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.

• Minister of the nationalists’ union sold real estate to non-EU citizens

Vesti Segodnya reports that the Minister of Culture Zanete Jaunzeme-Grende sold real estate in Riga to two third-country nationals, who now have the right to ask for residence permit in Latvia trough easier procedure. The newspaper notes that the Minister is a member of the nationalists’ union All for Latvia!/FF-LNIM who recently proposed to strike off the article from the Immigration Law which stipulates granting residence permits to foreigners who possess real estate in Latvia or made large investments in economy. The nationalists label this practice as “selling residence permits” and call to terminate it.