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.

• Head of the Saeimas Committee on Consolidation of Society Ilmars Latkovskis: Latvia as two community state does not have a future
• Diena prints series of articles about Daugavpils
• MP Raivis Dzintars calls to terminate the opportunity of parents to choose kindergartens with Latvian and Russian language of instruction
• Neatkariga prints an interview with one of the initiators of the collection of signatures for granting Russian language status of a state language in Latvia Aleksandrs Gaponenko
• Researcher of Nazi crimes and the Holocaust from the United Kingdom initiated collection of signatures on the Internet under a petition to forbid the processions on 16 March in Riga

Chas prints an interview with the MP, head of the Saeimas Committee on Consolidation of Society Ilmars Latkovskis. Mr Latkovskis believes that Latvia as two community state does not have a future because there always will be confrontation and instability. Mr Latkovskis believes that Latvian residents trough dialogue should find the common vision for countrys future.

Diena prints series of articles about Daugavpils – the city in the Eastern part of Latvia in which 85,18% of citizens voted for the Constitutional amendments granting Russian language status of official in Latvia at the national referendum. The newspaper interviews residents and well-known persons of the city.

Latvijas Avize and Neatkariga print interviews with the MP Raivis Dzintars (All for Latvia!/FF-LNIM). Mr Dzintars calls to terminate the opportunity of parents to choose between kindergartens with Latvian and Russian language of instruction. He believes that one of the starting points for integration is transition of all kindergartens into Latvian language as the only language of instruction. At the same time, the groups with children from ethnic minorities families should have orientation on preservation of ethnic and cultural identity. Mr Dzintars believes it should be strictly ensured that all education establishments have one education content.

Neatkariga prints an interview with one of the initiators of the collection of signatures for granting Russian language status of a state language in Latvia, director of the European studies institute Aleksandrs Gaponenko. Mr Gaponenko states that the referendum on the status of Russian language was the first step towards elimination of discrimination of Russian speaking residents in Latvia. The next step will be the initiation of referendum for granting all non-citizens Latvian citizenship.

A researcher of Nazi crimes and the Holocaust from the United Kingdom Monica Lowenberg initiated collection of signatures on the Internet under a petition to forbid the processions on 16 March in the centre of Riga (un-official commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires.) The petition is addressed to Latvia, the international community, the UK government, the European Union and the NATO. The petition says that the number of persons taking part in the processions grows every year. About 1,000 persons already signed under the petition, the majority of them are from Latvia and Estonia.

A researcher of Nazi crimes and the Holocaust from the United Kingdom Monica Lowenberg initiated collection of signatures on the Internet under a petition to forbid the processions on 16 March in the centre of Riga (un-official commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires.) The petition is addressed to Latvia, the international community, the UK government, the European Union and the NATO. The petition says that the number of persons taking part in the processions grows every year. About 1,000 persons already signed under the petition, the majority of them are from Latvia and Estonia. Telegraf