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.

• Russian students meet with the Human Rights Commissioner of the CoE
• National Human Rights Office without leadership till the adoption of the Ombudsman Law
• Russian-language newspapers provide detailed information on the conference Russian-speakers in Europe

Chas and Vesti Segodnya report on the meeting of three Russian students from Latvia with the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Alvaro Gil-Robles in Strasbourg. The main discussion topics were mass non-citizenship, the minority education reform and restrictions in the rights of non-citizens to participate in municipal elections.

The coalition parties agreed to halt searching for a candidate for post of the director of the Latvian National Human Rights Office till the Law on Ombudsman is adopted.

The coalition parties agreed to halt searching for a candidate for post of the director of the Latvian National Human Rights Office till the Law on Ombudsman is adopted. Diena

Chas and Vesti Segodnya print a very comprehensive article on the conference Russian-speakers in the EU which took place in Estonia last weekend.