Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• MP Ainars Slesers: Latvian citizenship could be sold for 1 million euros
• Unknown persons placed a poster with an image of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires inside the Saeimas lobby
• Vesti Segodnya reports about a book Red Bubbles edited by nationalist Arnolds Berzs

Leader of the party Latvia’s First Party/Latvia’s Way, MP Ainars Slesers stated that Latvian citizenship could be sold for 1 million euros to foreigners in order to support country’s economy. Mr. Slesers believes that it is better to attract to Latvia wealthy foreigners rather than wait for refugees and third-country nationals. The statement provoked negative reaction among many Latvian politicians and experts. The President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers stated that Latvian citizenship cannot be sold because it is impossible to buy loyalty towards the country.

Leader of the party Latvias First Party/Latvias Way, MP Ainars Slesers stated that Latvian citizenship could be sold for 1 million euros to foreigners in order to support countrys economy. Mr. Slesers believes that it is better to attract to Latvia wealthy foreigners rather than wait for refugees and third-country nationals. The statement provoked negative reaction among many Latvian politicians and experts. The President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers stated that Latvian citizenship cannot be sold because it is impossible to buy loyalty towards the country. Telegraf, Vesti Segodnya, Chas, Latvijas Avize

Vesti Segodnya reports that unknown persons placed a poster with an image of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires and title 16 March – day of commemoration of Latvian legion inside the Saeimas lobby. The poster got noticed by journalists and the Concord Centres deputies who asked technical workers to remove it.

Vesti Segodnya reports about a book Red Bubbles about so-called anti-state activities of various organisations and persons during 1988-1998 edited by nationalist Arnolds Berzs, - former MP and the recipient of the 3d-class Order of the Three Stars. The books author believes that state governmental authorities in Latvia should act first of all in the interests of ethnic Latvians and all the attempts to involve fully or partly ethnic non-Latvians in the government are anti-state activities. Recalling one of his colleagues at the parliament, an ethnic Jew who voted for independence, the author states that she represents a people, which always demands equality, yet it only recognizes the kind of equality, where it can be more equal then the others. The author labels a wide range of organisations as holding anti-state activities, such as Russian-language mass media, NGOs the Russian Community of Latvia, the Latvian Human Rights Committee, Latvian Association of Anti-Hitlerite Coalition Fighters and others.