• Saeima has refused a proposal to grant the status of official festivity to the Orthodox and Old-Believers’ Easter
• Saeima has refused a proposal to set criminal punishment for public denial of occupation of Latvia
• Kulturas Diena prints an article by academician Nils Muiznieks on possible development of ethnic relations in Latvia in 2020

The Saeima has refused a proposal of the faction For Human Rights in United Latvia to grant the status of official festivity to the Orthodox and Old-Believers’ Easter. According to Chas, there are 350,000 Orthodox Christians and 80,000 Old-Believers in Latvia. Chas, Vesti Segodnya

The Saeima has refused a proposal of the parliamentary faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM (FF/LNIM) to set criminal punishment for public denial of fact that Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union. The FF/LNIM proposed to punish the denial of occupation with up to three years of imprisonment or with pecuniary penalty in amount of 60 minimum wages. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize

Kulturas Diena prints an article by academician Nils Muiznieks on possible development of ethnic relations in Latvia in 2020. According to Nils Muiznieks, development of ethnic relations in Latvia will be impacted by several factors: migration; national policy regarding migrants; national ethnic policy; extent to which social economic cleavages coincide with ethnicity; and Russia’s policy towards Latvia in general or towards Russian speakers in Latvia.