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 interviews journalist Janis Domburs
• Latvijas Avize interviews Riga Mayor Aivars Aksenoks
• Vesti Segodnya: in his visit to Latvia the USA President will stress the importance of observation of minority rights in a democratic country
• Exhibition on the Armenian Genocide opened in Riga

Vesti Segodnya talks to Janis Domburs, moderator of the weekly TV political show ‘What Is Going On in Latvia? aired by the Latvian National TV. Vesti Segodnya introduces Janis Domburs by stating that ‘he is among very few journalists in Latvia who do not have a label [Latvian or Russian journalist] and his show is highly respected by both the Latvian and Russian audiences. When asked to comment on relations between Latvians and Russians in Latvia, Janis Domburs says ‘I think that now we are in the situation when parallel realities and dual morale exist everywhere… I have given up the idea of happy integration propagated by a number of politicians. I believe that this idea is dead a long time ago and after the minority education reform there are no chances to reincarnate it. However, he admits that he does not have an answer to the question ‘how to accommodate different views and positions.

Latvijas Avize interviews the new Riga City Council Mayor Aivars Aksenoks. He states that ‘Latvian Riga is among his top priorities ‘Latvian in regard to the citys architecture, history and attitude towards people.

Vesti Segodnya declares that the USA President George Bush during his visit to Latvia will state that democracy first of all means the observation of national minority rights.

Diena prints an article about the exhibition of Armenian artists devoted to the Armenian Genocide committed by Ottoman Turkey in 1915 opened in Riga. The daily also features views of Armenian artist who permanently lives in Latvia Vartuzs Karapetjans. He states that he does not feel hatred towards Turkey, however, he does not want Turkey to be in the EU and that Turkish is the official EU language.