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.

• 45-50 years old Russian speaking women feel the most insecure in Latvia
• Founding meeting of the Congress of Non-Citizens will be held on 23 March
• Unity proposes to transfer education in all Riga kindergartens into Latvian language only

According to a portrait of human security, Russian speaking women aged 45-50 who live in Latgale region or Riga and have average income are the group of people who feel themselves most insecure in Latvia. These women are not engaged in any public organisations and relay only on themselves. The portrait was drawn in a research “Human Security in Latvia and the World: from idea to practice” conducted in the framework of a project “National Identity” within State research program. Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga

Newspapers report that the founding meeting of the Congress of Non-Citizens will be held on 23 March.  According to one of the initiators of the Congress Elizabete Krivcova, the aim is to establish self-government of non-citizens which will be a legitimate representative of 300,000 non-citizens in Latvia. The Congress wants to take part in various sessions and meetings of the government and municipal councils representing opinion of non-citizens and lobbying their interests. Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize

The political party Unity proposes to transfer gradually education in all Riga kindergartens into Latvian language only. According to the Unity, there are cases when ethnic Latvians are forced to send their children to Russian language kindergartens because all Latvian language kindergartens are full. However, according to a representative of the Education, Culture and Sports Department of the Riga City Council, all groups in Latvian and Russian language kindergartens are full. 60% or 2,191 children are waiting for a place in Latvian language kindergarten group, 27% or 986 children are waiting for Russian language group, and 13% or 475 children are waiting for a place in one or the other language group. In total, there are 728 Latvian language groups and 585 minority language groups in Riga. Latvijas Avize