By using commercial rationale to justify the closure of a public TV show the frontier between public and private media become blurred. Read
If we continue dealing with crime by the means of impulsive repression and empty rhetoric, we may end up in the world where an individual citizen is forced to take care of his own security and keeps firearms instead of firewood in his shed. Read
t turns out that love is not a good enough reason for marriage. What is then? “Long-term relationship,” a Foreign Ministry official informed me. Read
Georgia's moving closer to NATO is not compatible with good relationship between NATO and Russia. If Georgia joins the alliance, the relationship may become reminiscent of the Cold War. Read
In a context of growing social inequalities, there are more urgent and important tasks than trying to preserve or enforce national or minority culture. Read
Year: 2008
Editor: Dace Akule
Financed by: European Commission, The Society Integration Fund of Latvia and the Soros Foundation Latvia
Language: English and Latvian (bilingual)
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The unified position taken by the Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine has marked out a new form of cooperation that is dictated by the actual events. This can be seen as a good starting point for coming together to seek out ways of reducing the split between European countries, and convincing them about the seriousness of current situation. Read
This publication includes research about the legislation that influences the integration of immigrants – labour market access, family reunification conditions, anti-discrimination, political participation. Read
There is convincing evidence that political connections are pervasive in Latvia and that they provide benefits to the connected firms. This implies that the risk that our democracy is a mere 'façade' is too high to be ignored. Read
Until the relevant political officials find a way of protecting children in a preventive way, we will continue to lose children from time to time. Read