Chairman of Latvian Supreme Court decides to run for another term
Chairman of the Supreme Court of Law of the Republic of Latvia Aigars Strupišs plans to run candidate for another term as the…
Russian court sentences Navalny’s lawyers to prison
Russian court of law has sentenced to prison three lawyers who previously defended political opposition member Alexei Navalny, who later died in prison….
Latvian State Security Service denies municipal official access to official secrets
The State Security Service (VDD) has denied one municipal official access to official secrets. VDD has also issued short-term permits to eight other…
BNN ANALYSES | Lithuanian authorities deny that Russia retains notable intelligence capabilities in the country
Linas Jegelevičius An article in The New York Times (NYT), which stated that U.S. officials identify Lithuania as a country where Russia still…
BNN IN FOCUS | Government acts as though airBaltic does not belong to the state – criticism from Filips Rajevskis
“Judging by the signals from airBaltic CEO Martin Gauss, it is likely unavoidable that the state will have to invest money into this…
Problems with official e-mail addresses cause Latvian residents to miss invitations for cancer screenings
Due to e-mail addresses remaining unconfirmed at “Latvija.lv” portal, many women in the country may have missed the invitations for government-funded breast and…
Influenza epidemic continues in Latvia
Influenza continues spreading in Latvia. Infection rates are currently the highest in Riga and Jēkabpils, according to monitoring data from the Disease Prevention…
Hundreds of pensioners in Latvia face mistakes in pension calculation
The number of pensioners for whom the pension was incorrectly recalculated in January, because the State Revenue Service (VID) has not sent to…
Biden warns of growing “oligarchy” threatening democracy in grim farewell speech
US President Joe Biden, speaking from the Oval Office for the last time on Wednesday, the 15th of January, as he prepared to…
