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The mayors of Riga, Tallinn, and Vilnius made a joint appeal to Google on September 16, demanding complete and up-to-date representation of cycling infrastructure across the three Baltic capitals in Google Maps.
Riga Mayor Viesturs Kleinbergs joined his counterparts Jevgeni Ossinovski from Tallinn and Valdas Benkunskas from Vilnius...
August 24th, 2018151528The Swedish furniture giant IKEA is finally set to open doors in Riga. The long-awaited IKEA Store is located in East Riga — just outside of Mežciems a.k.a. the Forest Village.
The Grand Opening will take place August 30 on the IKEA Latvia premises, with the first IKEA store in Latvia, and the largest in the Baltics, to welcome...
December 9th, 20166428295The President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis and The Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas met in Riga on Friday to discuss future cooperation.
Ratas has assumed office in late November, and the meeting was scheduled to inform Vējonis of Estonian government's plans.
The new PM of Estonia stressed that the new government would keep to the...
November 23rd, 201622840The Startup Law, approved today by the Latvian Parliament will create a tax regime, one not matched anywhere else in Europe, that will effectively double venture capital investors’ money in young Latvian startups. This law is seen as part of a wider push to make Latvia an attractive base for startups. The law was passed with almost...
August 29th, 20164554The Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference holds its 25th annual conference on 28-30 August 2016 in Riga. The Latvian parliament is host of this Silver Jubilee edition under the chairmanship of the BSPC-President and President of the Baltic Assembly Prof. Dr. Jānis Vucāns. Around 200 parliamentarians, ambassadors of the Baltic Sea States...
