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.

• Latvian Foreign Policy Institutepublished the Latvian Foreign Policy and Security Yearbook 2015

Vesti Segodnya reports about the Latvian Foreign Policy and Security Yearbook 2015 published by the Latvian Foreign Policy Institute. In a chapter “Will Latvia be Putin’s Next Victim in 2015” written by former head of the Constitution Protection Bureau Janis Kazocins believes that the risk that something similar to current events in Eastern Ukraine could be repeated in Latvia and the other Baltic States is very low. Mr Kazocins believes that although the existence of Russian speaking minorities in Latvia is politically useful for Russia, the majority of them are Latvia’s patriots and are well-integrated. At the same time, he also believes that there is a potential threat form the idea of a universally elected President in Latvia, as “the employment of populist campaigning methods along with widespread use of funding from unclear, foreign sources could end with Latvia having what one local journalist has described as a “little green president.”