BNN summary of the week: Failed quorum. Bondars’ criminal prosecution. Oil from Russia
This week Latvia’s focus was on the progress with the Civil Union Law – what will Saeima decide? In the end deputies decided…
Category: Social
Epidemiologists uncover the first case of monkey pox in Latvia
The first case of money pox has been confirmed in the Republic of Latvia, as reported by Disease Prevention and Monitoring Centre (SPKC)….
Meteorological forecast for the weekend in Latvia
Even though the end of May and start of June had large volume of precipitation, on Friday, 3 June, the cyclone that brought…
Latvian Saeima does not pass Civil Union Law
On Thursday, 2 June, Latvia’s parliament failed to pass the Civil Union Law due to lack of quorum. If the 13th Saeima fails…
Harmony political party promises to not rile up residents against demolition of Victory monument in Pārdaugava
In the event of approval of the Law on Prohibition of Display of Objects Glorifying the Soviet and Nazi Regimes and Their Dismantling…
Number of Estonians grew over ten years, population census shows
In Estonia, the summarised data of the 2021 population census showed that in ten years since the previous census the number of Estonians…
CSP reports population decline in Latvia
At the beginning of 2022 population of Latvia accounted for 1 million 876 thousand people, which is 17.5 thousand people fewer than a…
Latvian state allocates financing for joint Latvian-Ukrainian camps for children
The government in Latvia decided to support the proposal from the Ministry of Education and Science to organise summer camps and provide psycho-emotional…
Court in Latvia recognises «existence of public legal relationships» of same-sex couples
Although the first sentence of Section 110 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia makes it clear that «the State shall protect…
