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.

• Results of hotline on bilingual education in national minority schools 

Vesti Segodnya reports about the results of its hotline on the quality of bilingual education in national minority schools. Parents complain that several subjects are taught bilingually already in the elementary school and the books are in the state language thus the children are not able to do the homework themselves, but wait for the parents to translate in the evenings. Besides, some books lack rules and include outdated words which are no longer used in Latvian. Some schools allow only 30% subjects in native language as early as in 7th grade, and thus subjects such as algebra, physics, chemistry, biology are taught in the state language. German language teacher refuses Russian and thus children and parents are forced to make triple translation: the children "rebelled" against the teacher and parents formally complained, yet nothing changed. Russian literature book does not have Russian authors and only include Russian translations of Latvian authors. To help the children, parents buy books from Russia and are forced to hire private teachers, but very few can afford it. The secondary school students are very sceptical about education opportunities in Latvia, because not only books, but also their own notes are required in Latvian, they should not mix up the terms in Latvian such as šķautne and skaldne, and as a result they lack knowledge of subjects and fluency in the state language. Many secondary school students would stay in Latvia if they had access to higher education in Russian or at least in English, which is easier for them than Latvian.