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.

• Latvijas Avize prints an article state language positions and government stance concerning these issues
• Head of the Council of Jewish Parishes and Communities: international Jewish organisations will get involved in issues concerning compensations for the Latvian Jewish Community

Latvijas Avize provides its views regarding positions of the state language and interprets the governments attitude towards the issue. The columnist of the newspaper believes that the Latvian language yields to the dominance of the Russian language in a number of business areas. The columnist criticizes the decision of the government to refuse a proposal to introduce norms stipulating higher fines for failure to use or insufficient use of the state language in certain areas. As reported, last week, the Saeima has declined the draft amendments to the Administrative Violations Code proposed by For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM to increase fines for violations regarding use of the Latvian language.

Head of the Latvian Council of Jewish Parishes and Communities Arkadijs Suharenko in an interview with

Head of the Latvian Council of Jewish Parishes and Communities Arkadijs Suharenko in an interview with NRA stated that international Jewish organisations will get involved in the issue of allotting compensations for the Latvian Jewish Community for lost properties during the Holocaust. As reported, in November, the majority of the Saeima did not support the draft law on granting LVL 32,000,000 (EUR 45,531,897) and some real estate buildings to the Jewish Community.