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.

• The Economist: Baltic States fear workers from Ukraine and Belarus
• Russian NGOs will meet MEPs
• Leader of a new centric party about partys goals
• Aleksandrs Kirsteins is establishing a new national radical party

The magazine

The magazine The Economist analyses the situation in the labour market in the Baltic States. The magazine notes that now there are new tendencies: employers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania complain about labour shortages. The magazine points to a number of possible solutions to the problem, including bringing in workers from Belarus or Ukraine. The magazine concludes that the Baltic States, where many of its residents perceive migrants from Russia as continuous and unpleasant reminder of the Soviet occupation, such solutions raise horror. Diena

A group of representatives of Russian NGOs is going to Strasbourg to meet members of the European Parliament. The main topic of discussions is observation of minority rights in Latvia.

A group of representatives of Russian NGOs is going to Strasbourg to meet members of the European Parliament. The main topic of discussions is observation of minority rights in Latvia. Chas

Chas talks to dr.phil. Anita Jakobsone, leader of the political party Centre for Harmony. Anita Jakobsone argues that Latvia is not a two-community country, however, it is not far from this situation. She states that her party is established with the aim to look for unifying factors between the two communities. She believes that her party will manage to take a niche of a centric party that will unite people of various ethnic backgrounds.

Vesti Segodnya writes that the former member of the Peoples Party Aleksandrs Kirsteins (who was excluded from the party for his anti-Semitic statements) currently is working at the establishment of a national radical party. He claims that his party could have one third of seats in the next Saeima.