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.

• Telegraf reports that Russias NGO Russkie begun issuing card of Russian to Russian compatriots in Baltic countries, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Moldova
• Diena prints an article about the Ombudsman Romans Apsitis

Telegraf reports that Russias NGO Russkie begun issuing card of Russian to Russian compatriots in Baltic countries, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Moldova. Such initiative is negatively evaluated by the Security Police of Latvia and will be reviewed at the meeting of Saeimas National Security Committee. According to a representative of the Security Police, spread of such cards looks like political process aimed at splitting Latvian residents on different categories and it might endanger integration process and naturalisation. The director of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights Ilze Brands Kehris considers that such initiative is acceptable only if it does not have any political subtext and does not become an instrument of interference in Latvian internal affairs. According to the head of the United Congress of Russian Community in Latvia Aleksandrs Gaponenko, the card of Russian is initiative of Russias NGO and has no relation to activities of Russian government.

Diena prints an article about the Ombudsman Romans Apsitis. In an interview with the newspaper, the MP Ainars Latkovskis (a key person in elaboration of the Law on Ombudsman) states that activities of the Ombudsman do not fulfil the idea of the Ombudsmans Office because it continues to deal mostly with the same issues as the National Human Rights Office despite the fact that budget and capacity of the Ombudsmans Office are much greater. Mr. Latkovskis believes that the conflict in the Ombudsmans Office arose because of low moral authority of Mr. Apsitis in the eyes of his employees. Mr. Latkovskis considers a more suitable head of the Office would give a second breath to the institution.