Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 20th, 2009
It seems Economic police (EP) recently closed Latvian torrent tracker outlaw.lv. Website is closed down with announcement "Thanks to EP, tracker temporarily closed".
In last August police closed another torrent tracker - file.lv.
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Today Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) adopted amendments in Law on traffic forbidding residents of Latvia to drive vehicles registered in other countries. Authors of these provisions stated they are needed because lot of residents of Latvia drive cars registred in neighbouring Lithuania, thus avoiding paying road tax in Latvia and ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Recently the Latvian Minister of Justice Gaidis Berzins from Fatherland & Freedom Party proposed drafting a law that would drastically restrict media coverage of criminal cases by forbidding the publication or quoting of case evidence and other materials in case (based on leaked documents and materials made public by the ...
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