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.

• Asylum seekers held a picket near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers
• Diena interviews head of the Jewish Community’s Council in Latvia Arkadijs Suharenko

Vesti Segodnya reports about a picket held by a couple of asylum seekers near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers. The asylum seekers held posters in Latvian and English languages saying “we are not immigrants, we are asylum seekers” and asking for asylum and protection in Latvia.

Diena prints an interview with the head of the Jewish Community’s Council in Latvia Arkadijs Suharenko. According to Mr Suharenko, Latvian state is not responsible for the Holocaust, however because of the tragic events Jewish properties became property of Latvian state. Therefore, it would be morally and ethically right to return the Jewish properties lost during the Holocaust to the Jewish community. Mr Suharenko also believes that the issue of restitution of Jewish properties would not be raised if the properties were returned to the Jewish religious congregation in 1991-1993 as it was done with other confessions.