• Chas features an interview with Miroslavs Mitrofanovs on implementation of the Framework Convention
• Diena features an article about an archive material “Latvia under Nazi Burden”

Chas features an interview with the leader of the European Russian Alliance Miroslavs Mitrofanovs on the implementation of the Framework Convention for Protection of National Minorities. Miroslavs Mitrofanovs considers that the ratification of the Convention has not changed anything in the life of ethnic minorities in Latvia. Mr. Mitrofanovs argues that only Russian NGOs are interested in protection of interests of ethnic minorities: “Russians are able to promote protection of their interests only in their own environment and the Russian-language mass media… The situation will change if the interests of Russians become common national interests.”

Diena features an article about an archive material “Latvia under the Nazi Burden” distributed in Latvia by the Russian Embassy. Historian Aivars Stranga considers that the material contains distorted and false historical facts about the Holocaust in Latvia. Mr. Stranga argues that the material is distributed with an aim to show that Nazism is reviving in Latvia.