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.

• National Council on Electronic Mass Media plans to establish a studio of Latvian Radio in Latgale
• The MP Dzintars Abikis: transition of ethnic minority schools into Latvian language should be implemented quietly

According to the National Council on Electronic Mass Media, EUR 187,684 required for establishment of a studio of Latvian Radio in Latgale (eastern region of Latvia.) The special studio is needed in order to ensure broadcast of Latvian Radio in Latgale region thus strengthening informative space in border areas, sense of belonging to the state, national identity and promoting consolidation of the society. Latvijas Avize

The MP Dzintars Abikis (the Unity) believes that members of the nationalists’ union make too much noise about transition of ethnic minority schools into Latvian language. Instead of that, Mr Abikis considers that everything should be done quietly through methodical and persistent work.  Other MP Janis Urbanovics (the Concord Centre), in his turn, advises Mr Abikis to leave alone the issue of education system arguing that graduates of ethnic minority schools have no problems with Latvian language proficiency and stressing that the main problem is not in language but in funding for education.