The Constitutional Protection Bureau (SAB) and the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) have not received any information from the IT company SOAAR that it may have received encouragement from the Unity party to influence the results of the 2014 Saeima elections, Latvian Radio reported on April 25.
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On Wednesday morning, about 100 protesters gathered in front of the Riga City Council to oppose the plan to build a football stadium in Lucavsala. Meanwhile, the Riga City Council is deciding on Wednesday on the allocation of more than 10 hectares of land for the construction of a national football stadium in Lucavsala.
Jāzeps Vītols' Latvian Academy of Music (JVLMA) approached the State Police on Saturday, March 9 regarding information on the harassment of students as reported by the Latvian Television's "Culture Shock" broadcast a day earlier, the Academy reported.
For more than a year, the Ukrainian Olga's restaurant “Green Pumpkin.UA” and Irina's Cafe “Smakoliki” have been open in Latvia. Olga and Irina did not use to work in the catering sector in Ukraine, but when the Russian invasion began they came here and decided to start their businesses and offer a small part of Ukraine to Latvia. Latvian Radio visited the restaurants on February 20.
Latvia still does not have a system in place to provide the necessary stocks of medicinal products in emergencies when international supplies to Latvia may be disrupted. This issue is particularly important because 94% of the Latvian medicines market is made up of imported medicines, Latvian Radio reported on February 13.
Latvia saw a dramatic increase in electricity prices in early January, after which the association of political parties United List submitted an inquiry to the responsible ministers to the Saeima, considering that Latvenergo had not properly prepared its thermal power stations for stable and secure work during the winter period, Latvian Radio reported on January 17.
No Latvian beer producer is known to currently export its products to Russia, Pēteris Liniņš, Chairman of the Board of the Latvian Beer Producers' Union, told Latvian Radio, questioning the information in some media that Latvia and Lithuania had overtaken Belgium and the Czech Republic in their beer exports to Russia last year.
As of January 1, separate collection of biological waste should begin throughout Latvia. This means another - a brown container that says “Biological waste” - should appear alongside others. However, so far there is no response from the population and no increased interest from waste managers in collecting bio-waste, Latvian Radio reported January 4.
The past few days have brought a great cold to Latvia. It can pose health risks, especially for older people, infants, and the homeless. People have come to hospitals with frostbite, even before the New Year, Sergejs Smirnovs, head of the burns center at Riga East Clinical University Hospital (RAKUS), told Latvian Radio January 3.
At the beginning of next year, at least 1,213 Russian citizens who have not met the rules on holding a valid residence permit face the prospect of being deported to the country of their citizenship, reports LSM's Latvian language service.
Is it right and ethical to place a “Christmas tree” made of bottles of alcohol in the supermarket's food department? The law, at least for now, does not prohibit it. The advertisement is legal, but it is not quite ethical, given that Latvia is trying to reduce alcohol consumption, experts surveyed by Latvian Radio on December 1 said.
The car and bus crash in Mārupe municipality on Sunday, in which two people were killed and dozens injured, has also sparked debate over the use of seat belts on buses. It is unknown whether passengers used seatbelts on that particular bus, but the Road Transport Administration told Latvian Radio Monday that most bus passengers do not use seatbelts.
Court judgments recognizing homosexual couples as families in Latvia and the new proposed partnership framework, which will be viewed by the Saeima in the final reading this week, will not solve all the major legal and practical problems of same-sex couples' families, according to representatives of the LGBT+ community and lawyers, Latvian Radio reported November 8.