Section: LSM.LV (Latvia)
PM visits Riga Ukrainian school after Kyiv trip
Students at the Riga Ukrainian High School are getting used to new classmates arriving from the homeland in mid-year as more families relocate here from war-torn Ukraine, worried about their future there. Meanwhile, education is what Latvia’s government is planning to offer Ukraine as it faces its veritable existential crisis under pressure...
PM visits Riga Ukrainian school after Kiev trip
Students at the Riga Ukrainian High School are getting used to new classmates arriving from the homeland in mid-year as more families relocate here from war-torn Ukraine, worried about their future there. Meanwhile, education is what Latvia’s government is planning to offer Ukraine as it faces its veritable existential crisis under pressure...
Kharkiv terror attack condemned
Latvia on Sunday said it “strongly condemned” a terror attack on a peace march in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that was itself marking a year since the bloody events of the Maidan uprising in Kyiv. …read more Source:...
Latvia condemns ‘blatant violation’ of Minsk deal
Latvia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday delivered a crystal-clear verdict on the Minsk peace agreement signed in the Belarusian capital last week after talks between Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, France and Germany. …read more Source:...
Stoltenberg in Riga: Russia engaged in ‘steady buildup’ of tanks in Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the Alliance stood “shoulder to shoulder” with Latvia during a visit to Riga on Wednesday, while warning that Russia was continuing to reinforce its presence in Eastern Ukraine with heavy armor. …read more Source:...
Dead Latvian radical was jailbird in Russia
The citizen of Latvia who was reported to have been killed while fighting for Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine is likely to have made the contacts which led him to join the fight there while serving time in Russian prison years ago, reported Latvian Public Television (LTV) investigative news program De Facto Sunday. …read...
Dead Latvian fighter was jailbird in Russia
The citizen of Latvia who was reported to have been killed while fighting for Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine is likely to have made the contacts which led him to join the fight there while serving time in Russian prison years ago, reported Latvian Public Television (LTV) investigative news program De Facto Sunday. …read...
Cautious welcome for latest Minsk peace deal
Senior Latvian officials gave a cautious welcome Thursday to the results of talks in the Belarusian capital Minsk seeking a peaceful resolution of the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Former NATO chief warns of Russian intent in Baltics
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who until last September was NATO Secretary General, warned Thursday that Russia was likely to attempt a Ukraine-style provocation in the Baltic states. …read more Source:...
Latvian banks one haven for Ukraine’s kleptocrats: researcher
The European Union can and must do more to help Ukraine fight its own corrupt oligarchs, whose money keeps being bled out to safe haven banks in London, Cyprus, Austria and Latvia, British journalist Oliver Bullough, an expert observer on Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus region told Latvian Radio correspondent Ina Strazdiņa in Brussels Friday....
