KGB documents are still being destroyed, and ignorance and lack of understanding are behind this, deputy head of the KGB research committee Kristīne Jankovska told Latvian Television Tuesday.
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Riga Mayor and social democratic Harmony party leader Nils Ušakovs thinks that the new government should be made up from the Greens and Farmers Union, Unity and his own Harmony party, he told Latvian Television Monday morning.
Latvia is one of the 65 countries that have formed a coalition against the Islamic State terrorists. If now Latvia is mostly providing humanitarian relief, the country can soon start sending soldiers to Iraq, Latvian Defense Minister Raimonds Bergmanis told Latvian Television Tuesday morning.
Latvians are more open to people from other cultures than they themselves think, said professor Guntis Zemītis, head of the Latvian University History Institute on Latvian Television Monday.
From the time when the municipality started dealing with wrecked buildings in Rīga, about 369 such houses have been demolished by the authorities, Oleg Burov, the head of the Property Department of the Riga City Council told Latvian Television Friday.
The visit of the Alexander Ensemble, an official army choir of the Russian Armed Forces, would have to be coordinated as a visit by an army unit and will be viewed accordingly, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs (Unity) told Latvian Television Monday.
Latvia is made less competitive with every adopted budget, said Bank of Latvia boss Ilmārs Rimšēvičs in an interview with the Latvian public television Wednesday.
The ruling coalition party Unity is becoming impatient with Health Minister Guntis Belēvičs (Greens and Farmers Union). After being denied access to to top-level secrets by the state security services, he told Latvian Television Friday that he isn't worried about it as access isn't necessary for the head of the Health Ministry.
The Riga municipality plans to establish a special coordination center to solve admission of refugees, said Riga City Mayor Nils Ušakovs in an interview with the Latvian public television on Thursday.
Saeima MP and the head of the Greens and Farmers Union (ZZS) faction Augusts Brigmanis, appearing on Latvian Television's Rīta Panorāma on Wednesday, said that refugees need to be have a "very clear picture of our [Latvian] lives" prior to arriving, which for the MP seems to mean small benefits, cold and unemployment.
The President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis has called for freezing the wages for MPs and other high-ranking officials and not raising them next year, the president told Latvian Television's Rīta Panorāma on Thursday.
President-elect Raimonds Vējonis’ wish to maintain residence in his suburban Ogre apartment while serving his pending term would cost more and require more complicated arrangements than just living at the presidential house in Jurmala, Lieutenant General Raimonds Graube, Commander of Latvia’s National Armed Forces (NBS) told LTV morning news Panorāma Friday.
Latvia marked its fourth National Language Day Wednesday in honor of the birthday of radical national cultural activist and one of the first keepers of the Latvian language Juris Alunāns (1832-1864).
The results of Baltic military coordination now that the time has come for showing a united line of defense are very encouraging, Latvia’s Commander of the National Armed Forces Lieutenant General Raimonds Graube told LTV news program Rīta Panorāma.
Structural reforms will be needed before more state budget resources can be allocated to certain sectors, Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma told LTV news program Rīta Panorāma Tuesday.
Unless the uniformed state agencies in charge of public safety (like the police or fire and rescue services) get significant salary hikes and extra budget resources next year, there will only be greater attrition of qualified officers from these critical jobs, Interior Ministry state secretary Ilze Pētersone-Godmane told LTV morning news program Rīta Panorāma Friday.
Thursday’s speed-control marathon on Latvia’s motorways netted plenty of traffic violators, but the main finding confirmed that the nation’s drivers do not observe road safety laws unless there is a visible police or radar camera presence.
The city’s future motorway – known as the Northern Transport Corridor is “closer to science fiction than reality,” Riga Mayor Nils Ušakovs said in an interview with LTV news program Rīta Panorāma Tuesday
Riga Mayor Nils Ušakovs told Latvian Television news program Rīta Panorāma Tuesday that the first ‘Riga Corner’ promotional stand would be launched in Minsk by summertime, after the mayors of the two nation’s capitals signed a cooperation agreement there last week.
African swine fever (ASF) continues its spread among the wild boar herds of eastern and northern Latvia, the head of the state Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) Māris Balodis told LTV news program Rīta Panorāma Thursday morning.
While elsewhere in Europe the rate of cancer fatalities has dipped by 1%, in Latvia it has remained level, Oncological Chemotherapy Association head Gunta Purkalne told Latvian Television’s morning news program Panorāma Friday.