BNN summary of the week: Presidents meet. Dangerous monument. Gas terminal in Latvia
This week’s hot topic in Latvia: what to do with the Victory Monument complex in Riga? Residents are not allowed to come near…
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Week in Lithuania: Seimas speaker pushes for Ukraine support fund, «desovietisation» of monuments discussed
The top news stories in Lithuania in the past week, were the speaker of the Seimas encouraging to set up a dedicated support…
Mayor: VARAM provided no warnings about changes to Riga’s development plan
Representatives of Latvia’s Ministry of Environment Protection and Regional Development neither send letters in 2018 or 2021, nor provided no warnings during the…
School in Tallinn opened for 200 Ukrainian children
In the Estonian capital, a school education programme for Ukrainian refugee children has been opened this week Estonian public broadcaster ERR reports. Tallinn’s…
Man shot dead near Alfa shopping mall; police are looking for the suspect
In the evening on Tuesday, 12 April, a man was shot dead and another one was wounded in a forest in Riga, not…
E-scooter riders in Lithuania could need helmets and yellow vests
The spring has arrived in Lithuania with people in cities returning to riding their electric scooters. Legislators in the Seimas have proposed to…
Government to decide how many refugees Latvia’s largest cities should accept
With 30 000 Ukrainian refugees arriving in Latvia, seven of the country’s biggest cities should take on as many as 14 876 people,…
Dailes Theatre director comments on Russian political refugees
Europe, Latvia included, should improve the criteria based on which people from Russia are declared political refugees instead of merely closing down borders,…
Riga mayor: the monument complex in Victory Park is declared unsafe
The monument complex located in Victory Park is officially declared unsafe. Because of this the municipal administration will fence it off, said Mayor…
