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 reports on a conference Participation of Latvia Non-citizens in Municipal Elections as a Stimulus for Integration and Naturalisation
• MP Augusts Brigmanis: Union of Greens and Farmers does not support granting all non-citizens Latvian citizenship or granting non-citizens voting rights in municipal elections
• Russia is planning to establish Russian-European institute of freedom and democracy which would monitor situation of Russian speakers in Latvia and Estonia

Chas reports on a conference Participation of Latvia Non-citizens in Municipal Elections as a Stimulus for Integration and Naturalisation held by NGOs the Russian Community in Liepaja, the Union of Citizens and Non-citizens and the Humanitarian Perspective on 28 October in Liepaja. Representatives of Russian NGOs in Latvia and state officials have taken part in the conference. The aim of the conference was to form a delegation who would forward to the President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers the draft amendments to Latvian legal acts which stipulate granting non-citizens voting rights in municipal elections. According to the director of the Humanitarian Perspective Elizabete Krivcova, naturalisation in Latvia will move forward only when government will acknowledge rights of non-citizens by certain activities such as granting them rights to participate in municipal elections.

Vesti Segodnya prints an interview with the head of the Saeimas faction Union of Greens and Farmers, MP Augusts Brigmanis. Mr. Brigmanis has stated that Union of Greens and Farmers does not support granting all non-citizens Latvian citizenship or granting non-citizens voting rights in municipal elections. However, Mr. Brigmanis believes that naturalisation procedure could be simplified for all those who want to become citizen of Latvia.

Vesti Segodnya reports that at the Russia-EU Summit, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin has informed about the plans to establish Russian-European institute of freedom and democracy. Among the aims of the institute would be monitoring situation of ethnic minorities and migrants in the EU and Russia. In an interview with the newspaper, the member of the Russias Presidential Council Sergey Markov has stated that situation of non-citizens and Russian speakers in Latvia and Estonia are among core issues on which Russia will continue to draw attention of the EU.