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.

• FF/LNIM has submitted to the Saeima the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law and Repatriation and Emigration Law
• Chas features an interview with a coordinator of a researcher Practice and Perspectives of Integration Inese Supule
• Leader of the political party The Concord Centre Nils Usakovs: the Russian language strengthens its positions

The Saeima’s faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM has submitted to the Saeima the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law and to the Repatriation and Emigration Law. FF/LNIM proposes to close the Naturalisation Board; to stop granting citizenship to residents of Latvia who arrived to Latvia during the Soviet period and to promote voluntary departure of these persons from Latvia. The Saeima is planning to review the proposals on Thursday.

The Saeimas faction For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM has submitted to the Saeima the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law and to the Repatriation and Emigration Law. FF/LNIM proposes to close the Naturalisation Board; to stop granting citizenship to residents of Latvia who arrived to Latvia during the Soviet period and to promote voluntary departure of these persons from Latvia. The Saeima is planning to review the proposals on Thursday. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize

Chas features an interview with a coordinator of a researcher Practice and Perspectives of Integration conducted by the Baltic Institute of Social Sciences Inese Supule on integration processes in Latvia. Ms. Supule stated that signs of a two-community society are observable on a political scene: Parties are divided according to ethnic line and accordingly they divide the electorate. Inese Supule also considered that the main integration principle for all residents of Latvia should be a common conception about safe future.

The leader of the political party “The Concord Centre” Nils Usakovs in an interview with

The leader of the political party The Concord Centre Nils Usakovs in an interview with Telegraf argues that the Russian language strengthens its positions in Latvia, because its usage in public information becomes more frequent.