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.

• Deadline nears to take measures on the spelling of names
• Aivars Slucis equates ethnic Russians to a forest and calls to rarefy it

Vesti-Segodnya reports that the deadline of 29 May is nearing for Latvia to take measures to implement the decision of the UN Human Rights Committee in the case of Raihman v. Latvia. As reported, the UN HR Committee found that by unilaterally modifying the applicants name (attached ending s), Latvia violated the Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which encompasses the right to choose and change one's own name. According to the newspaper, since no measures were takes to implement the decision, the leader of NGO Return our Names!, deputy of the Riga City Council Ruslan Pankratov raises the issue in letters sent to respective Latvian and EU bodies.

Latvijas Avize published an article by Latvian American Aivars Slucis, who calls for establishment of new ethnic Latvian party National Farmers Union, targeting those who represent countryside and small towns of Latvia. The author believes that other problems in Latvia could not be resolved as long as ethnic Russians in Latvia represent more than 10-15% of population. Ethnic Russians are like a forest, where our deceivers and corrupt are hiding. The time has come to rarefy the forest. Latvijas Avize (19.05.2011), Vesti-Segodnya