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.

• Aleksandrs Gaponenko: ethnic Russians in Latvia are disoriented

Vesti Segodnya interviews one of the leaders of the Non-citizens Congress Aleksandrs Gaponenko. Mr Gaponenko says that discrimination of ethnic Russians inLatvia is still a topical issue. He compares situation in Ukrainian Donbas with situation inLatvia saying that residents of Donbas stood for protection of their interests with arms, but Russian residents ofLatvia didn’t even though their situation is much worse. He also believes that ethnic Russians inLatvia are disoriented and in the Russian movement there is a large number of the Security Police’s agents.