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.

• Diena on prevention of racist attacks
• Official of the Office of the Citizenship and Migration Affairs is suspected of taking a bribe
• Article calling for Russians more active participation in defending their rights

Diena prints articles on the racist attack on two Somalis and on the possible measures to prevent racist crimes. According to Diena, two Somalis who were recently attacked by several persons presumably skinheads in the centre of Riga are afraid of next possible assaults. The Vice President of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance Nils Muiznieks has pointed to two possible measures to prevent racially motivated assaults which have not been effectively applied in Latvia so far - sentencing to imprisonment and the polices preventive work with skinheads. The head of the Riga municipal police informs about the placing of video surveillance cameras in several places in Riga. However, the Chair of the Afrolatvian Association Christopher Ejugbo believes that the number of surveillance cameras is quite small. According to the press secretary of the State Security Police Kristine Apse – Krumina, there are several groups of skinheads being under the observation of the police. The official also points to the contacts of these groups with several radical political and civic organisations.

Chas reports that the prosecutor has brought a charge against a senior expert of the Ventspils department of the Office of the Citizenship and Migration Affairs for his alleged taking a bribe of amount Ls400 (EUR570) from a person willing to postpone his residence permit in Latvia.

Chas features an article by a columnist condemning passivity of many Russians in protests against education reform and calling the representatives of the Russian community to increase efforts in defending their interests.