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.

• Preamble to the Constitution of Latvia to be presented next week
• Aleksandrs Gaponenko: Congress of Non-Citizens is not Kremlin’s agent

Vesti Segodnya reports about the draft Preamble to the Constitution of Latvia developed under the guidance of the head of the President’s Commission on Constitutional Law Egils Levits. The aim of the draft Preamble is to determine legally the core of the Constitution and to set irrevocable articles related to the fact that ethnic Latvians are the state nation, Latvian language as the only state language, and the state’s integrity is inseparable. The draft Preamble planned to be presented in the Parliament next week.

According to one of the leaders of the Congress of Non-Citizens Aleksandrs Gaponenko, the Congress has never received money from Russia and cannot be considered as Kremlin’s agent. Mr Gaponenko also confirmed that one representative of the Congress joined the headquarters of the Russian oppositional leader Aleksey Navalniy in order to learn the experience on organising the pre-election campaign and mass actions. Mr Gaponenko also says that the Congress actively works outside of Latvia in order to attract international attention to the problem of non-citizenship. Vesti Segodnya