• “All for Latvia!” considers that naturalisation process should be stopped
• Vesti Segodnya reports about a video conference between Moscow and Riga about problems of Russian speaking residents in Latvia and Estonia
• Latvijas Avize reports about a Latvian family struggling to secure the right to Latvian citizenship to their child
• Representatives of the Ministry of Education support option to teach in Russian language in state higher education establishments

According to a member of the nationalistic political party “All for Latvia!”, nationalistic parties in Riga City Council elections suffered a defeat because a large number of recently naturalised citizens voted for parties that are addressing Russian speaking voters. Therefore, member of “All for Latvia!” considers that naturalisation process should be stopped. Vesti Segodnya

Vesti Segodnya reports about a video conference between Moscow and Riga about problems of Russian speaking residents in Latvia and Estonia held by Russian NGOs from Russia and Latvia. Russia’s NGOs presented a report on violations of rights of Russian speakers in Latvia and Estonia. According to the report, the main problem of Russian residents in Latvia is mass scale non-citizenship.

Latvijas Avize reports about a Latvian family struggling to secure the right to Latvian citizenship to their child. The parents emigrated from Latvia during Soviet times to Germany. Both received German citizenship, yet kept Latvian citizenship. However the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs refused to register their child as a Latvian citizen because of German citizenship. The family disputes the refusal in the court.

Latvijas Avize reports that representatives of the Ministry of Education support option to teach in Russian language in state higher education establishments, because such option would attract to Latvia students from Russian speaking countries. However, presently, the draft Law on Higher Education Establishment allows teaching only in official EU languages.