• EC Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban has arrived to Riga with an aim to get acquainted with language situation in Latvia
• Riga Regional Court has acquitted the activist of Latvian National Bolsheviks Vladimir Linderman
• Chief economist of the World Bank Pradeep Mitra: large scale influx of guest workers is vitally necessary for East European countries including Latvia
• Telegraf reports that the members of the Saeima’s faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM might propose to re-examine Latvian language proficiency of Russian speakers

The EC Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban has arrived to Riga with an aim to get acquainted with language situation in Latvia and to promote development of multilingualism as a tool of communication and raise of competitiveness. Chas, Telegraf

Yesterday, the Riga Regional Court has acquitted the activist of Latvian National Bolsheviks Vladimir Linderman. As reported, Vladimir Linderman was accused of calls to over through the Latvian government by force and plotting an attempt on life of the ex-President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga in 2002. However, later in the process, Mr. Linderman was charged only with keeping of explosives at home. Vladimir Linderman considers that the case against him was politically fabricated. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf, Latvijas Avize, Diena, NRA

According to the chief economist of the World Bank Pradeep Mitra, large scale influx of guest workers is vitally necessary for East European countries including Latvia to save their economics from unavoidable recession related with acute shortage of labour force. Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf

Telegraf reports that following recent toughening of Estonian language legislation, the members of the Saeima’s faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM might propose to re-examine Latvian language proficiency of Russian speakers. Politicians allege that state language certificates of many holders do not correspond to their actual language proficiency skills and large number of residents has fake certificates.