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.

• The Speaker of the Saeima Solvita Aboltina accuses the Concord Centre of receiving funding and tasks from Russian Embassy
• Political scientist Ilga Kreituse: the society is not divided

The Speaker of the Saeima Solvita Aboltina in an interview with Latvijas Avize stated that the Concord Centre is not interested in the development of Latvia and receives its instructions from the Russian Embassy.  Mrs Aboltina stated that she wants to explain Latvian citizens that every voice given at the elections to the Concord Centre is not just a voice for Russian party but the voice for such force which receives its tasks from Russia. Mrs Aboltina also said “while ethnic Latvian parties are fighting each other, the Concord Centre is consolidating, getting paid and trained by foreign forces, and we can loose our country.” Commenting such statements of the Speaker, the one of the leaders of the Concord Centre, MP Valerijs Agesins stated that he might appeal to the Saeima’s Mandates, Ethics and Submissions Committee and the court asking to evaluate the statements and ask Mrs Aboltina to prove her words by facts. Vesti Segodnya

According to a political scientist Ilga Kreituse, there is no ethnic split in society. Mrs Kreituse says that she works at the university with Russians speakers who speak Latvian language and with ethnic Latvians who are willing to learn Russian and there are no preconditions which could lead to confrontations. Mrs Kreituse believes that the word “split” is used by politicians in order to justify the things they haven’t done. Latvijas Avize