Europe Latvia 400 kindergartens received similar threatening e-mails yesterday as those already received by 300 schools on Tuesday; State Police immediately informed the kindergartens that these were low-level threats and it wasn't necessary to evacuate the facilities
Europe Latvia EU Competition for Young Scientists in 2025 will be organised in Latvia; director of National Centre for Education said that in the last 7 years new opportunities have been created for Latvian students to participate in scientific research
Europe Latvia The amount of litter found on beaches in Latvia is much higher than allowed by EU environmental standards and is increasing year after year
Europe Latvia Today, a celebratory reception for Latvian men's basketball team will be held outside the Freedom Monument at 5:30 p.m.; from 4:30 p.m. until the end of the event, vehicular traffic will be closed or restricted if necessary
Europe Latvia On 30 September, the World Running Championships in Riga will be opened by Children's Day events at the Freedom Monument, where up to 5.000 children will be able to participate in short distances of various lengths
Europe Latvia 32% of Latvian families - almost a third - will face financial difficulties with the start of the new school year says a survey conducted by the research agency Norstat in July 2023 on 510 residents aged between 25 and 65
Europe Latvia Soldiers and national guardsmen of the Latvian National Armed Forces have taken part in the military exercise 'Northern Strike 2023', in Michigan, USA, from 5 to today, 19 August
Europe Latvia Harvest work is very slow due to the rainy weather, and last week's progress was 'catastrophically small', said the head of the agricultural department of the producer 'Latraps'
Europe Latvia Based on the recommendation of the State Security Service (VDD), Interior Minister Māris Kučinskis added three shareholders with Russian citizenship of the confectionery company Pobeda Confectionery to the list of foreigners banned from entering Latvia
Europe Latvia The XXVII Nationwide Latvian Song and XVII Dance Festival had 40.560 participants, according to information from the Latvian National Culture Centre, second highest number of participants in the history of the event
Europe Latvia Due to Saeima's non-compliance with a 2020 Constitutional Court ruling, the Constitutional Court declared the regulations on the language of implementation of university curricula to be unconstitutional and thus annulled as of 1 July 2024
Europe Latvia Organisers of XXVII National Celebration of Latvian Song and Dance accepted two recommendations: invite Latvian municipalities to fly the national flag from 2 to 9 July and encourage workplaces in Riga to organise remote work
Europe Latvia In 2021, the average number of passenger cars per inhabitant in the EU increased from 0,53 to 0,57, with the equivalent figure for Latvia (0,40) considerably below the EU average, but still at the highest level ever reached