Eight political parties register candidate lists for upcoming Saeima elections
Latvian Central Election Commission (CVK) registered two more candidate lists for 14th Saeima elections on Tuesday, 26 July. These are the combined list…
Category: Politics
Latvian expert says Russia doesn’t care about its troops
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Court in Estonia finds three guilty of supporting Russian aggression
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Italian parliament dissolved; snap elections to happen soon
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Lavrov warns Russian forces will go even further
Russian armed forces in Ukraine are no longer focused on «solely» on the neighbouring country’s eastern territories, because supplies of western arms have…
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Linas Jegelevičius Although summer lulls everybody, the coming months of autumn and winter in Lithuania and elsewhere will perhaps inevitably sink all of…
Two ex-ministers to clash in second stage of UK Tory leadership elections
In the second stage of British Conservative party leadership elections on Wednesday, 20 July, two potential candidates remained: ex-Chief Secretary to the Treasury…
OPINION | Lembergs as prime minister candidate. How many times is enough?
Despite the court of first instance declaring ex-Mayor of Ventspils Aivars Lembergs guilty of severe crimes against the state and the US, his…
Politologist: there is a risk of dangerously low activity during 14th Saeima elections
In preparation for 14th Saeima elections, which are scheduled for 1 October this year, political parties in Latvia have started submitting their candidate…
