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.

Press Review

The author (Aigars Jirgens) criticizes the US approach to the troops withdrawal saying that the American pressure on Latvia to make agree to the demands put forward by Russia contradicts the UN and CSCE acts. He believes that all that is done to make it possible for Russia to join the Big 7 as soon as possible and the withdrawal of troops even with the Skrunde radar remaining on the Latvian soil will make it possible.