Section: Latvia
Plan to send another OSCE observer to Ukraine
Latvia plans to send an eighth civilian expert to take part in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. …read more Source:...
Group helps Ukrainian kids escape horror of war
This month the non-governmental organization Latvia Without Orphans (Latvija bez bāreņiem) together with volunteer families from around the country is offering seventeen more children from Ukraine the chance to visit here to try to overcome the traumas they’ve undergone in their war-torn home territories in the nation’s east....
Senator Portman and Latvian MFA discuss importance of continuing U.S. engagement in EU security
On April 10th 2015, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics met with U.S. Republican Senator, Robert Portman, who has arrived in Latvia from Ukraine on a regional visit, LETA was informed by the Foreign Ministry. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Amnesty International reports of summary killings in Ukraine tantamount to war crimes
Non-governmental human rights organisation Amnesty International has announced it has proof pro-Kremlin separatists have carried out summary killings of four Ukrainian soldiers held captive. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Ukrainian President: we can stop Putin, but only if we are given arms
Supporters of the so-called People’s Republic of Donetsk are preparing their forces for battle – under such conditions, western countries should help Ukraine with arms, believes the first president of independent Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk. At the same time, he does not guarantee that those arms will not end up in the hands of separatists, as...
Ukraine wants deeper ties with Latvian agriculture sector
Ukraine has an active interest in developing deeper ties and cooperation with Latvia’s agricultural businesses, Agriculture Minister Jānis Dūklavs announced in a press release following his two-day visit to Kyiv Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Abnormal organizes support campaign for Ukraine by selling rectal bulbs with Putin’s portrait
In order to assist Médecins Sans Frontières organization with supplies of medicine and medical equipment to war-torn Ukraine, Abnormal advertisement agency has launched sales of rectal bulbs featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin’s portrait in Latvia. …read more Source: Baltic News...
The Times: Russia issues nuclear threat over Crimea and Baltic States
Russia has threatened to use nuclear force against the United States and its NATO allies over Crimea and the Baltic States, in a stark warning reportedly issued by Moscow’s envoys to their counterparts earlier this month, the British newspaper The Times reported on April 2rd, cites LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Former Ukraine president calls for new Marshall Plan
Viktor Yushchenko, former president of Ukraine said in an interview Sunday that the western nations were completely unprepared for Vladimir Putin’s aggressive actions against his country and called for them to supply it with lethal weapons of defense against the Russia’s offensive invasion. …read more Source:...
Kyiv expresses readiness to hold referendum on change of state governance
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has noted he wishes a referendum to be held on the decentralisation of power in Ukraine that is a condition agreed as part of the Minsk ceasefire agreement. …read more Source: Baltic News...
