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.

• Nils Usakovs: Riga City Council should accept applications in Russian
• Afrolatvian Association is going to file a lawsuit because of insulting advertisement

Latvijas Avize interviews Nils Usakovs, a Chairperson of political party Concord Centre. He stated that the status of Russian language in Latvia is perceived incorrectly: it is wrong to say that Russian is a foreign language in Latvia. This is ignorance of reality. Nils Usakovs believes that one should ensure that in Riga residents have an opportunity to submit their applications in Russian as well.

Afrolatvian Association considers that the advertisement featuring slogan “while the whites are resting, the blacks are working” is an insult. George Steele, a representative of the Afrolatvian Association, is disturbed by the recently growing tendency to use in advertisement slogans, which are insulting to minorities in Latvia.

Afrolatvian Association considers that the advertisement featuring slogan while the whites are resting, the blacks are working is an insult. George Steele, a representative of the Afrolatvian Association, is disturbed by the recently growing tendency to use in advertisement slogans, which are insulting to minorities in Latvia. Telegraf