Integration monitor

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.

Jan. 21, 2010

  • Vesti Segodnya prints an article about dual citizenship
  • Latvijas Avize prints an interview with the MP Dzintars Rasnacs (FF/LNIM)
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According to Vesti Segodnya, children who were born abroad in families of Latvian citizen and foreign citizen often have dual citizenship. The newspaper reports about number of cases when child of Latvian and Russian citizens is registered in both countries as its citizen and has two passports. According to a representative of the Latvian Citizenship and Migration Affairs Office, although dual citizenship officially is not allowed in Latvia, such manipulations with citizenship of under age children are not prohibited.

Latvijas Avize prints an interview with the MP Dzintars Rasnacs (FF/LNIM) about proposal of his party to switch all Latvian state funded schools into Latvian language. According to Mr. Rasnacs believes that such reform is the only way which could help to eliminate consequences of Soviet occupation in Latvia, preserve ethnic Latvians from Russification and Englification and dominance of foreign languages in Latvia.

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