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.

• Media expert Sergejs Kruks: non-citizens passively defend their rights because even during the Soviet era the right to vote was a very formal right
• Mayor of Riga Nils Usakovs does not have specific opinion about the Congress of Non-citizens

 Vesti Segodnya interviews media expert Sergejs Kruks. Mr Kruks believes that Latvian residents – both ethnic Latvians and Russian speakers are socially very passive because they do not have an experience from the past how to collectively defend their rights. Thus, for instance, non-citizens passively defend their rights because even during the Soviet era the right to vote was a very formal right. According to Sergejs Kruks, establishment of the Congress of Non-citizens is a logical extension of the referendum on the status of Russian language in Latvia and both the Congress and the referendum represent a reaction of the Russophone part of the society to the increasingly radical nationalistic rhetoric of the governing parties.

In an interview with Latvijas Avize, commenting the establishment of the Congress of Non-citizens the Mayor of Riga Nils Usakovs stated that he does not have specific opinion about this initiative yet. Mr Usakovs believes that the Congress future activities and aims are unclear yet and therefore it is important firstly to understand how it will develop. Regarding co-operation of the Concord Centre with other parties in the Parliament, Mr Usakovs believes that it should be built on constructive dialogue which would concentrate more on solution of social problems and exclude sensitive issues concerning history and others.