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Exclusive interview with Petr Aven. Billionaire contemplates …
Sep 13, 2023 · Interview article author: Armands Puče/LA It was not difficult to agree on an interview with the billionaire Petr Aven, who is also a Latvian citizen, because the banker is open and frank. The real challenge was waiting for him to find the right moment for the interview, amidst international sanctions on one side, his abandoned […]
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New mayor of Ventspils – deputy of corrupt former head of …
Jul 5, 2021 · The new Ventspils State City Council has on Monday, July 5, elected its first chairman. It is Jānis Vītoliņš from the party For Latvia and Ventspils, who previously was the deputy of former Ventspils Mayor Aivars Lembergs, who is in prison for corruption and other crimes, news portal Ventspilnieks.lv reports.
BNN ANALYSES | What’s really happening with Lithuania’s bomb …
Sep 5, 2024 · As of the 28th of August 2024, there were 4 438 shelters available across the country, the Lithuanian Interior Ministry (VRM) informed BNN. For comparison, at the end of 2022, there were 1 835 shelters and 3 251 at the end 2023, the ministry says. “When the Minister of Internal Affairs Agnė Bilotaitė started her job, she chose civil safety ...
Administrative territorial reform comes to force in Latvia
LETA. July 1, 2021. Photo: Ieva Čīka/LETA. 1 July 2021 marks the coming into force of the new administrative territorial planning that concluded the second municipal reform after the restoration of the independence of the Republic of Latvia. The reform provided for merging 119 municipalities and composing new municipalities out of them.
Latvia continues installing fences along its border with Belarus
November 25, 2021. Barbed wire fence set up along Latvian-Belarusian border. Construction workers have almost completed the installation of a temporary barbed wire fence along the Latvian-Belarusian border. Latvia’s Ministry of the Interior has plans to install another 22.8 km of this barbed wire fence.
Latvia plans to ban single-use plastic products for good
Apr 15, 2021 · It is planned from 3 July 2021 onward manufacturers and traders will need to start marking certain single-use products containing plastic: sanitary napkins, tampons, wet wipes, tobacco products with filters and filters intended to be used together with tobacco products, as well as drinking glasses. Manufacturers will need to compose an expanded ...
Army parade in honour of 105th anniversary of Latvia’s …
Nov 16, 2023 · Latvian National Armed Forces report that on Saturday, the 18th of November, there will be a special parade featuring Latvian and allied armed forces in Riga. The parade will take place at 13:30 in Riga on the 11th November Embankment and will be dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the Day of Proclamation of the […]