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.

• Sarmite Elerte: education in ethnic minorities’ schools in Russian is absurd
• Congress of Non-Citizens appealed to the U.S. President Barack Obama
• Nationalists: foreigners who buy real estate suppress ethnic Latvian state with foreign languages and cultures

 One of the leaders of the political party “Unity”, member of the Riga City Council Sarmite Elerte in her Twitter account wrote that it is absurd that bilingual education in Belorussian and Ukrainian ethnic minorities’ schools is in native and Russian languages. Other Twitter users, including education experts, commented the Elerte's twit by asserting that education in minority schools is in native and Latvian language and questioned what is the source of Elerte's information which motivated her to make such statement. Vesti Segodnya

Activists of the Congress of Non-Citizens sent the President of the United States of America Barack Obama an appeal telling about the problem of large scale non-citizenship in Latvia. The Congress of Non-Citizens asked the U.S. President to raise this issue during his meeting with the President of Latvia Andris Berzins on 30 August. Authors of the appeal put attention on infringement of rights of non-citizens asking the Barack Obama to demand Latvia to stop such practice. Vesti Segodnya

Latvijas Avize reports that the nationalists’ union All for Latvia!/FF-LNIM again launched discussion to revoke the present provisions which envisage opportunity of residence permits for those third-country nationals, who own real estate in Latvia. The nationalists want to cancel such regulations as they believe that the number of real estate sold to foreigners became dramatically high. The nationalists also believe that foreigners from Russia, China and other countries who buy the real estate in Latvia continue what was done to Latvia during the USSR occupation – suppression of ethnic Latvian state with foreign languages and cultures.