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.

• One of the sentenced persons for instigation of racial hatred appealed the courts ruling
• Latvian publicist Visvaldis Lacis: integration of non-citizens is a suicide for Latvian nation

One of the three persons sentenced for instigation of racial hatred, Maksims Cernoshovs, appealed the ruling issued by the Riga Regional Court. As reported, the court sentenced the three young men to six and twelve months suspended imprisonment for a racially motivated physical assault on a dark-skinned citizen of the United States in July 2005. The lawyer of Maksims Cernoshovs argued that the ruling is ungrounded because there were no racial motivation involved and he should be sentenced for hooliganism. The other two sentenced persons did not appeal the ruling.

One of the three persons sentenced for instigation of racial hatred, Maksims Cernoshovs, appealed the ruling issued by the Riga Regional Court. As reported, the court sentenced the three young men to six and twelve months suspended imprisonment for a racially motivated physical assault on a dark-skinned citizen of the United States in July 2005. The lawyer of Maksims Cernoshovs argued that the ruling is ungrounded because there were no racial motivation involved and he should be sentenced for hooliganism. The other two sentenced persons did not appeal the ruling. Latvijas Avize

Latvian writer and member of the Latvian Green Party Visvaldis Lacis in an interview with

Latvian writer and member of the Latvian Green Party Visvaldis Lacis in an interview with NRA stated that integration of non-citizens is a suicide for the Latvian nation: The majority of Russians and Russian-speaking residents of Latvia are hostile towards the state. The evidence are 25 members of the Saeima elected by these new citizens who had stated that there have been no communist crimes in Latvia, nor occupation… My aim is to stop integration!