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.

• Latvijas Avize prints an interview with Jewish Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich

Latvijas Avize prints an interview with Jewish Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich who was born in Latvia and during the Soviet times was imprisoned in forced labour camp for resistance to russification of Jews and later expelled from the Soviet Union. Commenting the current language situation in Latvia, Mr Mendelevich believes that the state language proficiency by young non-Latvians improved sufficiently comparing to the Soviet years when the young generation who arrived to Latvia mostly as a labour force spoke no Latvian at all. Mr Mendelevich believes that in order to learn the language for non-Latvians it is very important to read Latvian literature, newspapers, to listen programmes in Latvian language. Yosef Mendelevich considers that the people who arrived to Latvia during USSR should understand that they should respect the nation (ethnic Latvians) to whose state they have arrived, to accept their laws and not to enforce their culture.