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.

• National Council on Electronic Mass Media approved a decision on establishment of a Russian language TV channel
• Weekly Sestdiena questions an expert and a politician on whether Latvia should accept Syrian refugees
• Vesti Segodnya interviews Juris Millers - director of a musical about Herbets Cukurs

The National Council on Electronic Mass Media approved a conceptual decision on establishment of a Russian language TV channel. It is planned that the channel would also have special programs for residents of Latgale (Eastern Latvian region). The establishment of the third LTV channel should be approved by the government. Latvijas Avize

Weekly Sestdiena interviews a professor of the Riga Graduate School of Law Martins Mits and the MP Atis Lejins (Unity) on whetherLatvia should accept Syrian refugees who presently are located in Southern European countries. According to Martins Mits, asLatvia is the EU member state, it cannot distance itself from refugee problems. It is unfair that such countries as Greece, Spain and Italy solve the problem of Syrian refugees, and especially, because, these countries cannot handle it anymore. Therefore, it is important to discuss what number of refugees each country can accept, includingLatvia, believes Mr Mits. Moreover, by taking part in acceptance of refugees,Latvia would prove that it is full-fledged member of the international society. The MP Lejins, in his turn, believes that Latvia has enough of its own economic problems but accommodation of refuges is very expensive and the state cannot afford it. He also says that during Soviet era large number of immigrants moved toLatvia and we should firstly solve this problem.

Vesti Segodnya interviews Juris Millers - director of a musical about Herbets Cukurs member of the "Arajs Kommando", which was responsible for the mass murders inLatvia during the Nazi occupation in the 1940s and famous Latvian aviation pioneer during the 1930s. As reported, the musical was condemned by minority NGOs in Latvia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkevics and the director of Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Efraim Zuroff. J. Millers believes that the fact the Herberts Cukurs was the member of an organisation responsible for mass murders does not make him a murderer automatically. According to J. Millers, the musical raises many questions about Cukurs and his choices. He also believes that there should be a fair trail for Cukurs, and unless he is sentenced by the court nobody has a right to call him criminal.