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.

• Latvijas Avize reports about the Prime Minister’s  Report on Latvia’s National Security
• MP Boriss Cilevics: the EU has better mechanisms at monitoring human rights in the candidate states, than in member states

Latvijas Avize reports about the Report on Latvia’s National Security by the Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma. The report stresses Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine and its impact on security in Latvia. The report says that for Russia it is beneficial to show Latvia as ethnically divided, politically and economically weak country and it is expected that propaganda and discrediting campaigns against Latvia will increase.  The report also describes different actions aimed at consolidation of the society but without evaluation of the results.  

Vesti Segodnya publishes commentary of Latvian MP Boriss Cilevics following his participation at the OSCE conference on human rights defenders in Bern. According to Mr. Cilevics, in many OSCE countries human rights defenders are experiencing repressions. The EU has good mechanisms at monitoring human rights in the candidate states, yet once a country joins the Union, most of the monitoring stops and the EU has rather limited influence. In particular, the governments in Hungary, Greece and the Baltic states are trying to hinder and discredit the work of human rights defenders by using various tactics, such as accusations of financial violations, reports by the state security structures, labelling human rights activities as "anti-state".