Section: Latvia
Ukraine International Airlines to launch Kiev-Riga-Kiev flights
Starting summer season 2015, Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) will launch direct flights between Kiev and Riga, the airline informed LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
EU to offer Ukraine additional funding, warn Russia of new sanctions
The European Union will impose new sanctions on Russia’s-annexed Crimea, threaten Russia with additional sanctions and pledge Ukraine more funding, draft summit conclusions as quoted by EU Observer indicate. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Lithuanian industrialists mediate Ukrainian businesses in cooperation with EU
More than 20 businessmen and representatives of business organisations are taking part in the high level Ukraine-Lithuania business mission to Brussels on 9-11 December, organised by the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK), the confederation said in a report, cites LETA/ELTA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
War in Ukraine: Kyiv starts new ceasefire attempt called «Day of silence»
In eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, December 9, Ukrainian forces are holding a “Day of silence», expressing determination to repeatedly reach a ceasefire. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Ukraine’s local governments look to Latvia for ways of reform
A delegation of Ukrainian parliamentary, presidential chancellery and local government representatives visited the former Madona region, or rajons, as it used to be known before Latvia’s territorial administrative reform of its elected local government system, which is exactly the experience the Ukrainians are hoping to learn from, reported...
Thousands of enterprises are nationalized in Crimea
Within eight months since the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, thousands of enterprises present there have been nationalized. This process was not always carried out in accordance with the law, however. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Not all Ukraine refugees given asylum
According to the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (PMLP) a total of 79 residents of Ukraine have requested asylum in Latvia this year. Many of these Ukrainians have relatives in Latvia helping them with their residence permits, others have sent only their offspring here temporarily while the homeland is insecure, others are awaiting...
Berzins and Schulz analyze security situation in Europe
During today’s meeting with European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz and leaders of the EP’s political groups, Latvian President Andris Berzins analyzed the security situation in Europe in wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Presidential Press Service informed LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Ukrainian soldiers check in at Riga hospital
Seven soldiers from the Ukrainian national armed forces have been brought to Latvia to be treated for injuries sustained in battle with pro-Russian terrorists in the country’s east, reported news wire BNS Thursday. …read more Source:...
Lithuanian and Georgian ministers approved in Ukraine’s new government
The Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv, approved on Tuesday, December 2, Ukraine’s new Cabinet of Ministers, in which two key posts have been assigned to non-Ukrainians. …read more Source: Baltic News...
