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.

• 10,000 signatures collected for granting official status to Russian language
• ECRI is preparing the 4th report about Latvia
• Minister of Foreign Affairs Girts Valdis Kristovskis: Latvia is considering potential for accommodation of refugees
• Chas interviews political scientist Ilga Kreituse about integration policy in Latvia.

Initiators of the collection of signatures for referendum on granting Russian language status of official in Latvia informed that they already collected 10,000 signatures required to start the state funded collection of signatures. However, they will submit the signatures to the Central Electoral Committee in the end of the summer so that state funded collection of signatures to be conducted in September because the during the summer time people are not so active.

Initiators of the collection of signatures for referendum on granting Russian language status of official in Latvia informed that they already collected 10,000 signatures required to start the state funded collection of signatures. However, they will submit the signatures to the Central Electoral Committee in the end of the summer so that state funded collection of signatures to be conducted in September because the during the summer time people are not so active. Latvijas Avize

Latvijas Avize reports that the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe (ECRI) is preparing the 4th report about Latvia. The draft report will be sent to Latvia in the middle or the end of the summer.

Yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Girts Valdis Kristovskis stated that Latvia is considering potential for accommodation of refugees from Libya and Tunisia. According to the Minister there were no demands to Latvia regarding this issue yet.

Yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Girts Valdis Kristovskis stated that Latvia is considering potential for accommodation of refugees from Libya and Tunisia. According to the Minister there were no demands to Latvia regarding this issue yet. Telegraf

Chas interviews political scientist Ilga Kreituse about integration policy in Latvia. Mrs Kreituse believes that the draft integration program proposed by the Ministry of Culture is based on American model of integration and will not be effective in Latvian conditions. Mrs Kreituse believes that Latvian residents are not divided on ethnic lines because from the one side there are ethnic Latvians but from the other some kind of Soviet nation. According to Mrs Kreituse, the factors which unite ethnic minorities in Latvia in one group are that ethnic Latvians view at the majority of them, including Ukrainians and Belorussians, as at Russian speakers and call residents who arrived to Latvia during Soviet times and their descendants occupants.