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.

• President’s Advisory Committee on Ethnic Minorities proposed to introduce the Day of Tolerance
• Court decision allows writing of patronyms in passports

Latvijas Avize reports about a meeting of the President’s Advisory Committee on Ethnic Minorities. Members of the Committee discussed expressions of tolerance and intolerance in the society.  The President Andris Berzins supported one of the proposal mentioned during the meeting to introduce the Day of Tolerance in Latvia on 16 November.

Vesti Segodnya reports about a decision of the Administrative Court of Riga District regarding writing of patronyms in passports. Claim to the court was submitted by an ethnic Russian who was refused by the Citizenship and Migration Affairs Office to write his patronymic in row with name and surname in passport. The applicant referred to the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities arguing that a patronym is a part of his Russian name historically. The court acknowledged that original form of Russian personal name contain three parts – name, patronym and surname – and its transliteration in Latin letters should be written in passport fully after person’s will. Latvian legislation allows the transliteration of original of non-Latvian names on a separate page in passports.