Section: Latvia
Idle production plant to cost KVV Liepajas Metalurgs EUR 0.5 mln monthly
Even with the production plant standing idle, KVV Liepajas Metalurgs metallurgy company has to reckon with regular monthly expenses of EUR 0.5 million, the plant’s Ukrainian owners, KVV Group, said, informs LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
EU extends sanctions on individuals over Ukraine to September
The European Union on March 10th extended by six months until September sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian individuals over the conflict in Ukraine, it said in a statement, cites LETA/AFP. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Liepaja steelworks faces shutdown threat
The prospect of the Liepaja Metalurgs closing its doors and hundreds of workers being laid off loomed closer Thursday the plant’s Ukrainian owners threatening a shutdown unless the government helps bail it out of financial ruin. …read more Source:...
Ukrainians evaluating possibility of preserving KVV Liepajas Metalurgs
Ukraine’s KVV Group is evaluating the possibility of suspending the operations of joint-stock metallurgical company KVV Liepajas Metalurgs and preserving the factory is the Cabinet of Ministers does not make any constructive decisions during its March 15 meeting, the KVV Group told LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Latvia calls on Russia to release Nadiya Savchenko – The Baltic Times
The Latvian Foreign Ministry has called on Russia to immediately release Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian Airforce pilot imprisoned in Russia…. …read more Source: The Baltic...
“Free Savchenko” protestors picket Russian embassy in Vilnius – The Baltic Times
Wednesday 8 March, saw around 50 protestors gather outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius to call for the release of Ukrainian air force pilot N…… …read more Source: The Baltic...
Ukrainian company begins producing cheese in former DK Daugava production plant
The Ukrainian-owned dairy company Latvian Dairy Ltd. has begun producing various types of cheese for export in the former DK Daugava milk-processing plant in Jaunjelgava County, and is currently employing approximately 60 persons, the company’s representatives told LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Lithuania, 4 other states want EU to make “Savchenko List”
Lithuania and four other countries have suggested that the European Union (EU) should make a so-called Nadiya Savchenko list, with Russian officials on the list imposed sanctions for prosecution of the Ukrainian pilot, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius confirmed BNS on Wednesday, informs LETA. …read more Source: The...
Ruling in Savchenko’s case to be announced on 21 or 22 March
On Wednesday, 9 March, Russian Federation Rostov Oblast Donetsk Court announced that the ruling in the criminal case against Ukrainian pilot and parliament member Nadiya Savchenko will be voiced on 21 or 22 March. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Nearly half asylum applicants in Estonia are from Ukraine
Ukrainian nationals made up nearly half of the applicants for asylum in Estonia in 2015, it appears from figures released by Eurostat, cites LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
