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.

• Russias officials criticize Latvia and Estonia for a large number of non-citizens
• Study Wage and its determinants claims that state language proficiency impacts amount of income in Latvia

Chas and Latvijas Avize report that the Director of the Department of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Work with Compatriots Aboard Aleksandr Chepurin has criticized Latvia and Estonia for a large number of non-citizens in the two countries. Ms. Chepurin has stated that it is a moral obligation of Russia to help ex-compatriots.

Vesti Segodnya prints an interview with one of the authors of a study Wage and its determinants academic Mihails Hazanovs. Mr. Hazanovs stated that the study has revealed that the factor which impacts the amount of earnings in Latvia is state language proficiency while ethnicity does not play any role.