By a judgment of the Latgale District Court in Daugavpils, the businessman Raivis was found guilty of breaching the sanctions imposed by the European Union – the company of which Raivis is director imported timber from Russia.

 

 

The aim of reorganising the State Regional Development Agency is to ensure the agency has a strategic focus on implementing digital transformation policy in three directions: offering digital public administration services that are convenient for the public, raising the efficiency of public administration work, and the sustainable application of information and communication technologies.

 

The Nature Restoration Regulation is part of the European Green Deal and sets out specific targets and measures for restoring degraded ecosystems and improving biodiversity.

 

The Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre (LVĢMC) has updated the preliminary flood risk assessment for the next six years. The flood risk assessment is available for public consultation from 1 August this year until 30 January 2025.

 

The question of nature protection in Latvia is a very important one and demands careful attention, especially given Latvians’ connection with nature, the targets set by the European Union, the economic situation and economic activity. Latvia’s nature is our shared wealth, yet watching what is happening in the national parks and other nature reserves, one becomes convinced that the nature protection system that has been created does not ensure the preservation of the existing natural assets, let alone their increase.

 

The European tree frog – a distinctive amphibian, a handsome amphibian and, above all, an amphibian recovered on Latvian territory. If it has been recovered, then it had been lost. Although records can be found of the tree frog being observed in Latvia even as late as the first half of the 20th century, the species had most likely died out here as early as the end of the 19th century.

 

It is important to note, however, that a serval may only be purchased from a legal breeder – not, for example, captured and brought back from the savannah in Africa. Prices for such a pet are high, reaching as much as 10 000 euros in advertisements.

 

A conflict between two millionaires over paintings is not Re:Baltica’s line of work, but there is one detail in the transaction that interests us. While the public administration regularly draws up plans for combating the shadow economy, whose money bypasses the tax coffers and even flows into Latvian politics, Zuzāns paid Gulbis three million euros for the paintings. In cash.

 

I studied this guide carefully, and it brought to mind Orwell’s Newspeak. For example, it is recommended that “of venerable age” be replaced with “of more advanced years”. As a being of some age myself, it matters to me that I am treated with respect. Neither phrase is offensive, and it would be foolish to take offence at either version.

 

At the beginning of this year, information appeared on Latvian news portals that one pensioner in Latvia receives a pension of 43 thousand euros a month. Although there is only one such person, his length of service is 63 years and he began receiving this pension as long ago as last year...

 

For example, in Latvian hospitals today, young medics are given hints as early as university that they should learn Russian and speak it, so that they can communicate with lower-level medical staff and with patients who do not wish to speak, or do not know, the state language; before state examinations, too, medical students are warned that they must be able to speak Russian in the examination.

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Latvia, as is well known, has a grand total of one agent of influence. That is Ms Ždanoka, against whom the State Security Service initiated criminal proceedings in February 2024 and, acting with unnatural speed, six months later, in July, discovered in a search of her flat a Komsomol badge, a portrait of Putin and something of that sort.

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