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.

• Amendments to the Citizenship Law are nearly complete

According to Vesti Segodnya, elaboration of a new draft amendments to the Citizenship Law is coming to an end. The most important novelty concerns dual citizenship and granting Latvian citizenship to children of non-citizens through easier procedure. According to the member of the Saeima’s subcommittee on elaboration of the Citizenship Law, MP Inese Libina-Egnere (Reforms Party), the draft is close to its final edition and it might come into force in spring 2013.