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.

• Council of Europe questions nominees for post of the Commissioner for Human Rights
• Aleksandrs Kazakovs asks the Minister of Interior Eriks Jekabsons to exclude him from the list of persons whom entrance into Latvia is denied
• Journalist of the national radical newspaper DDD Ilze Liepa becomes assistant for the MP Arvids Ulme

Yesterday the Council of Europe questioned nominees for post of the Commissioner for Human Rights. Latvia has nominated Nils Muiznieks, former Integration Minister. According to the daily

Yesterday the Council of Europe questioned nominees for post of the Commissioner for Human Rights. Latvia has nominated Nils Muiznieks, former Integration Minister. According to the daily Diena, the Council of Europe asked Nils Muiznieks about observation of minority rights in Latvia and possible solutions to human rights problems. A representative of the Russian delegation reproached Nils Muiznieks for taking part in the development of the Russophobic state policy in Latvia. Diena

Aleksandrs Kazakovs, representative of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-language schools who was expelled from Latvia last autumn, has applied to the Minster of Interior Eriks Jekabsons asking to exclude him from the list of persons whom entrance into Latvia is denied. In his application Aleksandrs Kazakovs stresses that all accusations (including a call to maintain education in the Russian language, grant Latvian citizenship to all non-citizens, and warnings about a possibility of ethnic conflict) were only the realisation of the freedom of speech.

Aleksandrs Kazakovs, representative of the Headquarters for the Defence of Russian-language schools who was expelled from Latvia last autumn, has applied to the Minster of Interior Eriks Jekabsons asking to exclude him from the list of persons whom entrance into Latvia is denied. In his application Aleksandrs Kazakovs stresses that all accusations (including a call to maintain education in the Russian language, grant Latvian citizenship to all non-citizens, and warnings about a possibility of ethnic conflict) were only the realisation of the freedom of speech. Chas, Vesti Segodnya

The journalist of the national radical newspaper

The journalist of the national radical newspaper DDD Ilze Liepa has became an assistant of the MP Arvids Ulme (the Union of Farmers and Greens). As reported, there has been initiated a criminal prosecution against Ilze Liepa and another journalist of this newspaper Liga Muzikante for their publications which call to ethnic hatred. It should be noted that the Saeima Presidium has refused to extend accreditation of these journalists in the Saeima. Latvijas Avize, Chas