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.

• Security Police did not find incitement to ethnic hatred in a video clip and a song My profession – ethnic Latvian
• Neatkariga reports that several deputies elected in the new Saeima have insufficient Latvian language proficiency

The Security Police did not find incitement to ethnic hatred in a video clip and a song My profession – ethnic Latvian. As reported, nationalists political union For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM-All for Latvia! believed that this song and video published on the Internet openly insults ethnic Latvians. Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize

Neatkariga reports that several deputies elected in the new Saeima have insufficient Latvian language proficiency. According to a representative of the State language Centre Antons Kursitis, the MPs should have the highest level of state language proficiency, however, unlike municipal deputies, it is impossible to punish MPs if they are not proficient enough.