the letter. - Non-citizens' future in the European Union - The education - Youth protests against the education 'problem 2004' - UN Human Rights Committee finds violations in Latvia's treatment of national minority candidate - The case of 'language quotas' in audiovisual media has been brought before the Constitutional Court - The Government amends the Regulations on naturalisation - The meeting of the Latvian SS-Waffen legion - A monument as an apple of discord - A new portal of public politics - Education Minister Karlis Greishkalns: 'Learning in Latvian is good for Russians' - The third issue of the nationalistic book - The Society Integration Foundation is to be created soon
- Ratification of the Framework Convention still discussed - Two minority MPs may be summoned to the Prosecutor's Office - The complaint on 'language quotas' in audiovisual media dismissed - Latvian language training courses for naturalisation applicants - Competition for drafting the De-Colonisation Law announced by notorious extreme group - First reactions to the EU Accession Monitoring report - The government reacts to the UN Human Rights Committee's opinion - 47 Latvia's Roma are not allowed to enter Estonia - 10th anniversary of division into citizens and non-citizens - A human rights activist remains a member of Latvia's delegation in PACE - Ruling party speaks strongly against ratification of the Framework Convention - GONGO welcomed: Representatives of NGOs in the Society Integration Foundation are named - New members of the National Radio and Television Council - Language requirements for deputy candidates retained - NGO for support of minority education: the first achievement at the state level - Minority youth NGO continues its protest actions - A 'yellow' newspaper publishes a special issue about Russians in Latvia - State language regulations amended: follow-up to the 'Ignatane case' - Prospects of minority education in Latvia discussed in Daugavpils - Chairperson of the Latvian PACE delegation on the OSCE and minority protection - Extra examinations for minority students at the University of Latvia: a discriminatory pattern? - The President gets involved in the debate over the language requirements for deputy candidates - Parents' conference: Russian-language education should be retained - Security Police monitors activities of the 'Russian-speaking organisations' - Latvia’s media: serving integration or disintegration of the society?