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.

• MP Peteris Tabuns asked to punish the MP Jakovs Pliners for speaking Russian with representatives of Russias Parliaments delegation
• Book Ways that We Choose on Russians in Latvia
• 124,153 persons have received Latvian citizenship through naturalisation since 1995

The MP Peteris Tabuns (For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM) has appealed to the Mandate, Ethics and Submissions Committee with a complaint that the head of the Saeima’s faction For Human Rights in United Latvia, MP Jakovs Pliners spoke Russian with representatives of Russia’s Parliament’s delegation. According to Peteris Tabuns, Jakovs Pliners had to speak only in Latvian because it is the only state language in Latvia. However, the Committee has refused to punish Mr. Pliners with an argument that MPs often speak other languages during meetings with foreign parliamentarians.

The MP Peteris Tabuns (For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM) has appealed to the Mandate, Ethics and Submissions Committee with a complaint that the head of the Saeimas faction For Human Rights in United Latvia, MP Jakovs Pliners spoke Russian with representatives of Russias Parliaments delegation. According to Peteris Tabuns, Jakovs Pliners had to speak only in Latvian because it is the only state language in Latvia. However, the Committee has refused to punish Mr. Pliners with an argument that MPs often speak other languages during meetings with foreign parliamentarians. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, NRA

Chas and Vesti Segodnya report that the president of the Russian Community of Latvia Vjaceslavs Altuhovs has issued a book Ways that We Choose on Russians in Latvia.

Vesti Segodnya reports that 124,153 persons have received Latvian citizenship through naturalisation since the procedure was launched in 1995.