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.

• Saeima adopts amendments to the Law on Radio and Television
• Interview with the chairman of the party Latvias Way Ivars Godmanis about societal integration
• Russian Embassy to Latvia announces the number of persons leaving for Russia
• Psychologist and professor of the University of Latvia Olegs Nikiforovs talks about the education reform

In the third reading Saeima adopted amendments to the Law on Radio and Television Law. The new provisions foresee that the Cabinet of Ministers has the right to set specific provisions concerning the usage of the language of broadcasting if the usage of the state language is endangered or restricted in the territory of a respective broadcaster.

In the third reading Saeima adopted amendments to the Law on Radio and Television Law. The new provisions foresee that the Cabinet of Ministers has the right to set specific provisions concerning the usage of the language of broadcasting if the usage of the state language is endangered or restricted in the territory of a respective broadcaster. Latvijas Avize, Vesti Segodnya, Chas, Telegraf

Latvijas Avize prints an interview with the chairman of the party Latvias Way Ivars Godmanis about societal integration. Ivars Godmanis believes that the state should not speed up naturalisation with artificial methods. He believes that there is no need to amend the Citizenship Law, because wider range of prohibitions on the grant of Latvian citizenship would be interpreted as hampering of naturalisation. According to the politician, there is a need to promote the value of the Latvian state among Russians, in particularly young Russians.

In last few years the number of persons, who want to leave for Russia, has decreased by 100 – 150 persons a year, is stated in the official information distributed by the Russian Embassy to Latvia. This year 419 persons received migration papers. According to the Russian Embassy, the majority of people who want to leave Latvia are older persons, persons, who do not speak the Latvian language; persons, who cannot find a well-paid job and also those who want to their children to educate in the Russian language.

In last few years the number of persons, who want to leave for Russia, has decreased by 100 – 150 persons a year, is stated in the official information distributed by the Russian Embassy to Latvia. This year 419 persons received migration papers. According to the Russian Embassy, the majority of people who want to leave Latvia are older persons, persons, who do not speak the Latvian language; persons, who cannot find a well-paid job and also those who want to their children to educate in the Russian language. Latvijas Avize

Vesti Segodnya features an interview with the psychologist and professor of the University of Latvia Olegs Nikiforovs. He believes that the minority education reform would not have a negative impact on the academic development of minority students if only their secondary educational programme would be prolonged and they would study 15 instead of 12 years. Olegs Nikiforovs also notes that there is the lack of teaching aids in bilingual education in minority schools. The professor refers to tests, conducted among students of one minority school and concludes that IQ of these students has dropped by 53% since the beginning of the reform.