• Several nationalist NGOs have appealed to the Saeima asking to include the 16 March into the list of official holidays
• Vesti Segodnya reports about a draft Law on Higher Education Establishments which de-facto stipulates a ban on teaching in Russian language in state and private higher education establishments

Several nationalist NGOs have appealed to the Saeima asking to include the 16 March – unofficial commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires – into the list of official holidays. The NGOs claim that the Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires were fighting not against anti-Hitlerite coalition but against the Soviet Union. Chas, Vesti Segodnya

Vesti Segodnya reports about a draft Law on Higher Education Establishments elaborated by the Ministry of Education which stipulates that state and private higher education establishments forbidden from teaching in foreign languages except the official EU languages. Thus, in fact, this draft law will forbid teaching in Russian language. The exception could be made only for foreign students from non-EU countries.