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.

• President will proclaim draft amendments to the Citizenship Law
• Saeima supported in the second reading draft amendments forbidding usage of Soviet and Nazi symbolic

The President Andris Berzins will proclaim the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law on 20 May. According to the representatives of the President, he will also call the Saeima to pay special attention to the cases in which it is necessary to allow having dual citizenship for the group of persons who are not included by the current legal provisions.  As reported, the new amendments allows Latvian citizens to have dual citizenship with the EU member states, the European Free Trade Association, the NATO, Australia, Brazil, and New Zeeland, or countries which concluded treaties on recognition of dual citizenship with Latvia. Latvians living in other countries (such as Russia and Israel) can have dual citizenship only by special order of the Cabinet of Ministers. Diena

Yesterday, the Saeima supported in the second reading the draft amendments to the Law "On the Security of Public Entertainment and Festive Events” forbidding usage of the USSR and Nazi flags, blazons, anthems, uniform and other symbols during the public events. The draft amendments got criticized by the oppositional party Concord Centre arguing that those are aimed at equating Nazi and Soviet regimes. Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga