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.

• Former Latvian non-citizen who became Swedish citizen now can vote in the local elections in Latvia
• Nationalists’ union repeatedly prepared that draft law on transition of all kindergartens into Latvian language only

 Vesti Segodnya interviews a young man, former Latvian non-citizen who moved to Sweden and received Swedish citizenship. The young man now is registered in Latvia as permanent resident of the EU country and have right to vote in the municipal elections. According to him, it is an absurd that foreign citizens can vote while Latvian non-citizens who live here and pay taxes still do not have voting rights.

 According to Vesti Segodnya, the nationalists’ union All for Latvia!-FF/LNIM repeatedly prepared that draft law on transition of education in all municipal kindergartens into Latvian language only. This time, the nationalists proposed to start the reform with 1 September 2015. As reported, the Saeima recently refused the identical proposal of the nationalists with the only difference that the reform was planned to begin on 1 September 2014.