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Rudīte Spakovska

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EBU has reservations about public media content sharing idea
EBU has reservations about public media content sharing idea
Last week, the Saeima decided in the first reading that Latvian public media – Latvian Television and Latvian Radio, as well as LSM – would have to share their content with commercial media in order to 'strengthen the security of the information space'.
Industrial output fell 9.2% in April
Industrial output fell 9.2% in April
April was the cruelest month during the Covid-19 crisis, and for the economy too, according to newest data on Latvia's industrial production.
Graphs: Women in power
Graphs: Women in power
For International Women's Day, Latvian Radio's Rudīte Spakovska has made several infographics that illustrate where Latvian women stand in terms of being in power--or out of it.
Foreign host families misinformed over children's fates in Latvia
Foreign host families misinformed over children's fates in Latvia
International projects see some children, who have been removed from their families, go on trips to the US twice a year. During this time, for about a month, they stay in host families. The program has come under criticism, and the Welfare Ministry wants to raise the minimum age for foreign stay to twelve. This is because these visits are often tied to foreign adoption, reports Latvian Radio.
Another day, another cold record
Another day, another cold record

On the morning of May 11, the national cold record fell in Latvia, according to the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre. 

Fair share of immigration burden eludes Europe
Fair share of immigration burden eludes Europe

More than a quarter-of-a-million people fled from war and poverty in their homelands and sought refuge in Europe last year, most of them trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, now notoriously becoming rechristened the ‘Sea of Death’ due to recent tragic human trafficking incidents. However the inordinate bulk of the burden is on the shoulders of Italy and Malta, while some of their fellow member-states, including the presiding country of the Council of the EU, have been dodging the bullet for years now.