Agricultural lending platform LANDE and European Investment Fund will support a loan portfolio for small and medium farmers in Latvia and Lithuania; EIF will cover 80% of credit risk on loans of up to €50.000, which will be granted without collateral

Hundreds protested against looming Latvian U-turn on Istanbul Convention, saying that exiting the Convention, would give the country an international civil rights reputation similar to that of Turkey the only to have signed up and then exited

Police seized 1,2 million cigarettes without Latvian excise stamps from a group of smugglers, probably destined to Finland market, in a search in the Ķengarags and Iļģuciems neighborhoods of Riga

Riga Vice Mayor Edvards Ratnieks announced to the press that he is urging illegal immigrants to leave Riga and Latvia in a month, as citizens reportedly feel less safe; migration was one of the issues highlighted in the campaign this year