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.

• Old Believers are dissatisfied with the answer of the Speaker of the Saeima Solvita Aboltina  

The leaders of the Russian Old Believers communities are dissatisfied with the answer of the Speaker of the Saeima Solvita Aboltina. As reported, the leaders of the Old Believers send an appeal letter to the Speaker expressing their anxiety about the legal status of Russian language and the general situation in the country following the language referendum. According to the leader of Rezekne Old Believers parish MP Vladimirs Nikonovs, the Speaker’s answer simply recounts existing legislation, while the Old Believers are anxious about the fact that this legislation declares their language as “foreign”. According to Mr. Nikonovs, during the last three centuries the Old Believers have experienced physical and legal persecution, yet they outlived the authors of these injustices. Mr. Nikonovs hopes for the common sense and for the slogan of integration of society to finally be realised. Chas, Vesti Segodnya