• Saeima’s Human Rights and Social Affairs Committee supported proposal to apply language quotas also to regional TV channels
• Internet portal “Latvia’s Russians”
• “All for Latvia!” and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM propose to forbid employers from making  Russian language as one of job requirements

Yesterday, the Saeima’s Human Rights and Social Affairs Committee supported proposal to the Law on Electronic Mass Media made by the President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers to apply language quotas not only to national TV channels but also to regional channels. The MPs also decided to raise the percentage of air time to be broadcasted in Latvian language from 60% up to 65%. Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize

The party For Human Rights in United Latvia presented an Internet portal “Latvia’s Russians” – www.russkije.lv. The portal contains historical and actual information about Russian minority living in Latvia. Chas

New union of nationalists’ parties “All for Latvia!” and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM elaborated draft amendments to the Labour Law which would forbid employers from making knowledge of Russian language as one of job requirements. Chas