The terrorist organization Daesh is using terror to "shift people's attention from the Middle East" as they're losing terrain in Syria and Iraq, according Polish army officer Major Rafal Zgryziewicz, who has researched Daesh's information strategy for NATO's Riga-based STRATCOMCOE.
The Economics Ministry plans on reviewing energy subsidies for select energy producers, as it's getting more and more difficult to keep consumer energy bills small, reported Latvian Television's "De Facto" Sunday.
In February a mere 5.4% of voters would have cast their ballots for the coalition party Unity, according to a SKDS poll prepared for Latvian Television's "De Facto". The party is seeing historically low ratings and is bogged down by scandals, reported Latvian Television Sunday.
Latvia's financial crimes police force have raided a senior member of controversial Trasta Komercbanka (TKB) as part of a money laundering investigation, LTV's De Facto investigative journalism program said Sunday night.
The Forge of Happiness (Latvian - Laimes kalve) society, which has ties to the Scientology movement, has held lectures in several Latvian schools, Latvian Television's investigative journalism team De Facto reported Sunday. Representatives of the movement have lectured children as young as ten, and say about 2,000 pupils have heard them across Latvia.
Stopping the development of the existing pathology labs to create a new one with the help of a pharmacy giant - such a scenario may play out if Roche, the third-largest pharma company in the world, will gift Latvia with medical equipment worth millions of euros. This has been made possible by Health Minister Guntis Belēvičs' visit to Roche's headquarters in Switzerland, Latvian Television's De Facto reported Sunday.
How Latvia knows which asylum seekers should be granted refugee status, and how can we be sure about their true intentions? On Sunday, investigative journalism team "De Facto" revealed how the Border Guard and Security Police screen and interview asylum seekers who have arrived in Latvia.
"The Kremlin's fog" (Kremļa miglā), a new documentary by LTV's acclaimed De Facto investigative team presents the ways in which the power of the Kremlin is used, and ideas expedient to it are spread - in the rest of the world in general and Latvia in particular.
Latvia may lose access to EU funding for the clean-up of the toxic sludge that has been threatening the groundwater and souring the air in the Inčukalns countryside since the 1960s, according to Latvian Television investigative news program de facto, aired on Sunday.
The so-called Latvian Human Rights Committee, connected to pro-Russian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka, received about €95,000 from the Fund for the Legal Protection and Support of Russian Federation Compatriots Living Abroad last year, reported Latvian Television LTV’s investigative news program De facto Sunday.
Viktor Yushchenko, former president of Ukraine said in an interview Sunday that the western nations were completely unprepared for Vladimir Putin’s aggressive actions against his country and called for them to supply it with lethal weapons of defense against the Russia’s offensive invasion.
Since the launch of the liquefied natural gas terminal in Klaipeda, gas from Lithuania can now technically be supplied to Latvia, however the Latvian gas utility Latvijas Gaze has put up new rules which limit gas supplies while precluding consumers in Latvia from using gas from Lithuania, Latvian Public Television (LTV) investigative news program De facto reported Sunday.
The citizen of Latvia who was reported to have been killed while fighting for Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine is likely to have made the contacts which led him to join the fight there while serving time in Russian prison years ago, reported Olga Dragileva of Latvian Public Television (LTV) investigative news program De Facto Sunday.
