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.

• Minister of Justice Aigars Stokenbergs: non-Latvian names are not being Latvianised but written according to Latvian language grammar
• Ministry of Culture cut funding for the NGO Latvian National Association of Cultural Societies

The Minister of Justice Aigars Stokenbergs commented the decision of the UN Human Rights Committee which ruled that the Latvianisation of non-Latvian names and surnames (such as adding ending -s) in official documents issued in Latvia is interference in private life. The Minister stated that this decision is not obligatory for implementation. He also believes that non-Latvian names are not being Latvianised but written according to Latvian language grammar which is recognised proper by the Constitutional Court of Latvia.

The Minister of Justice Aigars Stokenbergs commented the decision of the UN Human Rights Committee which ruled that the Latvianisation of non-Latvian names and surnames (such as adding ending -s) in official documents issued in Latvia is interference in private life. The Minister stated that this decision is not obligatory for implementation. He also believes that non-Latvian names are not being Latvianised but written according to Latvian language grammar which is recognised proper by the Constitutional Court of Latvia. Chas

Latvijas Avize reports that the Ministry of Culture cut funding for the NGO Latvian National Association of Cultural Societies which unites 20 ethnic minorities organisations. The NGO was granted only LVL 6,300 which does not cover even utility bills of the NGOs building.