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 anti-Russian statement made by a well-known Latvian PR expert Eriks Stendzenieks

Vesti Segodnya reports about a statement made by a well-known Latvian PR expert Eriks Stendzenieks and published on his social network profile towards his Russian speaking friends who like Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and support merge of Crimea with Russia. E. Stendzenieks called V. Putin psycho and killer, said that Crimea does not belong to Russia, as well as Moldova, Georgia, Ossetia, Karabakh, Yalta, Alaska, Kuriles, and Finland do not belong to it. E.Stendzenieks wrote: “there is no paradise in Russia where vodka flows like a river and where you will receive everything you want just because of who you are and you are unhappy Latvian Russians.” Commenting Stendzenieks’ statement, the newspaper draws attention to the increasing anti-Russian mood among ethnic Latvian society leaders and in society in general.