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.

• Politician Aleksandrs Kirsteins: if you do not assimilate you will be assimilated by others

Neatkariga prints an interview with the member of the Riga City Council Aleksandrs Kirsteins (nationalists union All for Latvia/FF-LNIM). According to Mr Kirsteins, Latvia currently faces problems with integration because the only way how to prevent such problem was assimilation of ethnic minorities but the state authorities ignored it 20 years ago and still do. Mr Kirsteins believes that the citizenship should be granted only to assimilated incomers but Latvia has granted citizenship to everyone. Regarding to the issue on restitution of Jewish properties, Mr Kirsteins considers that it is wrong to compensate the loss of Jewish properties during the Holocaust to the association named Council of the Jewish Communities of Latvia because it was established recently and cannot be considered as the direct inheritor of Jewish people who lost their properties.