Section: LSM.LV (Latvia)
Regulator watching Latvia’s PrivatBank
Latvia’s financial regulator, the Financial and Capital Markets Commisison (FKTK) said December 19 it was monitoring the situation following the announcement that Ukraine was nationalizing its largest retail bank, PrivatBank. …read more Source:...
Viewpoint: Russia and Trump – a love story?
“If Trump recognizes Crimea as ours, lifts sanctions, makes an agreement with us on Syria and frees Assange, I will retire. Because the world will be wonderful.” This is how Rossiya Segodnya editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan commented the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. …read more Source:...
airBaltic to launch flights to Odessa
The Latvian airline airBaltic will launch a new route between Riga and the Ukrainian coastal city Odessa on March 26, 2017, the company told the press Tuesday. …read more Source:...
President to world: Crimea situation needs «firm UN reaction»
Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis took center stage at the United Nations Wednesday, delivering a speech to the UN’s most important gathering of the year, the general debate of the 71st session of the General Assembly. …read more Source:...
Obama points to Baltics as example for Ukraine
President of the United states of America, Barack Obama, took the opportunity of his final address to the general assembly of the United Nations on September 20 to point to the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia as an example for the aspirations of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Latvia keeps €50m believed stolen from Ukraine
Latvia has got a windfall of €50 million to add to its state budget after seizing cash believed to have been stolen from Ukrainian state coffers, investigative news show De Facto reported September 11. …read more Source:...
OSCE members lack common goals: Rinkēvičs
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs on Thursday took part in an informal meeting of foreign ministers from the participating States of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Potsdam. In his statement to the meeting, the Latvian Foreign Minister emphasized that the primary criterion for the effectiveness of the...
Two experts added to Ukraine assistance mission
On 30 August, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decision to increase Latvia’s contribution to the European Union Advisory Mission for Civilian Security Sector Reform in Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine) by approving the secondment of two more civilian experts to the mission, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. …read more Source:...
Canada to send 1,000 troops to Latvia to deter Russia
Canada will deploy 1,000 soldiers in Latvia to one of four battalions NATO is assembling in Eastern Europe in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea, reported AFP Thursday via Canadian media. …read more Source:...
Man faces charges for fighting in Ukraine conflict
Artjoms Skripniks, a man from the eastern Latvian city of Daugavpils, faces criminal charges for participation in the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine, reported LETA Wednesday. …read more Source:...
