Lembergs, often referred to as one of Latvia’s ‘oligarchs,’ however, seemed to already understand that Saeima was not to survive the vote. As Lembergs explained his decision on the TV channel LNT, he was expecting to hear some arguments for the dissolution of the parliament, ...

In connection with these changes, the ministry does not rule out cuts to the workforce of the institutions but confirms that there will not be a major wave of redundancies. The Interior Ministry has completed and sent for approval a draft law according to which the local Rescue Board departmen...

“There has never been any anti-Semitism in Estonia at the state level,” he explained. “Even with the Estonian people, who suffered terribly under totalitarian regimes over the years, anti-Semitism and racism are simply not in their nature.” Ansip reiterated that all inc...

Sixteen of them were in the Tomsk region and eight in Tajikistan. On their way back, they met at a railway station in Moscow. During 20 days, those young Lithuanians visited the graves of Lithuanian deportees. The mass deportations of the Lithuanian population to remote areas of the USSR were st...

282/2011 (hereinafter – the Regulation) of March 15, 2011 has entered into force on July 1, 2011 and lays down the implementing measures for Directive 2006/112/EC (hereinafter – the Directive) on the common system of value added tax (hereinafter – VAT). The Regulation sets the ...