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.

• State Security Police initiates a second criminal case for incitement to ethnic hatred against two journalists
• FHRUL prepares amendments which will provide automatic grant of Latvian citizenship to all non-citizens of Latvia

At the end of July the State Security Police initiated a second criminal case against the two journalists of the national radical newspaper

At the end of July the State Security Police initiated a second criminal case against the two journalists of the national radical newspaper DDD for incitement to ethnic hatred in its publications. On the request of the chairman of the Russian National Culture Society Genadijs Stobovs, the Security Police examined several articles, published by the DDD. In these articles Russians were called ‘cells of cancer, ‘occupants and ‘external enemies of Latvia. Diena, Latvijas Avize, Chas, Telegraf

Chas prints an article by the MP Vladimirs Buzajevs (parliamentary group of the union For Human Rights in the United Latvia) about naturalisation process in Latvia. According to Vladimirs Buzajevs, the parliamentary group develops amendments which will provide the automatic grant of Latvian citizenship to all non-citizens.