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Knickers to Russian truckers! Knickers production is going ‘East’ while Russian truckers float off in the opposite direction.
BOTTOM FALLS OUT OF LATVIAN UNDERWEAR: It was a sad day for smallholders everywhere in April when Latvia’s Lauma lingerie maker announced that it is shifting the bulk of its production overseas in a costcutting exercise. The Liepaja based manufacturer of cheap frills wil

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Current AFFAIRS The Latvian government has decided to offer Nordic telecoms group TeliaSonera the opportunity to swap its shares in mobile operator LMT for Telia’s shares in Lattelecom,
the prime minister said. Latvia has been grappling for years over whether to sell or keep shares in fixedline operator Lattelecom. Telia have already given an initial nod to the scheme. Both Lattelecom and LMT are

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Don't go dirty, don't go nuclear Energy companies are not denying that there is a climate change, but they are in denial over their own role in it. What we need is a paradigm shift. An interview with Jan Haverkamp, Greenpeace EU policy campaigner, by Rita Rudusa

You are planning to visit Latvia regularly and a part of your agenda is meeting K�rlis Miķelsons, head of Latvenergo [Latvian energ

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Gays to Close Riga for People, Vehicles, Motorboats The parade of the sexual minorities on May 31 will close up a part of Old Riga and the November 11 Embankment. The Riga Duma press service reported to NovoNews that the police will isolate the part of the Embankment from Kalku to Muitas str. from midnight through 3pm.

Daugavas Gatve from Shooters Square to the Embankment will also be closed up. Transport and pedestrians will not

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Latvia’s Imagined Status of Exceptionalism Latvians love to be exceptional. Our nation is the only one which has such a grand Song Festival, this summer it will again bring together thousands of singers and folk dancers. Ours is the only country in which the Latvian language develops. In one wing of the Latvian people, there is the festering belief that no other nation in the entire history of the world has ever suffered such great pain

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DANCE HEAVEN Every pop star and his or her dog are due in town this summer ready to perform to crowded stadiums. If 50 euros for 90 minutes of them regurgitating old tunes doesn’t seem like good value then invest your cash instead in the allnight hedonistic dancemusic extravaganza which is Sensation White.
For those of you who haven’t yet come across the Sensation White phenomenon, be

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The good pirate of Latvia As children, we all have big dreams. Some of us want to be famous rock stars; others want to be pirates; and some even want to help change the world.
The Italian performer Robert Meloni has grown up to do all of those things, and more, right here in Latvia! For the second year in a row, Roberto will be part of the group that represents Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest Festival (May 2