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 Report

The latest edition of the Russian-language TV program "From the Position of Power" was crowded by journalists to ask their questions to MP Boris Cilevics from For Human Rights in United Latvia and Agris Timuska from the State Language Center about the draft regulations for the State Language Law.

The latest edition of the Russian-language TV program "From the Position of Power" was crowded by journalists to ask their questions to MP Boris Cilevics from For Human Rights in United Latvia and Agris Timuska from the State Language Center about the draft regulations for the State Language Law. Vesti

22,000 or 7% of non-citizens have not exchanged their old USSR passports for Latvia's non-citizen passports.

22,000 or 7% of non-citizens have not exchanged their old USSR passports for Latvia's non-citizen passports. Diena, Neatkariga

More and more people in Latvia obtain citizenship through naturalization but also the opposite procedure takes place - people give up citizenship or are deprived of it. There are too main reasons for deprivation of citizenship - a person has become a double citizen or provided false information when obtaining Latvian citizenship.

More and more people in Latvia obtain citizenship through naturalization but also the opposite procedure takes place - people give up citizenship or are deprived of it. There are too main reasons for deprivation of citizenship - a person has become a double citizen or provided false information when obtaining Latvian citizenship. Neatkariga

German newspaper

German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes that Moscow for months has carried out campaign against the Baltics considering itself endangered and slandered. After the statements released by the Russian Foreign Ministry, it seems that Moscow is most endangered not by the far-away America but rather by the asylum for fascists, revanchists and forgers of history by the Russian border. Neatkariga

Leonids Fedosejevs in

Leonids Fedosejevs in Chas writes that the current share of Latvians in the population of Latvia is close to the situation before the World War I. The 1897 census of the Russian Empire showed that 68.3% of the population on the territory of the future Latvia were Latvians.