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A Russian-speaking resident of Estonia, Artemy Ivanov aka rapper 'Temada', who caused outrage among many Rīga residents by holding street concerts in Russian during the Easter holidays, has been denied entry into Latvia, Latvian Television reported on May 11.
In the Augšdaugava municipality of souther-eastern Latvia, water levels continue to rise, at least eight roads have been flooded, as well as a summer-house co-op with residential houses has started flooding, the executive director of the municipality of Augšdaugava Pēteris Dzalbe told LETA on April 2.
Some of the trees planted as part of the urban improvement project in Aleksandra Čaka Street in Rīga have died, and it is planned to replace them with new ones. The foliage on the sunny side of the street did not withstand the recent heatwave.
Latvia's State Agency of Medicines will review whether the use of Rigvir, a drug advertised as a virotherapeutic anti-cancer medicine, should be on the state list for compensated medicines. Health Minister Anda Čaksa said that other medicines registered prior to the EU membership in 2004 will be re-evaluated too.