Section: LSM.LV (Latvia)
Latvia to help manage Ukraine’s forests
Ukraine is hoping for a closer cooperation in transport and wants help in carrying out massive reforms in the forestry industry, the Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) and Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk told Latvian Radio Friday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine wants to reform forestry industry with help from Latvia
Ukraine is hoping for a closer cooperation in transport and wants help in carrying out massive reforms in the forestry industry, the Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) and Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk told Latvian Radio Friday. …read more Source:...
Baltics back Ukraine and blast Nord Stream 2 project
Prime Ministers of the three Baltic states gave staunch support to their Ukrainian counterpart Arseniy Yatsenuk in Riga Thursday and expressed severe doubts about the proposed Nord Stream 2 pipeline planned to run under the Baltic Sea. …read more Source:...
Most guest workers in Latvia come from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
According to data by the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (PMLP), most of the people from third countries who come to Latvia to work come from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, reported Latvian Radio Monday. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian soldiers coming to Latvia for fact finding and English lessons
Two members of Ukraine’s armed forces will arrive for a week-long visit on November 1, in order to learn how their Latvian counterparts deal with unexploded bombs and to pick up information on a wide range of other topics, the Latvian Defense Ministry said Friday. …read more Source:...
Latvia shares NATO STRATCOM experience with Ukraine
Latvia has been sharing with Ukraine experience obtained while working on issues concerning the Riga-based NATO Center of Excellence for Strategic Communications Strategic Communications (STRATCOM COE), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko revealed on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Media watchdog fines PBK television for pro-Kremlin bias
The National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) has fined the Russian-language television channel Pirmais Baltijas kanals (PBK) for violations on their coverage of the Ukraine conflict, LETA reported Thursday. …read more Source:...
Rīga City Council calls to examine views of ‘Maidan’ exhibition organizers
The Riga City Council has called on the Security Police to assess the public statements made by organizers of The People of Maidan open-air photo exhibition on Ukraine in downtown Riga, the council told BNS. The news follows LSM’s Thursday story about the conflicting background and dodgy ties of Sergey Melnikoff, one of the people behind...
Russian opposition activist seeks political asylum in Latvia
Dmitry Savin, a nationalist opposition activist from Russia, is seeking political asylum in Latvia, saying that Russian authorities have been persecuting him because of his criticism of the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the daily Latvijas Avize reported on Monday. …read more Source:...
Latvian president criticizes UN Security Council over Ukraine and Syria
Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis in his speech at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 30 criticized the UN Security Council for lack of timely and decisive action, stressing that past failures should be lessons for the future, the Latvian president’s press service said. …read more Source:...
