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American way

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

(Unfortunately I don’t know who’s author of this wonderful cartoon.)

Al Jazeera on Latvian forests

Friday, February 4th, 2011

An interesting piece by Al Jazeera on latvian forestery.

Hate crimes in OSCE in 2008

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe recently published annual report on hate crimes for year 2008.

Open day in public institutions

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

On September 19 the State Chancellery organizes Open day in public institutions. On this day different public institutions will be open for public. Excursions, exhibitions, seminars, presentations and meetings will be organized. Institutions involved: Chancery of the President, Parliament, Cabinet of Ministers and The State Chancellery, and Ministries. ...

EU studies cannabis

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

European Monitoring centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction just released survey on cannabis. It reveals interesting data. Anyvay, cannabis is controversial phenomena in European [counter]culture. Over 13 million Europeans have consumed it in the past month. Globally, nearly 50,000 tonnes of cannabis herb or resin are produced for consumption every year. You ...

From Russia with hate

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Neo-Nazis are Russia's problem for more than 10 years if not even more. Cases of racially based crime crise each year. Though officially confronted by government forces they are often (unofficially) backed my local authorities. I remember visiting Voronez around '99 and i saw advertisements of RNE (Russian National Unity ...

Critical mass in Riga

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Each year 1st May (which s holiday in Latvia) is the day of critical mass in Riga - with aim to manifest that Riga despite some bike roads is very unfriendly and dangerous city for byciclers. It's already 6th year if i remember correctly. Unfortunately i don't own a bike so ...

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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

This is my English blog on different freedom issues. I'm going to write about situation and news in Latvia and European Union.