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.

Press Reports

Dienapublishes an article by Elena Koronovskaya about a seminar within the framework of an international project on integration in Latvia, Estonia and Russia which took place in St. Petersburg. According to a co-ordinator of the project Vladimir Veisman, the situation of Russians in the Baltic States is not hopeless, although a tradition of observing human rights cannot be created with a year.

The author of the article notes that the Russian diaspora in the Baltics is fragmented and lacks experience in protection of its culture, but hopefully it will change in future since “several hundreds of thousand people cannot, at once, get assimilated or leave.” 

The author of the article notes that the Russian diaspora in the Baltics is fragmented and lacks experience in protection of its culture, but hopefully it will change in future since several hundreds of thousand people cannot, at once, get assimilated or leave.Diena in Russian

Diena in Russian publishes a letter of Vladimir Sokolov, chair of the Union of Citizens and Non-Citizens, in which he presents an idea to organize a competition for preparation of an education system conception. The competition would help assess new ideas in this sphere.

Jauna Avize publishes an interview with the State President Guntis Ulmanis in which he stresses four important criteria for choosing a candidate for the post of Prime Minister. First, a candidate should possess political confidence which corresponds with tendencies of the Latvias development. Secondly, a candidate should professionally fit to the post. Third criteria concerns the candidates world outlook. And finally, the candidate should be able to consolidate predictable, practical persons for work in the government.