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.

• Government has agreed on a new requirement for naturalisation procedure
• Mayor of Kraslava rejects information about agitation published by Diena

Diena reports that the government has agreed on a new requirement for naturalisation procedure according to which an applicant will be obliged to submit a statement certifying that he/she has not been convicted of a criminal offence. The draft law elaborated by the Ministry of Interior foresees that the Citizenship and Migration Affairs Office requests information from all the operational entities in order to check compliance of individuals to specific naturalisation restrictions.

Vesti Segodnya reports that the mayor of Kraslava Gunars Upenieks rejected information published by the newspaper Diena about alleged distribution of agitation materials aimed at convincing the residents of Latgale to join their region to Russia. Representative of Security Police also expressed incomprehension about the allegations made in the article and emphasised that the situation is controlled. Following the article, the Ministry of Education begun checking Kraslava’s education establishments regarding the allegations. Mr. Upenieks, stated that the said journalist interviewed him long time ago (in August) and the subject of the interview was different - the problems caused by the African swine fever in Latgale. The interview was published on 11 November, when Latvia celebrates the war of independence of 1919. Vesti Segodnya editorial asks whether the aim of the journalist was to heighten hysteria and incite ethnic tensions.