BNN ANALYSES: Marauders blast supermarket door, loot ATM
Linas Jegelevičius In an impudent strike, gangsters blew up the door of a Maxima supermarket in the 5 500-habitant southwestern town of Kazlų…
Category: Social
World’s human population passes eight billion
According to information from the United Nations, the number of humans on the planet has reached eight billion, and this happened a mere…
Population census: 76% of Estonia’s population speaks a foreign language
Census data show that an estimated 76% of Estonia’s population speaks a foreign language. While 10 years ago the most widely spoken foreign…
Employment in Latvia at 64.6% in Q3, unemployment at 6.9%
The Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSP) reports that in Q3 2022 there were 899.5 thousand employed people in the country. This is…
Latvian government approves ending so-called receipt lottery
The report from the Ministry of Finance the government in Latvia reviewed on Tuesday, 15 November, proposes ending the so-called receipt lottery in…
Estonian legistation proposes to impose state language level on food couriers
The Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia submitted the bill of legislative amendments to the Language Act and the Public Transport Act….
Every second Latvian resident suffers from depressed mood
According to results of a survey by SKDS, only 3% of interviewed residents in Latvia are happy about days becoming shorter. Every second…
Heating tariffs to change for fifth time in Riga this year
28 November will mark the coming into force of a new tariff of Rīgas siltums JSC (RS). This new tariff will be 183.86…
Gas stores at Latvia’s Inčukalns storage facility reaches 14.34 TWh
For the first time in history Inčukalns underground gas storage facility (PGK) has continued pumping natural gas after the start of the natural…
