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.

• Merger of the Naturalisation Board and the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs will be realised without amending the Citizenship Law
• National radicals want to receive LVL 4,000,000 and public apologies from the Security Police and the General Prosecutors Office
• State Language Centre actively inspects state language proficiency of municipal deputies

Merger of the Naturalisation Board (NB) and the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) will be realised without amending the Citizenship Law. According to the Ministry of Interior, there will be no need to amend the Citizenship Law if the NB becomes a structural unit of the OCMA with the same title. As reported, opening the Citizenship Law to amendments could provoke aggressive ethnic rhetoric and submissions of numerous draft amendments by nationalistic and pro-Russian parties.Vesti Segodnya, Diena

National radical Aivars Garda and editors of his newspaper DDD Ilze Liepa and Liga Muzikante claim for compensation in amount of LVL 4,000,000 (EUR 5,691,487) and public apologies from the Security Police and the General Prosecutors Office for initiation of two criminal cases against them. As reported, the national radicals were charged for statements inciting to ethnic hatred in several articles published in DDD in 2004 and 2005 but later acquitted. According to Aivars Garda, the money will be spent on liberation of ethnic Latvian nation from Soviet colonists. Vesti Segodnya

Vesti Segodnya reports that the State Language Centre (SLC) actively inspects state language proficiency of municipal deputies. The inspectors already punished several deputies of the Rezekne and Daugavplis City Councils and planning to check language proficiency of deputies in Jekabplis, Liepaja and Riga. According to the chief of the SLC Language Control Department Antons Kursitis, the inspectors choose deputies for inspection following complaints received from residents.