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 features an interview with the chairman of the Afro-Latvian Association Christopher Ejugbo
• LASHOR proposes to include a mandatory native language and literature examination in the educational programmes of minority secondary schools
• Latvijas Avize reports on a petition submitted to the European Parliaments Committee on Petitions with an appeal to stop naturalisation of non-citizens in Latvia

Vesti Segodnya features an interview with the chairman of the Afro-Latvian Association Christopher Ejugbo about racism in Latvia. Christopher Ejugbo believes that ‘street racism is a significant problem in Latvia.

Telegraf reports that the Committee of the Cabinet of Ministers will review a proposal of the Latvian Association for Support of Russian Language Schools (LASHOR in its Russian acronym) to introduce a mandatory native language and literature examination in educational programmes of minority secondary schools. According to the LASHOR, it would motivate minority students to learn their mother tongue and literature.

Latvijas Avize reports that a Latvian resident Ina Leimane has submitted a petition to the European Parliaments Committee on Petitions asking to stop naturalisation of non-citizens in Latvia. Ina Leimane argues that persons who have arrived to Latvia during the Soviet times are illegal migrants and are disloyal towards the Latvian state, therefore they have to be repatriated to their ethnic motherland.