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.

• Telegraf prints an article on a proposal to grant Latvian non-citizens voting rights in municipal elections

Telegraf prints an article by the co-chairman of the Union of Citizens and Non-citizens Vladimirs Sokolovs on a proposal to grant Latvian non-citizens voting rights in municipal elections. According to Mr. Sokolovs, the fact that non-citizens are deprived of any political rights might be considered as direct discrimination on ethnic grounds because 99,5 % of non-citizens in Latvia are non-Latvians. Vladimirs Soklovs also claims that the majority of governing coalitions parties will not support the proposal because they are afraid to fail at elections due to a possibility that majority of non-citizens would not vote them.