People in Moscow got arrested for wearing white ribbons
March 25th, 2012This video footage shows people getting arrested in Red square (Moscow, Russia) just for wearing white ribbons (as ant-Putins sign) and without any explanation from officials.
Latvia against ACTA
February 14th, 2012While there were ongoing protests against ACTA in whole Europe on Saturday, Latvia faced such protest on Monday (February 13). More that 300 protesters gathered at the Cabinet of Ministers. Already few days earlier Minister of Economics Daniels Pavļuts postponed ratification of agreement. Though yesterday Prime minister Valdis Dombrovskis acknowledged possibility that ACTA might be rejected.
Source (in Latvian): http://www.tvnet.lv/tehnologijas/internets/410627-dombrovskis_neizsledz_acta_noraidisanu
Latvian police detain peaceful protestors
October 11th, 2011On October 5 Latvian police detained three persons in center of capital Riga spontaneously protesting against the actions of a political party. Also three bystanders were detained as well. Read more here: http://freespeechlatvia.blogspot.com/2011/10/latvian-police-deliberately-detain.html
TV journalist fired for calling politicians “whores”
October 11th, 2011Journalist and host of political Latvian TV show Skats no malas (A View from The Sidelines) Kārlis Streips was fired for calling the Latvia’s Green and Farmer’s Union political party a "whores" during his show. Here is more info on that: http://freespeechlatvia.blogspot.com/2011/09/latvian-talk-show-host-booted-after-16.html
Critical mass
May 7th, 2011As each year 1st May in Riga Critical mass took place. Police didn’t took the event in their hands as last year (they escorted cyclers with flashing lights) and was intolerant and rude as usual. Though men at power tried another tactics to steal the event – Riga city mayor Nils Ušakovs organized his own cycling event earlier that day so bicyclers were split between the two events. Still there were enough participants to make the mass critical.
Pictures and articles (in Latvian) from event:
http://www.xlt.lv/blogs/15127/atskats-uz-kritisko-masu-11/
http://ojars.kapteinis.lv/kritiska-masa-2011-riga/
http://andzh.kw-art.org/node/11
http://teikasgaisma.blogspot.com/2011/05/ar-velo-pa-rigu.html
http://foto.delfi.lv/album/76966/
http://foto.delfi.lv/album/76968/
http://www.leta.lv/foto/sources/leta/album/1BA21D5C-D6FB-4C3E-8EAD-A4F150352FAC/
Al Jazeera on Latvian forests
February 4th, 2011An interesting piece by Al Jazeera on latvian forestery.
Hate crimes in OSCE in 2008
November 19th, 2009The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe recently published annual report on hate crimes for year 2008.
Consent will be required for cookies in Europe
November 19th, 2009European Parliament and the Council has adopted Directive that requires user consent to internet cookies. Directive will be in force across the European Union within 18 months.
See: Directive amending Directive 2002/22/EC, 2002/58/EC and 2006/2004 (PDF).
Estonia and e-ID
April 19th, 2009Today I stumbled upon one piece about Estonian digital revolution. Report is interesting though superficial.
