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.

• Chas continues to print a series of articles on the situation of Russians in Latvia.
• Latvijas Avize reports on relations between Rafi Haradzanjans and the Integration Secretariat
• Best social advertisement in 2006 presented to commercials about Rezekne as a city rich in ethnic diversity
• Latvian and German school children shoot a documentary on the Holocaust in Latvia

Chas continues to print a series of articles on the situation of Russians in Latvia. The columnist notes that the Russian community needs highly educated people – scientists, teachers, engineers, doctors, journalists – to ensure survival and development of various essential aspects of the community. The columnist believes that one of the key unification factors is education in Russian.

Latvijas Avize reports that the Saeimas faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM (FF/LNIM) has hold a meeting with the head of the Association of Ethnic Cultural Societies in Latvia (AECSL) Rafi Haradzanjans. FF/LNIM believes that state support for the organisation should be increased as the AESCL has always been a loyal organisation. As reported, Rafi Haradzanjans claimed that some representatives of the Integration Secretariat (IUMSILS in its Latvian acronym) are trying to split the organisation and that the Secretariat fails to ensure appropriate funding. Latvijas Avize also prints a response of the Special Assignments Minister of Social Integration Oskars Kastens to the Haradzanjans accusations. Oskars Kastens states that that in fact the Head of the AESCL might not be considered loyal to Latvia as he was involved in the left-wing political union Motherland which asked the Russian language status of the official state language in Latvia and had protested against governments decisions. The Minister also stresses that information provided by Mr. Haradzanjans about the AESCL and the IUMSILS is false.

Diena reports that the main award of the Latvian National Radio for the best social advertisement in 2006 was presented to TV and radio commercials about Rezekne (city in the Eastern part of Latvia) as a city of ethnic diversity. One of the directors of the commercial in an interview with the newspaper stated that mentality and traditions of representatives of various ethnic groups who reside in Rezekne were a leading-motive for the clips.

Diena reports that Latvian and German school are shooting a documentary on the Holocaust in Latvia in the framework of a project of the Goethe Institute Peace for Europe – Europe for Peace. The documentary tells about destinies of Jews deported from Germany to Latvia during WWII. Premiere of the documentary is scheduled for summer, first in Germany and then in Latvia.