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.

• Dissemination of information is the biggest challenge for collecting signatures for support of Russian as official language in Latvia
• Latvijas Avize reports about a complaint to the state language inspection about disrespectful attitude towards the state language

State funded collection of signatures in support of granting Russian language the status of official in Latvia starts on 1 November. One of the initiators of the action Vladimirs Lindermans says that the biggest challenge is to inform residents about the collection of signatures because there is no funding for it. Some NGOs and political organisations promised their support for the action. 153,000 signatures are required in order to launch the third stage of the initiative – national referendum. Telegraf

Latvijas Avize reports about a complaint to the state language inspection about disrespectful attitude towards the state language. According to the newspaper, a man turned to a private enterprise for consultation, however, its worker replied in Russian and refused to speak to the man in Latvian in a rude way. According to the head of the language control department of the State Language Centre Antons Kursitis, there were some complaints about representatives of private companies who refuse to speak to clients in Latvian, but such cases are very hard to prove because when the language inspector comes to check the situation workers speak in a good Latvian.