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.

• Vesti Segodnya reports about a provocation conducted by the TV journalists towards Russian language schools

Vesti Segodnya reports about a TV broadcast “Prohibited Techniques” in which its journalists, on the threshold of the Independence Day (18 November), called three Russian language schools in Riga pretending to be representatives of the Ministry of Education and asked the directors of the schools to put posters devoted to the Independence Day. Later, the same journalists repeatedly called the schools pretending to be representatives of an organisation “9 May” and asked to remove the posters as those contain information about Soviet occupation. Following such provocation, two schools agreed to remove the posters. Thus, the journalists made a conclusion that despite the fact that Russian language schools conduct events devoted to the Independence of Latvia, managers of the schools are disloyal towards Latvian state. Following the broadcast, the Ministry of Education planned to conduct an inspection of the education quality in mentioned schools. The Mayor of Riga Nils Usakovs, in his turn, stated that the City Council will not punish the directors as they became victims of a cheep and foolish provocation.