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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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- Application to hold a meeting devoted to 200-year-jubilee of Pushkin rejected - Second reading of the amendments to the Education Law - Conference in Daugavpils on the future of Russian minority schools in Latvia Content - Education law: discussion continues - Riga Aviation University closed - Court declares illegal refusal to permit meeting on Pushkin's anniversary Content - Dispute over minority names' writing - Latvian Association of Russian Culture homeless? - First success with the European Court of Human Rights Content - Adoption of the new State Language Law causes serious concerns Content - The State Language Law not signed. To be continued?
Content - Adoption of the State Language Law postponed - State Language inspectorate fines Molokh - Capital punishment problem in Latvia - LHRC web site coming soon Content - Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Latvia - News from the Saeima - Entrance examinations in Daugavpils Pedagogical University - An amalgamation of two boards will take place? - New Radio/TV Council elected, Russian-speakers are not represented again - Friendship and co-operation? - Does ethnicity matter? - News from the Saeima - Adoption of the Integration Concept delayed - The case of Tatyana Zhdanok still pending - International Day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism celebrated in Latvia
- The State Language Law has been adopted - Latvia does not intend to ratify the Framework Convention