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.

• Historian Edvins Snore: celebration of 9 May in Latvia is immoral

Neatkariga prints an interview with a historian, author of a documentary “Soviet Story” Edvins Snore. Mr Snore believes that it is very important to understand that Nazi and Stalins’s regimes were equal. Mr Snore believes that Western Europe does not acknowledge the equality between the two regimes because it has not suffered from communist crimes as much as Eastern Europe. Speaking about celebration of 9 May or Victory Day in Latvia, Mr Snore states that such celebration is immoral and is celebrated by USSR colonists and their descendants and USSR military persons with families who stayed in Latvia. According to Mr Snore, the Monument to the Soviet Liberators of Riga from Nazi Invaders should be demolished as it glorifies destruction of the state and hinders Latvia’s development