media. The national language policy must be directed towards improvement in daily use of the
Latvian language, as well as it must provide systematic access to language courses for noncitizens and immigrants.
In order to ensure sustainable development of the unity of the civil society, it is necessary to
implement an education policy that would establish similar values, create national consciousness,
and develop a unified social memory for all of the new generation irrespective of ethnic origin
and language spoken in each family.
Minorities must be considered as a very important part of the civil society of the Republic of
Latvia. The government of the Republic of Latvia must purposefully develop the involvement of
minorities in socio-political processes by providing a definite support in regard to initiative.
Involvement of the minorities in the public administration would reduce the estrangement from
the country and prevent the risk of development of a bi-communal society; support to individual
initiatives from the representatives of the minorities would serve as a positive stimulus for the
development of the activity of the civil society, as well as it would improve economic growth.
In regard to the society integration, it is necessary to develop various measures that are based
on the same values and have a positive potential for unification of the society, for example,
celebration of public holidays and development of common culture events.
4.5. Prevention of the Threats to Information Space of the Republic of Latvia
Nowadays, information space is a wide concept because technologies do not provide borders
for it – the inhabitants of the Republic of Latvia can freely choose their information sources,
including those that do not originate in Latvia and express opinions that juxtapose the national
interests. It is difficult to limit the choice of the inhabitants of the Republic of Latvia, as well as
to control provision and entrance of undesirable information into the information space of
Latvia; and various aspects make this task practically impossible. It is not only a problem of the
Republic of Latvia, but also other democratic countries because such limitations can contradict
the basic principles of democracy – freedom of press, prohibition of censorship, as well as
principles of free market and competition in regard to the mass media sector.
The policy carried out by the Russian Federation includes various means of influence that
help to create a public opinion favourable to the Russian Federation is the main external threat to
the information space of the Republic of Latvia because, in order to achieve this goal, a
consistent presence of the information space of the Russian Federation has been established, and