Section: Foreign media focused on Latvia
Abnormal organizes support campaign for Ukraine by selling rectal bulbs with Putin’s portrait
In order to assist Médecins Sans Frontières organization with supplies of medicine and medical equipment to war-torn Ukraine, Abnormal advertisement agency has launched sales of rectal bulbs featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin’s portrait in Latvia. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Kyiv expresses readiness to hold referendum on change of state governance
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has noted he wishes a referendum to be held on the decentralisation of power in Ukraine that is a condition agreed as part of the Minsk ceasefire agreement. …read more Source: Baltic News...
SEB: Ukraine faces acute economic crisis and is nearly out of reserves
Baltic and Central European countries continue demonstrating good resistance toward the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russian sanctions on imports of food products and the growing recession. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Baltic and Nordic businessmen are optimistic about Ukraine’s future
Ukraine has a large potential for economic growth, and Ukraine knows how to use it, said the head of the International Monetary Fund in Ukraine Jerome Vacher during the recent Nordic and Baltic business days conference in Kyiv. Representatives of other countries also said that Ukraine is on the right path for developing its business environment....
Ukraine: Row on status of rebel-occupied territories endangers truce
The Ukrainian Supreme Rada on Tuesday, March 17, adopted amendments in the law “On a temporary order of local government in individual areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions» that, according to pro-Kremlin separatists and Russia endanger the fragile Minsk ceasefire agreement of February 12. …read more Source: Baltic News...
One year passes since Crimea’s annexation by Russia; Latvia continues its non-recognition policy
One year ago – March 16th, 2014 – Crimea held a referendum regarding the addition of the peninsula to the Russian Federation. On March 18th, the decision was passed down by the Russian Federation to annex Crimea. …read more Source: Baltic News...
IMF: Ukraine to receive USD 10 billion in 2015 as part of new loan programme
As part of the newly approved Ukraine’s loan programme, the war-torn country will in 2015 receive USD 10 billion, the International Monetary Fund announced on Wednesday, March 11. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Kasyanov: atmosphere of evil and intolerance is being cultivated in Russia
One of the most notable representatives of the Russian opposition, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov believes the world can expect more deaths if the west does not demonstrate a strict position against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime in Ukraine, as reported by lsm.lv. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Hammond: Russia fundamentally undermines the security of sovereign nations in Eastern Europe
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine undermines the security of other Eastern European countries and is the greatest threat to Britain’s security, said British Secretary of Foreign Affairs Philip Hammond on Tuesday, March 10th. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Ukraine: Separatists pull back weapons; Putin admits plan to annex Crimea
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday, March 9, announced that pro-Kremlin separatists in the country’s east have pulled back considerable amount of heavy weapons thus in meeting one of the crucial conditions of the latest ceasefire deal. …read more Source: Baltic News...
