KNAB: Vaivods may have offered a bribe to another Latvian official
The criminal case as part of which the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) performed investigative actions at Riga City Council’s Department for…
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Unknown perpetrator tosses flammable mixture inside Museum of Occupation in Riga
Last night a flammable mixture was tossed inside the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, as LETA was told by the museum’s head…
BNN ASKS | Aivars Lembergs sits alongside government representatives at a basketball game
The ex-Mayor of Ventspils, infamous Latvian politician under international US sanctions, and the man found guilty of numerous crimes of corruption Aivars Lembers…
Men of working age – there are more than 40 000 maintenance dodgers in Latvia
There are more than 40 000 men who are maintenance dodgers in Latvia, as LTV programme Rīta panorāma was told by deputy state…
Supporting children is a duty! Latvian ministers says residents should not be tolerant toward maintenance dodgers
Latvian Minister of Justice Inese Lībiņa-Egnere invites Latvian residents to not be tolerant towards maintenance dodgers. In her interview to TV3 programme 900…
President explains NATO Article 5: Latvia will have homework to do in any event
There is no reason to doubt the guarantees provided by NATO Article 5, but even in a worst case scenario Latvia will have…
Sweden promises to station 600 troops in Latvia
Sweden promised Latvia to station 600 troops in this country after joining NATO, as Latvijas Radio was told by Latvian Transatlantic Organisation’s (LATO)…
Riga City Council doesn’t know if KNAB detained Vaivods or not
Riga City Council does not possess information if the head of the Department for Spatial Planning and Mobility Jānis Vaivods is detained, as…
New trains in Latvia are still undergoing dynamic tests
Of the new electric passenger trains supplied by Czech Škoda Vagonka to Latvia only ten are in use: eight are actively carrying passengers,…
