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.

• Vesti Segodnya reports that the Security Police initiated a case against a Russian speaking woman for a comment allegedly inciting to ethnic hatred
• NRA prints an interview with ex-Head of the Naturalisation Board (NB) Eizenija Aldermane

Vesti Segodnya reports that the Security Police (SP) initiated a case against a Russian speaking woman for a comment placed in the ethnic Latvian nationalistic internet portal www.braucmajas.lv (go home). The woman asserts that she placed a comment stating: Latvia is our motherland, while you, Latvians, should remember where you were born – in the Soviet Union. The woman tells that the SP threatened her with 10 years of imprisonment for such comment arguing that the comment incites to ethnic hatred. The newspaper also notes that the same internet portal contains several comments insulting Russian speaking residents of Latvia.

NRA prints an interview with ex-Head of the Naturalisation Board (NB) Eizenija Aldermane. Mrs. Aldermane occupied the position since establishment of the Naturalisation Board in 1995. Mrs. Aldermane considers that integration of non-citizens would be more successful if certain politicians would stop labelling them as dangerous. Mrs. Aldermane also believes that the NB is not responsible for the fact that some naturalised non-Latvians do not use Latvian language after they received citizenship. She believes it is a problem of unsuccessful integration policy. Eizenija Aldermane also believes that the new Citizenship Law should be elaborated because the current law was amended too many times so that new amendments are not permissible.