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.

• National Power Union of Fatherland is planning to hold a public event Red Army – Liberators or War Criminals in then centre of Riga on 9 May
• Russian TV journalist Leonid Mlechin: Russians see Latvia as country-betrayer
• State Border Guard Service regularly detains citizens of Asian and African countries who attempt to travel to other European countries via Latvia illegally
• Diena prints an article about history of Riga Ghetto

The radical organisation National Power Union of Fatherland is planning to hold a public event “Red Army – Liberators or War Criminals” in then centre of Riga on 9 May (Victory Day). According to the leader of the organisation Viktors Birze, the aim of the event is to prove to the society that Red Army occupied Latvia and 9 May cannot be a day of celebration.

The radical organisation National Power Union of Fatherland is planning to hold a public event Red Army – Liberators or War Criminals in then centre of Riga on 9 May (Victory Day). According to the leader of the organisation Viktors Birze, the aim of the event is to prove to the society that Red Army occupied Latvia and 9 May cannot be a day of celebration. Chas, Telegraf

Famous Russian TV journalist Leonid Mlechin in an interview with

Famous Russian TV journalist Leonid Mlechin in an interview with Chas states that many Russians see Latvia as a country-betrayer because they believe that Latvia received a lot of help during Soviet times, however, after Latvia became independent it turned its back to Russia. Latvian policy towards Russian speaking residents and marches of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires on 16 March reinforce negative Latvias image in Russia.

Chas reports that the State Border Guard Service regularly detains citizens of Asian and African countries who attempt to travel to other European countries via Latvia illegally. Recently, a citizen of Morocco was placed in Olaine camp for illegal immigrants who tried to travel from Riga to Norway using fake Spanish residency permit.

Diena prints an article about history of Riga Ghetto which was established in 23 August 1941 and liquidated in 2 November 1943 when remainder Jews were transferred to concentration camps.