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.

• Memorial to saviour of Jews Zanis/Janis Lipke desecrated
• Experts comment on declining naturalisation figures

Newspapers report that the memorial to Zanis/Janis Lipke, who saved 55 people during the Nazi occupation, has been desecrated. Unknown persons painted white lines over the memorial in Riga. The Police do not link this incident to recent desecration of Jewish cemetery.

Newspapers report that the memorial to Zanis/Janis Lipke, who saved 55 people during the Nazi occupation, has been desecrated. Unknown persons painted white lines over the memorial in Riga. The Police do not link this incident to recent desecration of Jewish cemetery. Latvijas Avize, Vesti-Segodnya

Diena publishes article about the significant and persistent decline of naturalisation figures. Most of non-citizens of Latvia are over 41 and according to experts interviewed by the newspaper, many elderly are not applying because they doubt they could pass the exams, while many middle-aged persons see naturalisation procedure as a humiliation and maintain that all permanent residents of Latvia should have been recognised as citizens once Latvia restored independence. Experts also point out that the number of non-citizens applying for Russian citizenship is growing and believe that the current crisis de-motivated many potential applicants for Latvian citizenship. Experts also believe that in the near future, the number of Latvian non-citizens will only slightly decrease, and instead Latvia should prepare itself to a wave of immigrants.