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.

• Naturalisation rate continues to fall
• Telegraf reports about a meeting of organisations representing Russian speaking minorities in Europe

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According to Vesti Segodnya, the rate of naturalisation in Latvia has decreased so significantly, that now it matches the rate of naturalisation in 1996. Since the beginning of 2009, Latvian citizenship was granted only to 1,386 persons. In 2008, citizenship was granted to 3,004 persons, while at the peak of naturalisation in 2005, 19,169 persons received Latvian citizenship trough naturalisation.

Telegraf reports about a meeting of organisations representing Russian speaking minorities in France, Spain, Cyprus and Latvia (represented by the newspaper Telegraf). The organisations, in the framework of the European program Grundtvig, conduct survey of Russian speaking residents in Europe with an aim to compose an image of Russian European resident. During the visit representatives of the organisations met with the MPs, the Mayor of Riga Nils Usakovs and academicians.