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.

• Chas features an article about skinheads and White Power in Latvia
• Four of seven Somalians were issued residency permit

Chas features an article about skinheads and a racist movement White Power in Latvia. According to the newspaper police have recorded a record-high number of racially motivated crimes within this year. The newspaper interviews a representative of skinheads and he says that skinheads are committing violent attacks and making verbal abuses towards dark-skinned people because they want to prevent the influx of migrants into the country. The columnist of the newspaper argues that in fact the main enemies of skinheads in Latvia are not dark-skinned people, but National Bolsheviks. The leader of National Bolsheviks in Riga states that the movement White Power has become fashionable among young Europeans all over Europe, including Latvia, and it is a response towards the influx of Muslims and migrants.

Diena reports that four of seven Somalians, who recently were granted an alternative status in Latvia, received residency permits, while residency permits of another three Somalians will be issued in the nearest future.