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.

• Head of the Latvian Roma National Culture Association Normunds Rudevics about Roma integration issues

Chas features an interview with the head of the Latvian Roma National Culture Association Normunds Rudevics. He believes that the integration program proposed by the Secretariat of the Special Assignment Minister for Social Integration does not take into account cultural traditions of Roma. We have created our own alternative project… I do not find any discrimination of Roma in Latvia. 98 percent of them are citizens. Roma are already integrated in the areas of language, culture, and religion. We just have to find our own field for economic integration, believes Normunds Rudevics. He also emphasized the need to support Roma family business in various fields.