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.

• Vesti Segodnya interviews the ex-President of Latvia, current leader of the Reforms Party Valdis Zatlers

Vesti Segodnya interviews the ex-President of Latvia, current leader of the Reforms Party Valdis Zatlers who is planning to leave the post of the party’s leader in the up-coming party’s congress. Mr Zatlers asserts that for the Reforms Party ethnic factor is not a weapon of ideological battle. However, the society does not hurry to support such parties because it does not believe that it is possible, believes Mr Zatlers. Mr Zatlers also believes that Russian speaking residents get engaged in politics less that ethnic Latvians.