Our favorite YouTuber is back with some April-appropriate offerings to enhance your Latvian language skills and your critical thinking skills at the same time.
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On 25 March 2021, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution titled “Global Media and Information Literacy Week”, which was drafted and co-sponsored by Latvia together with a number of other like-minded countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement.
Latvian public service media - Latvian Radio, Latvian Television and LSM.lv - have maintained a high level of trust over the past year, study results published March 24 by National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) show.
From 13:00 Rīga time (GMT +2) on March 24, the Nordic Baltic business forum will focus on the Nordic Approach to the European Green Deal and Green transition in Latvia, and LSM will be providing a live stream of the event.
Our favorite YouTuber, Anete Germane, a.k.a. the Irregular Latvian, is back with a roundup of major, minor, trivial and terrific Latvian news stories for English speakers.
The general air of ennui, boredom and can't-be-botheredness that is characterizing the early months of 2021 extends even into the non-existent minds of online 'bots' according to the latest report from the Rīga-based NATO Strategic Communciations Center of Excellence (STRATCOMCOE).
LTV's "Latvian Code" strand of online documentary films has another offering for you, complete with English-language subtitles.
The Rīga-based NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (STRATCOMCE) is back with another online expert discussion February 24 with the regulation of social media platforms in focus.
LTV's "Latvian Code" strand of online documentary films has another offering for you, complete with English-language subtitles.
Banning Russian television channels in Latvia could lead to dissatisfaction as many TV viewers will have their habits interrupted, Rīga Stradiņš University professor, media expert Anda Rožukalne told Latvian Radio February 10.
LTV's "Latvian Code" strand of online documentary films has another offering for you, complete with English-language subtitles.
Just one day after Latvia's broadcast regulator announced a year-long suspension for the Rossija RTR television channel on Latvian territory, measures against 16 other Russian-language TV channels were confirmed.
Latvia's broadcast regulator, the National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) has announced that it is banning the retransmission and distribution of the Russian “Rossija RTR” channel in the territory of Latvia for a full year.
LTV's "Latvian Code" strand of online documentary films has another offering for you, complete with English-language subtitles.
Latvian Television (LTV) has prepared another in its series of short historical documentary films, 'The Keys' complete with English-language subtitles, looking at important moments and subjects in Latvian history.
Amid the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago, the Baltic nations fought to maintain their independence and freedom, while die-hard believers in the Soviet empire saw ways to force them back under Moscow's control.
Latvian Television (LTV) has prepared another in its series of short historical documentary films, 'The Keys' complete with English-language subtitles, looking at important moments and subjects in Latvian history.
The Rīga-based NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (STRATCOMCOE) returns with another online discussion January 20, with the topics of fact-checking and debunking in the frame.
Latvian Television (LTV) has prepared another in its series of short historical documentary films, 'The Keys' complete with English-language subtitles, looking at important moments and subjects in Latvian history.
Public service media - Latvian Television, Latvian Radio and the web portal lsm.lv of which the English-language service you are now reading is a part, have now left the commercial advertising market.
Our favorite YouTuber, Anete Germane, is back with another in her informative series of 'Irregular Latvian' videos.
The pandemic time has highlighted a huge problem in Latvian society -- a lack of media literacy, not knowing how to critically assess the information or how to distinguish between objective and biased information, Latvian Radio reported December 17.
If you are finding it hard to get in the festive mood due to the widespread woes in the world, help is at hand from our favorite YouTuber, Anete Germane a.k.a the Irregular Latvian.
Wednesday, December 2 sees Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs taking a leading part in a live online discussion under the auspices of the United Nations about COVID-19-related misinformation and disinformation.
Agris Kociņš, from Bauska, central Latvia, is an ex-policeman who received Latvia's highest civil decoration, the Order of the Three Stars, twelve years ago. He was awarded as one of the eight Bauska policemen who defended the Interior Ministry on January 20, 1990 from an assault by an OMON special police force at a pivotal point for Latvian independence.
Latvian Television (LTV) has prepared another in its series of short historical documentary films, 'The Keys' complete with English-language subtitles, looking at important moments and subjects in Latvian history.
An annual media industry conference run by the Stockholm School of Economics in Rīga will be free to view online on Wednesday November 25.
We are pleased to bring you another of the podcasts produced by the Stockholm School of Economics in Rīga in which LSM editor Mike Collier talks to guests who are experts in a particular field, from CEOs and artists to media strategists and researchers.
Our favorite YouTuber, Anete Germane, is back with a particularly topical video. In full-on patriotic mood, she guides us through the great array of things that are considered symbols of Latvia.
Latvian Television has prepared another in its series of short historical documentaries, and this one could not be more topical, telling of the events of November 18, 1918 -- the day Latvia proclaimed its indepdendence -- as well as events leading up to it.
Latvian Television has prepared another in its series of short documentary films "Keys To Latvian History" complete with English-language subtitles.
We have another of the side events of the Rīga Conference for you as a livestream.