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.

• Vesti Segodnya criticizes the Citizenship Law as it envisage that only ethnic Latvians and Lives belong to notion of a “state nation”
• Study: majority of non-citizens have accustomed to the fact that they are not Latvian citizens

Vesti Segodnya criticizes recently accepted draft amendments to the Citizenship Law as those envisage that only ethnic Latvians and Lives belong to notion of a “state nation.” According to the newspaper, such definition excludes representative of all other ethnicities residing in Latvia from the concept of state nation and divides citizens into two categories: the titular nationality and others. The newspaper also notes that the provisions about dual citizenship divide also ethnic Latvians living abroad into “right” and “wrong”, the “right” ones being only those ethnic Latvians who reside or received citizenship of countries members of the EU, the European Free Trade Association, the NATO or Australia, Brazil, and New Zeeland, or countries concluded treaties on recognition of dual citizenship with Latvia. Ethnic Latvians living in other countries can have dual citizenship only by special order of the Cabinet of Ministers.

According to a study “Opinion of the Third Country Nationals and Latvian Non-Citizens about Latvian Citizenship and Reasons which Promote or Hinder Adoption of Citizenship” conducted the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, majority of non-citizens have considered adoption of Latvian citizenship some time ago but later refused such idea for different reasons and got accustomed to the situation. Non-citizens indicated that they do not feel any sufficient inconvenience that they are not Latvian citizens. Neatkariga