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.

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Yesterday the Saeima adopted as urgent the amendments to the Law on Citizenship. The draft law anticipates annulment of “window” mechanism and granting citizenship to children of non-citizens. Fifty two deputies voted for it, one was against and one - abstained.

Yesterday the Saeima adopted as urgent the amendments to the Law on Citizenship. The draft law anticipates annulment of window mechanism and granting citizenship to children of non-citizens. Fifty two deputies voted for it, one was against and one - abstained. Tevzemei un Brivibai/LNNK faction deputies supported the amendments, but the majority of DPS deputies did not vote at all. Neatkariga, Diena, Jauna Avize, Panorama Latvii, Chas, SM, Bizness & Baltiya

The National Security Council has taken a decision that Latvian Socialist Party and the people who organised a rally in Vermanis Garden in Riga against the draft Law on Education should be punished in accordance with the existing legislation. The Interior Minister A.Krastins said to the press Latvian legislation was too feeble dealing with such extremists, and the Interior Ministry had prepared proposals for the necessary amendments to the legislation.

Diena, Chas

Bizness & Baltiya

published an analytical article of the ideologist of published an analytical article of the ideologist of Tevzemei un Brivibai/LNNK, Tevzemei un Brivibai/LNNK, the Saeima Deputy J.Sinka on the problem why Russians were not loved in Latvia. He writes about the history of Latvia, and the need for every non-citizen to realise the grounds for his being in Latvia. He analyses the events in Vermanis Garden and finds the hatred of those youngsters rooting from their families. He also speaks about the important role of the Latvian language in the process of Naturalisation. the Saeima Deputy J.Sinka on the problem why Russians were not loved in Latvia. He writes about the history of Latvia, and the need for every non-citizen to realise the grounds for his being in Latvia. He analyses the events in Vermanis Garden and finds the hatred of those youngsters rooting from their families. He also speaks about the important role of the Latvian language in the process of Naturalisation.