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.

• Ombudsman Juris Jansons presented the Annual Report 2012 to the MPs
• Vladimirs Lindermans and Jevgenijs Osipovs elected to the Parliament of Unrepresented

 Yesterday, the Ombudsman Juris Jansons presented its Annual Report 2012 at the Saeima’s plenary session. In the report, the Ombudsman concentrated more on social and economic rights in Latvia. Vesti Segodnya notes that the Ombudsman did not mention in the Report issues regarding status of Russian language and mass-scale non-citizenship, despite the language referendum held in February and scandal around refusal of the Central elections Committee to initiate referendum procedure on granting citizenship to all non-citizens. Latvijas Avize, in its turn, notes that the MPs from the Nationalists’ union All for Latvia!-FF/LNIM criticized the Ombudsman for not mentioning issues regarding incitement of hatred and linguistic discrimination of ethnic Latvians.

30 members got elected in the Parliament of Unrepresented initiated by the Congress of Non-Citizens. 21 of 30 of the members are non-citizens. Among the elected members there are well known left-wing radicals – leaders of the party For Native Language Vladimirs Lindermans and Jevgenijs Osipovs, activist for non-citizens’ rights Aleksandrs Gaponenko, and the head of the Latvian Anti-Fascist Committee Josefs Korens. As reported, about 15,000 persons took part in the elections to the Parliament of Unrepresented. Diena