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.

• Diena: draft amendments to the Citizenship Law stuck in the Saeima’s Legal Committee
• Saeima’s Society Consolidation Committee met with activists of Russian NGOs

On 29 May, the government supported the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law and forwarded those to the Legal Committee. However, members of the Committee could not come to a common agreement on many proposals. Thus, most probably the draft amendments will not be forwarded to the final revision in the Saeima in the near future. As reported, the Citizenship Law got opened for the amendments since more than 13 years with the main aim to cancel restrictions for dual citizenship and to ease the procedure on granting Latvian citizenship to children of Latvian non-citizens born in Latvia after the restoration of the independence in 1991. Diena

Yesterday, the Saeima’s Society Consolidation Committee met with activists of Russian NGOs in Latvia for the first time. The NGOs’ activists informed the members of the Committee about their activities and vision on how to consolidate the society. Vesti Segodnya, Chas