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.

• Newspapers reports about 16 March events in Riga – no major confrontations registered
• Neatkariga prints an article about integration of Roma in Daugavpils

Newspapers report about the procession of former Latvian legionnaires and their supporters on 16 March in Riga– unofficial commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires. Comparing to the previous years, the event conducted without any major confrontations. After a church service, former legionnaires and their supporters walked through the centre of Rigato the Monumentof Freedomto lay the flowers. Some of the participants held posters in different languages condemning Nazism. The protest action against the procession was conducted by the members of the Latvian Anti-fascist Committee after the end of the legionnaires’ procession. The protest action manifested as a performance of “disinfection” of the square before the Monumentof Freedomfrom the “virus of Nazism.” The security during the events was maintained by a large number of police officers. Following the promise of the Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma, none of the Ministers took part in the procession. However, there were MPs – members of the National Union among the legionnaires’ procession. According to the Mayor of Riga Nils Usakovs, that there were about 1,000 participants who took part in 16 March events in Rigawhich is only 0,14% of total Rigapopulation. He thanked the rest of the Rigaresidents for not taking part in these events. Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize, Diena, Neatkariga

Neatkariga prints an article about integration of Roma inDaugavpils (city in the Eastern part ofLatvia.) There are about 400 Roma residents in the city, including 118 school age children. Recently,Daugavpils has become the first Latvian city - member of the European Alliance of Cities and Regions for Roma Inclusion. The membership in theAlliance will allow to share the experience, learn, solve different issues, especially connected to education and social inclusion.Daugavpils also implements some projects aimed at Roma integration.