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 about a scandal around possible usage in Riga schools of books issued in Russia
• Saeima supported in the final reading ban of usage of the USSR and Nazi symbolic at the public events
• Representatives of the Congress of Non-Citizens met with three members of the European Parliament

Vesti Segodnya reports about a scandal around possible usage of books in Riga schools issued in Russia. The deputy of the Riga City Council Janis Martins Skuja found that one of the Russian language schools uses a book on political science issued in Russia and complained about it to the Security Police and the Ministry of Education and Science. Mr Skuja claimed that the book is biased and asked to check whether the schools really use such books. The director of the school where the book was found in an interview to the newspaper explained that the book was never used in the study process and it was stored in her personal library.

Yesterday, the Saeima supported in the final reading the amendments to the Law "On the Security of Public Entertainment and Festive Events” forbidding usage of the USSR and Nazi symbolic. The amendments ban usage of Soviet and Nazi flags, emblems, and anthems, Nazi swastika, signs of the Waffen SS legion and Soviet symbols including the hammer and sickle together with five-pointed star. Usage of these symbols will not be prohibited if the aim of the usage is not connected with glorification of totalitarian regimes or justification of crimes committed by these regimes. Latvijas Avize notes that the MPs excluded from the amendments usage of uniforms explaining it by the fact that there were too many kinds of uniforms.

Vesti Segodnya reports that representatives of the Congress of Non-Citizens met with three members of the European Parliament including MEP from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka informing them about the problem of large scale non-citizenship in Latvia and establishment of the Parliament of Unrepresented.