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.

• Articles on the debates on human rights and democracy in the PACE
• Vesti Segodnya: domestic construction enterprises believe that Latvia has to open its labour market for guest workers from CIS countries
• Article by Chas columnist on the reasons why non-citizens do not naturalise

Vesti Segodnya and Chas feature articles on the debate on human rights and democracy in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In an interview with Vesti Segodnya and Chas, the Chairperson of the PACEs Sub-Committee on Rights of Minorities Boriss Cilevics has pointed to the report on human rights in Europe presented at the PACEs session. According to the PACEs representative, the report addresses the problem of mass non-citizenship in some member states of the Council of Europe and calls for granting citizenship to persons who have lost their nationality involuntary. Boriss Cilevics believed that this PACEs concern is caused by citizenship situation in Latvia and Estonia.

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Vesti Segodnya reports that domestic construction enterprises are concerned with the lack of labour force. Some employers believe that Latvia should open its labour market for guest workers from CIS countries.

Chas prints an article by a columnist on the reasons why he and other Latvian non-citizens do not naturalize. The columnist believes that naturalisation procedure is humiliating and Latvian citizenship had to be granted him automatically given that he was born in Latvia. The columnist also is not willing to pass the history test in which a person has to agree that Latvia was occupied by Soviet Union.