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.

• Jewish cemetery desecrated again in Riga
• Radicals will hold a procession in the centre of Riga on 1 July
• Activists of Russian NGOs forwarded to the U.S. Embassy in Riga symbolic passports of “non-citizens”

Vesti Segodnya reports about desecration of the New Jewish cemetery in Riga. On 27 June, unknown vandals damaged stained-glass window of a chapel probably by shooting at it with a gun. As reported, last time the Jewish cemetery was desecrated in December 2010 when many graves were painted with white swastika.

This year, national radicals again are planning to hold a procession in the centre of Riga on 1 July – the day of entrance of Nazi troops to Riga in 1941. Organiser of the procession radical Igors Siskins asserts that the procession will be held in commemoration of Stalin’s repressions in 1940-1941. Vesti Segodnya

On the threshold of U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s visit to Latvia, activists of Russian NGOs forwarded to the U.S. Embassy in Riga symbolic passports of “non-citizens” of the United States of America. In the line “Nationality”, the letters “United States of America” have been stricken-out and replaced with “Alien!” The symbolic passports were issued to the U.S. President Barack Obama, his wife Michele Obama, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and the U.S. Ambassador to Latvia Judith Garber. By this action, the activists ask the U.S. State Secretary to draw attention to the problem of mass scale non-citizenship in Latvia. Vesti Segodnya