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• Voluntary ethnicity entry to be re-introduced in passports starting with 1 April 2013
• 1,051 persons received administrative citations  for violation of the State Language Law in 2012

 The Cabinet of Ministers adopted amendments to the Rules of the Cabinet of Minister on Personal Identification Documents which re-introduce voluntary record on person’s ethnic affiliation in Latvian passportsstarting with 1 April 2013. As reported, initiators of amendments the MPs from the nationalist union All for Latvia!/FF-LNIM believe such record strengthens national identity of ethnic Latvians. The voluntary record on ethnic affiliation was allowed in passports in the past, but was stopped in spring 2012  following recommendations by ECRI and international practice. Vesti Segodnya

 The State Language Centre (SLC) issued  1,051 persons with administrative citations for violation of the State Language Law in 2012. In total, the SLC received 1,144 complaints on violations which is twice the number received in 2011. Vesti Segodnya