Section: Foreign media focused on Latvia
German Foreign Minister calls to stop fighting in Ukraine
The warring sides of the Donbas war should immediately stop fighting and fully adhere to a ceasefire, stated German Foreign Minister and the Chairperson-in-Office Frank-Walter Steinmeier on February 4. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Six additional Ukrainian TV channels to appear in Europe, including Baltic States
Six additional TV channels will be transmitted over Europe, including Baltic states, announced satellite operator SES, who’s one of the teleports operates in Riga, providing satellite communications services to broadcasters over more than 50 orbital satellite fleet. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Attacks intensify in Ukraine’s east
Pro-Kremlin forces in the front of the Donbas war are this week intensifying their attacks on Ukrainian positions, according to a statement of January 29 by the press centre of the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Expert: Putin has to maintain the impression that he will not budge
Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue making Ukraine a project this year as well, said Andris Spruds, Director of Latvian Institute of International Affairs, in a discussion organized by Laiks Pasaulei magazine. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Coca-cola New Year’s greeting upsets both Russians and Ukrainians
Probably with good intentions, U.S. soft drink manufacturer Coca-Cola published a New Year’s greeting to customers on VK social network, by adding a picture of the territory of Russia with its internationally recognised borders, without land-grabbed Crimea. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Villages in eastern Ukraine seized with truce in force
Warfare between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in eastern Ukraine has been reduced, nevertheless villages in the buffer zone have been seized by both sides, with international observers being concerned that fighting could start again. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Prosecutors in Netherlands to consider citizen journalist news on identities of possible MH17 attackers
Prosecutors in the Netherlands have stated they plan to seriously review claims by private journalists on the identities of Russian soldiers that have allegedly manned a BUK mobile rocket launcher on July 17 2014, when Malaysian passenger airplane was shot down in Ukraine. …read more Source: Baltic News...
New Year’s truce enters into force in Ukraine’s east
Ukraine and pro-Kremlin separatists have reached an agreement of a New Year’s truce that has gone into effect on December 23 raising cautious hopes that the 20-month war might be ended. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Europe extends sanctions against Russia
In spite of sharp controversy among member states in regards to future relations with Moscow, the European Union decided on 21 December to extend sanctions adopted against Russia in response to the aggression in Ukraine for six additional months. …read more Source: Baltic News...
UN estimates world refugees and displaced at total of over 60 million
The total number of people forcibly displaced in the world probably has considerably exceeded 60 million, UN has estimated, pointing to wars in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq as well as fighting in four African nations as the key causes of the situation. …read more Source: Baltic News...
