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 Defence Artis Pabriks believes that an NGO “Russian Society in Latvia” should be closed
• Publicist Dainis Lemesonoks: non-citizens cannot be classified as Latvian nation

The Minister of Defence Artis Pabriks believes that an NGO “Russian Society in Latvia” should be closed for its anti-national activities. The Minister appealed to the Security Police asking to evaluate a map prepared by the NGO's member which according to Mr Pabriks shows that this NGO is anti-national, anti-European, Russian radical nationalistic and hidden anti-Semitic. The map shows 490 WWII memorials and soldiers’ burialdifferent places on the territory of Latvia. According to Mr Pabriks, the map is accompanied with a text, which identifies nazism and fascism with Europe, while Latvia is presented as Russian, not European territory; national partisans are called not finished Nazis. Mr Pabriks believes this text incites ethnic hatred. Latvijas Avize

A Latvian publicist Dainis Lemesonoks states that non-citizens living in Latvia cannot be classified as Latvian nation, because they do not have political rights. According to Mr Lemesonoks, Latvian nation are all citizens and the state has the right to ask for loyalty towards the state from those who want to become its citizen. Mr Lemesonoks believes non-citizens have possibility to receive Latvian citizenship and it is a question whether they want it. Chas