• Administrative Court of Riga District cancelled decision of the Riga City Council to ban all events on 16 March
• World Anti-fascist Front is established today in Riga
• Simon Wiesenthal Centre Efraim Zuroff: equating Nazism and Communism is a distortion of history
• Eizenija Aldermane: House of Ethnicities should be established in Riga
• Chas reports about a festivity of Russian language in Rezekne

The Administrative Court of Riga District cancelled decision of the Riga City Council to ban all events on 16 March – unofficial commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires. Thus, an NGO “Hawks of Daugava” will hold today a commemorative procession of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires, while, the Latvian Anti-Fascist Committee will hold a protest action against the procession. The Mayor of the Riga City Council Nils Usakovs appealed to the residents of Riga not to take part in the events. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf

Participants of a conference “Lessons of WWII and the Holocaust” recently held in Riga agreed on establishment of the World Anti-fascist Front. The Front officially will be established today in Riga. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize

According to the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Efraim Zuroff, unwillingness of Eastern European countries to reveal all truth about participation of domestic residents in Nazi crimes during the Holocaust led to a tendency to equate Nazism and Communism which is a distortion of history. Diena

Head of the Education Committee of the Riga City Council Eizenija Aldermane believes that a House of Ethnicities which would gather representatives of all ethnic NGOs should be established in Riga. Telegraf, Latvijas Avize, Diena

Chas reports about a festivity of Russian language in Rezekne (city in the Eastern part of Latvia). The festivity was held by the Centre of Russian Culture of Rezekne.