Saturday, May 7th, 2011
As 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 ...
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
An interesting piece by Al Jazeera on latvian forestery.
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Though it there has been no official announcement, it seems that YouTube now blocks access for visitors from Latvia to official music video clips. When you try to access one you get a notice: "This video is not available in your country."
Most probably this happened because Latvian copyright holders agency ...
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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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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Yesterday, peaceful meeting organzed by opposition party ended with riots. Riots started when official part of meeting ended and about 1000 protesters went down to Saeima (parliament of Latvia) house nearby in Old Town Riga. With shouts of “Fire the Saeima” the protesters attempted to storm into the parliament building ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Few days ago one of largest torrent trackers in Latvia file.lv was closed by police. Police seized about 40 servers and arrested two persons - server administrators and owners. They are accused in breach of copyright and illegal distribution of copyrighted material. If found guilty they can face ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
On Saturday, August 2, Latvia hold a referendum on amendments to the Constitution to give people the right to dissolve Parliament. To pass, the referendum needed 757,607 “yes” votes or half the voting population. Though referendum failed to win enough support. Only 560,000 Latvians or about 43% of Latvia's 1.5 ...
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