3+ hour, 42+ min ago   (223+ words) Approval from airBaltic’s bondholders and shareholders is still required to receive the planned funding. A meeting of bondholders has been convened for 11 September this year. Once the necessary approvals have been obtained and the remaining conditions met, it is expected…...

6+ hour, 15+ min ago   (163+ words) / Article Latvian public media In Latvia there was only an 8% increase in the number of first residence permits issued The figure was 9 027 in 2024 and 9 073 in 2025 Of that total, 1 367 permits were issued for family reasons, and 2 981 were for educational reasons Employment…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (149+ words) / Article LSM In August, the State Border Guard initiated administrative offence proceedings against one Japanese and one Nigerian citizen under Section 68.6 of the Immigration Law The individuals were working as professional footballers at a football club without having been granted…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (130+ words) Take note – story published 7 years and 7 months ago At one point, around 700,000 demonstrators had gathered on the streets of Rīga in a remarkable show of solidarity characteristic of the times of change. As is now traditional, barricade fires and candles…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (442+ words) Forecasts from the Ministry of Economics indicate that by 2040 the working-age population in Latvia could decline by approximately 9.4 per cent. Opportunities to significantly increase the supply of local labour will be limited. At the start of the year, 15,177 third-country citizens…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (218+ words) The Ministers visited the eastern border and discussed strengthening NATO’s eastern flank, combating illegal migration, EU support for countries on the eastern border, assistance to Ukraine and further sanctions pressure against Russia. In Terehova, the Ministers were briefed on the…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (191+ words) / Article LSM Under an international agreement, there is currently one regular bus route from Latvia to Russia Daily services to Moscow are operated by SIA “Norma-A”, which provides passenger transport under the “Ecolines” brand The route licence is…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (162+ words) / Article LSM The incident is particularly notable as it happened in Madona district, which is in central Latvia well away from the eastern border with Belarus which is the main route used by people smugglers "During the operation and information…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (696+ words) An anti-war poster by artist Krišis Salmanis appeared on the facade of the Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine a few weeks after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It was placed directly opposite the Russian embassy by residents…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (370+ words) The offences were committed between 1994 and 2015, and at least 18 separate incidents have been identified. The State Police received information in January this year regarding sexual acts against several minors. When an investigation was launched into a case involving one victim,…...