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.

• Baltic Institute of Social Sciences discussed with the Saeima’s Society Consolidation Committee a study on integration of non-citizens
• Vesti Segodnya interviews well-known Russian speaking entrepreneurs about the reasons of low support to local Russian NGOs

Vesti Segodnya reports that the Baltic Institute of Social Sciences discussed with the Saeima’s Society Consolidation Committee a study on integration of non-citizens. Authors of the study concluded that status of Latvian non-citizen is connected with negative emotions and facilitates alienation from the state. Non-citizens have subjective sense of discrimination which is not connected with restrictions of social, economic, or political rights but with the status itself. Commenting the results of the study, the MP Valdis Liepins questioned whether these people understand that they were born not in the independent Latvia but in the Soviet Union. He also stated that not only non-citizens but also Russian speaking citizens are oriented towards the USSR and Russia.

Vesti Segodnya interviews well-known Russian speaking entrepreneurs in Latvia about the reasons of low support to local Russian NGOs. According to the interviewed entrepreneurs, they do not refuse sponsorship and charity but choose only those directions considered to be more important for the society or interesting personally for themselves. Some entrepreneurs think that so-called Russian projects are not so important or they do not know about such projects or fund their own projects. The entrepreneurs also are not confident that their funding will be spent properly.