Europe Latvia After the attack on the Occupation Museum, plans are being made to speed up the creation of a comprehensive video surveillance network throughout Latvia; the Interior Minister will have a month to identify what is already in place and what can be used
Europe Latvia The definition of maximum permitted teaching hours is considered by Minister of Education as a possible solution to teacher overload; one third of teachers, 34%, carry more workload than the 36 hours provided for by the contract
Europe Latvia It will be compulsory to install bio-waste containers in Riga in the vicinity of apartment buildings with more than 10 flats as of 1 March, as stipulated in the municipal waste management regulation adopted by the Riga City Council
Europe Latvia The Food and Veterinary Service will begin intensifying checks at the EU's external borders on consignments of food and fodder from today to exclude risks to human and animal health and to verify that consignments comply with EU legislation
Europe Latvia Electronic timetables at public transport stops in Rīga have had their day and no longer display information: the public transport company Rīgas Satiksme plans to replace these screens and install new ones throughout the city
Europe Latvia The State Border Guard received 57 Polaris quadricycles as a gift from the US that will be used for monitoring the Latvian-Russian and Latvian-Belarus state borders, as well as to increase the mobility of border guards on the external state border
Europe Latvia Geologists have chosen the Gūdu Cliffs, a sandstone formation on the Gauja River that looks like the front of a ship jutting into the water, as the geo-location of the year 2024, the University of Latvia announced
Europe Latvia With three days to go until signature collection closes, 14,65% of the necessary votes have been collected for a referendum on repealing amendments to the law introducing a partnership institute in Latvia
Europe Latvia Keeping dogs on a chain could be soon banned following amendments to the animal protection law passed by the Saeima at second reading on 21 December
Europe Latvia The Court of First Instance issued a verdict finding a person guilty of knowingly infecting another person with HIV, for the first time ever, sentencing him to 90 hours of community service
Europe Latvia The energy commodities trader and convenience store network AS Virši-A will, from 20 November to 6 January, donate 3 cents in support of SOS Children's Villages for every hot coffee drink purchased in the special SOS Children's Villages cups
Europe Latvia The European Court of Human Rights found no violation in Latvia's move to state language education; subjects taught in Latvian, the national language, have been increased in state schools, thus determining fewer lessons in Russian
Europe Latvia The Saeima of the Latvian Parliament adopted amendments to eight laws introducing same-sex unions, three years after the Constitutional Court's ruling emphasising the state's duty to protect the families of same-sex couples