President Levits reflects on first year in office
Latvia - Latvian State President Egils Levits reflected on the first year of his four-year term of office July 3, running through a list of his achievements so far and hopes for the fut...
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Five Latvian politicians named as 'politically biased election observers'
Latvia - July 2 saw the launch of a new database from the European Platform for Democratic Elections - EPDE which attempts to identify 'fake' election observers used to help generate pr...
Baltic states update mutual consular assistance agreement
Latvia - On 2 July 2020, a renewed Agreement on Consular Assistance and Co-operation between Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania comes into force....
PM Kariņš talks about coronavirus response on CNN
Latvia - Latvian Prime Minister apeared on the American media outlet Cable News Network (CNN) July 1, talking about Latvia's widely-praised response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Europea...
Foreign ministers mull 'Three Seas' issues ahead of Estonia summit
Latvia - On 30 June 2020, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of countries involved with the 'Three Seas Initiative' (TSI) met in a video-conference, with Latvia's Edgars Rinkēvičs among t...
Kremlin propaganda channel “RT” banned in Latvia
Latvia - The National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP), in compliance with sanctions imposed by the Council of the European Union (EU), has decided to ban the distribution of seven...
Latvian PM will take part in online U.S. discussion of post-COVID economy
Latvia - On Tuesday, June 30, Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš will take part in an online discussion organized by the U.S. think tank The Heritage Foundation about the recovery ...
Estonian, Latvian presidents meet on Saaremaa
Latvia - The state presidents of Estonia and Latvia took a break from their customary meetings in either Tallinn or Rīga June 25 by meeting instead on the pretty Estonian island of Saar...
Baltic and Polish parliamentarians deplore Russian reappraisal of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
Latvia - The chairmen of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the three Baltic parliaments have released a Joint Statement June 25 expressing concern over a bill before the Russian state D...
Latvia says Putin makes a bad historian
Latvia - The Latvian Foreign Ministry has released a statement June 20 pointing out that a piece of writing with Russian President Vladimir Putin's name attached is misleading and full ...
President Levits signs major regional reforms into law
Latvia - Latvian State President Egils Levits on June 19 said he would sign a major package of regional reforms into law after it was approved by Saeima, but voiced lengthy criticism of...
Latvia objects to Russian Duma's switch on Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
Latvia - On 18 June 2020, the Latvian Foreign Ministry's Political Director, Jānis Mažeiks, met with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Latvia, Yevgeny Lukyanov (Лукьянов Евген...
Levits: We borrow now to invest in future
Latvia - Latvia is in a relatively good position in the COVID-19 crisis, and there are great opportunities to emerge from this situation stronger than before. It is possible to borrow l...
Levits: We borrow now to invest in the future
Latvia - Latvia is in a relatively good position in the COVID-19 crisis, and there are great opportunities to emerge from this situation stronger than before. It is possible to borrow l...