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.

• Security Police initiated a criminal proceeding on incitement to ethnic hatred against the MP Janis Iesalnieks for his comment about the tragic events in Norway
• Newspapers reader about inscription Russians out! written on a building in the centre of a town

The Security Police initiated a criminal proceeding on incitement to ethnic hatred against the member of nationalists party All for Latvia!, MP Janis Iesalnieks for his comment about the tragic events in Norway on 22 July. As reported, Janis Iesalnieks in his Twitter forum stated that multiculturalists should feel guilty for the massacre because their policy of islamisation led to insanity of the attacker. The Iesalnieks statement caused a wave of criticism in the society and pushed him to leave the post of the partys board member and announce that he will not to stand for the up-coming Saeimas election. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Diena

Chas reports about a complaint of the newspapers reader about inscription Russians out! written on abandoned building in the centre of Skulte (small town near Riga). According to the complaint, the inscription was made in spring.