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News Latvia: ERR in Latvia: Selija military training area to be Baltic states' largest

Published on: Monday 17 July 2023
News source: https://news.err.ee/1609037147/err-in-latvia-selija-military-training-area-to-be-baltic-states-largest

Latvia is set to start work constructing what will be the largest and most state-of-the-art military training area in the Baltic States, at Selija, near its southern border with Lithuania, ETV news ...

News Latvia: Women in Latvia are hiring 'husbands for an hour': Here's how it works

Published on: Monday 08 December 2025
Women in Latvia are hiring 'husbands for an hour': Here's how it works
News source: https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/women-in-latvia-are-hiring-husbands-for-an-hour-heres-how-it-works-19785457.htm

Latvia is becoming an increasingly popular destination. Latvia welcomes both EU and non-EU citizens, although the process differs. EU/EEA individuals benefit from simpler procedures, whereas non-EU citizens must meet particular visa criteria.

News Latvia: Latvia's man shortage has sparked a strange new industry: The hourly husband

Published on: Saturday 06 December 2025
Latvia's man shortage has sparked a strange new industry: The hourly husband
News source: https://www.tbsnews.net/offbeat/latvias-man-shortage-has-sparked-strange-new-industry-hourly-husband-1303376

Statistically, the country has a full-blown “man drought,” with 15.5% more women than men, a gap more than three times the average across the European Union. Among seniors, the divide becomes even more dramatic: women over 65 outnumber men two to one

News Latvia: VP Naidu to visit Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia from Aug 17-22: MEA

Published on: Wednesday 14 August 2019
VP Naidu to visit Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia from Aug 17-22: MEA
News source: https://www.business-standard.com/multimedia/video-gallery/general/vp-naidu-to-visit-lithuania-latvia-and-estonia-from-aug-17-22-mea-89198.htm

New Delhi, Aug 14 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Secretary (West), A Gitesh Sarma on August 14 said Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will be visiting Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia from 17th to 21st August. He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation.

News Latvia: Vaira Viķe-Freiberga: The first female president of Latvia

Published on: Monday 12 August 2019
Vaira Viķe-Freiberga: The first female president of Latvia
News source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz56f

Vaira Viķe-Freiberga became the first female president of Latvia in 1999, just eight months after returning to the country she left 54 years earlier. A dramatic childhood saw her leave Riga with her ...

News Latvia: Tele2 Latvia performs video call on 5G network

Published on: Wednesday 14 August 2019
Tele2 Latvia performs video call on 5G network
News source: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/tele2-latvia-performs-video-call-on-5g-network--1304657

Mobile operator Tele2 Latvia has performed a video call on the 5G network, which it said was the first one of this type in the country. During the connection, the speed exceeded 1 Gbps, and the ...

News Latvia: Missing Latvian trekker found dead after 10 months at Chamba Lake

Published on: Saturday 10 August 2019
Missing Latvian trekker found dead after 10 months at Chamba Lake
News source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/missing-latvian-trekker-found-dead-after-10-months-at-chamba-lake/articleshow/70624984.cms

Dharamshala: A 32-year-old Latvian trekker who was missing since September 2018 was found dead at Manimahesh Lake in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. A police team brought his body to the base ...

News Latvia: Where Lenin Lives: Inside Latvia's VIP Nuclear Bunker

Published on: Tuesday 06 August 2019
Where Lenin Lives: Inside Latvia's VIP Nuclear Bunker
News source: https://www.rferl.org/a/ligatne-nuclear-bunker-hidden-in-latvian-forest-and-kept-secret-for-years/30097266.html

19 A sign recommending the protective clothing to wear in the event of a nuclear or poison-gas attack. Kinder told RFE/RL that after the Soviet Union’s demise, the fledgling Latvian government ...

News Latvia: SUNY Orange professor awarded Fulbright Fellowship

Published on: Tuesday 14 May 2019
SUNY Orange professor awarded Fulbright Fellowship
News source: https://www.recordonline.com/news/20190514/suny-orange-professor-awarded-fulbright-fellowship

Professor of Global Studies and World History at SUNY Orange, Michael Strmiska, received a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship grant to teach for six months at Riga Stradins University in Latvia. Starting in the spring 2020 semester, Strmiska, a Middletown resident and 11-year faculty member at SUNY Orange, will teach religion courses in the Social Anthropology Programme of RSU's Department of Communication Studies. “Staying in Riga for an extended period, and no doubt traveling to other parts

News Latvia: Latvia and Lithuania leaders among EU countries for drowned residents

Published on: Sunday 11 August 2019
Latvia and Lithuania leaders among EU countries for drowned residents
News source: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics/?doc=150677

In 2016 there were 5 537 deaths of European Union (EU) residents caused by accidental drowning and submersion. The figure has been falling each year since a peak of 6 090 deaths in 2013 and corresponds to an EU average of 1.1

News Latvia: Report: Amazon mulls Baltic state AWS expansion

Published on: Wednesday 07 August 2019
Report: Amazon mulls Baltic state AWS expansion
News source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/report-amazon-mulls-baltic-state-aws-expansion/

voting and health services. The news that Amazon could be planning a local cloud region was first reported by Latvian media outlet Dienas Bizness, which revealed that Amazon Data Services Latvia was ...

News Latvia: ECB’s Rimsevics to Face Corruption Trial in Latvia in November

Published on: Thursday 08 August 2019
ECB’s Rimsevics to Face Corruption Trial in Latvia in November
News source: https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/ecb-s-rimsevics-to-face-graft-trial-in-latvia-in-november-leta

(Bloomberg) -- The criminal case against Latvian central bank Governor Ilmars Rimsevics will hold its first hearing in a Riga court in November, about a month before his term of office expires, the Leta news service reported, citing a court calendar.

News Latvia: Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers

Published on: Sunday 04 August 2019
Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
News source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/opinion/sunday/labor-unions.html

It also has the second-highest percentage of low-wage workers among that group, exceeded only by Latvia. All this means the United ... but also for our politics and policymaking and for the many ...

News Latvia: Latvia: Unemployment level at 6% in July

Published on: Sunday 11 August 2019
Latvia: Unemployment level at 6% in July
News source: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics/?doc=150694

In late July Latvia’s registered unemployment rate was 6 of the economically active population, the same as at the end of June, LETA was told at the State Employment Agency. The number of people registered with the government agency as unemployed dropped by 377 over the past month to 55,373 at the end of July.The

News Latvia: ‘The Bachelorette’ Finale Recap: Jed (Finally) Sings Like a Bird

Published on: Wednesday 31 July 2019
‘The Bachelorette’ Finale Recap: Jed (Finally) Sings Like a Bird
News source: https://www.theringer.com/2019/7/31/20748440/the-bachelorette-season-15-finale-part-two-recap

Latvia, the Netherlands, and Greece, all on ABC’s dime. It’s going to be hard for Jed to date after this, because he was just portrayed as a liar on one of America’s most popular TV shows. He needs to ...

News Latvia: Latvian community share the highs and lows of moving to Guernsey

Published on: Tuesday 30 July 2019
Latvian community share the highs and lows of moving to Guernsey
News source: https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2019-07-30/latvian-community-share-the-highs-and-lows-of-moving-to-guernsey/

Credit: ITV Channel TV "I never imagined to be so many years in Guernsey". Those are the words of one Latvian woman who moved to the island for a better life. A group have been sharing their ...

News Latvia: Broiler meat clue in Latvia’s low Campylobacter numbers

Published on: Tuesday 06 August 2019
Broiler meat clue in Latvia’s low Campylobacter numbers
News source: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2019/08/broiler-meat-clue-in-latvias-low-campylobacter-numbers/

The small contamination rate of broiler meat in Latvia could partly explain the lower number of Campylobacter infections in the country, according to a study. Researchers analyzed data of ...

News Latvia: 'Little Latvia' lives on in Siberia

Published on: Tuesday 06 August 2019
'Little Latvia' lives on in Siberia
News source: https://news.yahoo.com/little-latvia-lives-siberia-155113923.html

The people of the remote Siberian village of Bobrovka call it the "Little Latvia of the Taiga," where Baltic traditions continue more than 100 years after settlers from the region first arrived. Latvia was at the time a part of Tsarist Russia. Some five hours drive from the nearest major