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.

• The FF/LNIM proposes to grant the Cabinet of Ministers rights to take special measures on protection of state language in radio and TV if the state language looses its position in mass media
• President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers: it would be useful to restore the Presidents Advisory Council of Ethnic Minorities

Vesti Segodnya reports that the Saeima faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM (FF/LNIM) proposes to grant the Cabinet of Ministers the right to take special measures on the protection of state language in radio and TV if the state language looses its position in mass media. The Minister of Justice Gaidis Berzins (FF/LNIM) also supports such proposal and considers that it should be included in the draft Law on Audio and Visual Mass Media. However, according to the newspaper, the proposal does not specify how the government will protect the state language and whether the government will have the right to intervene only in the case of public mass media or also in private radio and TV channels.

In an interview with

In an interview with Latvijas Avize, the President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers states that it would be useful to restore the Presidents Advisory Council of Ethnic Minorities because such council would provide opportunity for representatives of ethnic minorities to share their views and ideas with the President. President Zatlers also believes that key attention in integration field should be paid to the integration of young people, that special focus be put on promoting awareness that Latvia is their state, Latvian language is our state language and we all are united by values significant to all Latvian citizens