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: skinheads do not represent a threat to national security
• Action reminding about situation of non-citizens planned to be held on 4 May

According to an annual report of the Security Police, Latvian skinheads do not represent a threat to national security, because they are not united, disorganised, and have no permanent ties with organisations and persons in other countries. The active skinheads are mostly young people using Internet as their main tool for spread of radical ideology. The Security Police initiated 12 criminal proceedings on incitement to ethnic hatred in 2011. The majority of the alleged violations were made on the Internet. Vesti Segodnya

An NGO “For Honesty and Justice” calls Latvian non-citizens to lay flowers tied with violet (colour of non-citizens’ passport) ribbon and title “Aliens are coming” and “In EU we trust” to the Monument of Latvia on 4 May – the day of restoration of Latvian independence. By such action the activists of the NGO want to remind that non-citizens still do not enjoy full rights. Vesti Segodnya