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.

• Neatkariga reports about increasing number of Ukrainians arriving to Latvia
• Russia will issue special visa for foreign citizens who want to become its citizens

Neatkariga reports about increasing number of Ukrainians arriving to Latvia. According to the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA), during the first half of 2014, it has received 9 asylum applications and granted 290 residence permits to Ukrainian citizens. The purpose of the majority of Ukrainians applying for residence permit is purchase of real estate in Latvia, family reunification, and work. The OCMA also links the increasing number of arriving Ukrainians with the military conflict in Ukraine. Head of the Union of Ukrainian Associations in Latvia Ludmila Bilinceva says she receives regularly phone calls from newly arrived Ukrainians asking questions on how to apply for refugee status in Latvia, where to learn Latvian language, how to apply for kindergarten, and etc.  

Vesti Segodnya reports that the government of the Russian Federation published a decree about new type of visa for foreign citizens acknowledged as Russian native speakers. New type of visa can be granted for a time period of one year to those foreign citizens who want to move to Russia with an aim of becoming its citizens.