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Latvian Constitutional Court Gives Green Light to Language Referendum
By admin at 25 January, 2012, 4:51 pm
On January 20, the Latvian Constitutional Court decided against suspending a referendum on the proposal to make Russian a second state language in Latvia, the Baltic News Service reported. According to the Rīga-based newswire, the referendum will thus take place on February 18, 2012, as planned, Constitutional Court chairman Gunārs Kūtris said following the hearing. [...]
Read More >>Rīga Mayor: Referendum on Russian as Second State Language Will Be Unsuccessful
By admin at 22 November, 2011, 5:27 pm
The upcoming referendum on the Russian language as a second state language in Latvia will not be successful, said Rīga City Mayor Nils Ušakovs, a leader of the leftist pro-Russia Harmony Center, who, in the capacity of an ordinary citizen, signed in support to the proposal, the Baltic News Service reported. According to the Rīga-based [...]
Read More >>Cabinet of Ministers Award Presented to Five Distinguished Individuals
By admin at 22 November, 2011, 5:24 pm
On November 17, 2011, a day before Latvian Independence Day, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis and the members of his cabinet presented the Cabinet of Ministers Award to five distinguished individuals. This is one of the highest awards given by the Latvian government for a remarkable contribution to the country’s development. The Cabinet of Ministers Award [...]
Read More >>Students Protest Education Budget Cuts Outside Cabinet Building in Rīga
By admin at 15 November, 2011, 1:35 pm
Some 700 students from various higher education institutions gathered outside the Cabinet of Ministers building in Rīga on November 4 to protest education budget cuts planned by the government, the Baltic News Service reported. According to the Rīga-based newswire, before marching to the government building, the students had gathered by the Latvian Academy of Arts, [...]
Read More >>14,085 Voters Abroad Took Part in Early Elections of the 11th Saeima
By admin at 21 September, 2011, 4:33 pm
On September 17, Latvian citizens abroad had the possibility to take part in the elections of the 11th Saeima at 77 polling stations in 39 states around the world. When compared to the 10th Saeima elections, 13 additional polling stations had been set up, also in the countries where previously there were none. The largest [...]
Read More >>Latvian Cabinet Committee Supports Proposal for Drafting Lobbying Law
By admin at 31 August, 2011, 12:53 pm
The Latvian Cabinet committee, which reviews proposals before they are put before the government, has supported the proposal by the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) for drafting the lobbying law, the Baltic News Service reported. KNAB representative Diāna Kurpniece told the Riga-based newswire that one of the reasons why lobbyists had to be identified [...]
Read More >>Latvian Unemployment Drops to 11.9 % in Mid-August
By admin at 24 August, 2011, 9:51 am
The registered unemployment rate in Latvia was 11.9 percent of the economically active population in mid-August, down 0.2 percentage points from late July, announced the National Employment Agency (NVA), the Baltic News Service reported. According to figures quoted by BNS, the number of the jobless registered with the NVA at the beginning of this week [...]
Read More >>Latvian Unemployment Drops to 12.3% in Second Half of July
By admin at 26 July, 2011, 3:04 pm
The registered unemployment rate in Latvia in the second half of July this year was 12.3 percent of the economically active population, declining 0.1 percentage points from the week before, BNS reported, quoting information from the National Employment Agency (NVA). According to BNS, the number of the jobless registered with the NVA on July 24 [...]
Read More >>Public Awareness of Competence of Anti-Corruption Office Improves in Latvia
By admin at 5 July, 2011, 3:26 pm
Public awareness about the scope of competence of the Latvian Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) has increased over the last three years, and most of the applications submitted to the anti-corruption office deal with possible corruption crimes in municipal authorities and business companies, KNAB reported to BNS. The percentage of applications about matters falling [...]
Read More >>Valdis Zatlers: „It Is Necessary to Seperate Politics from Business and to Reduce the Gap between Society and State Authority”
By admin at 21 June, 2011, 4:18 pm
On June 16, in his last address to Saeima president Valdis Zatlers stressed that separating politics from business is the most urgent task. He also pointed to a gap between society and state authority. Zatlers went on to say that unlike other pre-election periods when politicians are reluctant to take unpopular measures that might put [...]
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