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.

• Neatkariga reports about desecration of the monument with swastikas

Neatkariga reports about desecration of the monument to the first Latvian president Janis Cakste. Unknown persons painted two swastikas and wrote “M.Ruks” on the monument. According to the newspaper, most likely “M.Ruks” means Maris Ruks who is known as one of the initiators of a public collection of signatures in support of demolition of the Monument to the Liberators of Riga from Nazi Invaders. Maris Ruks also is in the process of writing a book about the Holocaust in Latvia. Commenting the case with the desecration of the monument, Mr Ruks said that it is done by neo-Nazis.