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.

• Candidate for the post of the President of Latvia Karina Petersone: granting non-citizens voting rights would consolidate the society
• Supreme Court has ordered repeated linguistic expertise in a case of ex-deputy of the Riga City Council Aleksandrs Gilmans

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In an interview with Telegraf, a candidate for the post of the President of Latvia Karina Petersone from the political party Latvias Way stated that Latvian society will never consist only of citizens. Karina Petersone argued that social researches show that about 60% of non-citizens do not need citizenship or do not want to have it. Therefore, Ms. Petersone believed that granting non-citizens voting rights would consolidate the society and draw its members to common aims.

Latvijas Avize reports that the Supreme Court has ordered repeated linguistic expertise in a case of ex-deputy of the Riga City Council Aleksandrs Gilmans. As reported, Aleksandrs Gilmans is charged for anti-governmental statements made on the internet forum of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-language Schools homepage. The Riga Regional Court resting on the linguistic expertise by the State Language Agency has justified Aleksandrs Gilmans. However, the Prosecutors Office has appealed the ruling arguing that there is a lack of concreteness and argumentation in the expertise. Repeated linguistic expertise is assigned to the Association of Independent Experts.