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.

• Council on Electronic Mass Media fined the First Baltic Channel for biased information about events in Ukraine
• Luftwaffe Latvian veterans appealed to the Parliament

The Council on Electronic Mass Media fined the First Baltic Channel (1BC) with EUR 3,600 for biased information provided in the news broadcast about events in Ukraine. According to the Council, distribution of biased information about Ukraine may split the society in their attitude towards events in Ukraine. The 1BC got also fined with EUR 1,000 for failure to insure proportion of programmes broadcasted in state language (the 1BC suppose to ensure at least 21% of its broadcast content in Latvian language in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.) Latvijas Avize

Vesti Segodnya reports that the Speaker of the Saeima Solvita Aboltina and head of the Saeima’s Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee Inara Murniece received a letter from the Foundation of Aviation Veterans or Latvian veterans who during the WWII served in the Luftwaffe with their proposals to the draft law on the status of the WWII veterans and complaint about bad attitude towards them. Members of the Foundation complaint that sometimes they are called fascists, occupants, blamed for committed genocide, and other crimes. The newspaper notes that the letter includes emblem of the Luftwaffe Latvian Legion which has also swastika in it.