President Karis in Davos: Naive to see Russia as part of Europe
Seeing Russia as in any way, shape or form as part of Europe's security architecture rather than a threat to it, is at the very least naive, President Alar Karis says.
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Seeing Russia as in any way, shape or form as part of Europe's security architecture rather than a threat to it, is at the very least naive, President Alar Karis says.
The Ministry of Defense is currently considering the creation of another international military base in Latvia, Defense Minister Artis Pabriks told LETA on April 25.
In the fifth round of EU sanctions adopted in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the union prohibited freight transport on member state territory by Russian and Belarusian carriers from 16 April. Alongside the EU prohibitions on flights and...
During a meeting in Spain April 25, Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkēvičs, pressed the need for a quick decision on establishing a permanent NATO presence in the Baltic states, as oppo...
On April 19, the Latvian Economy Minister Jānis Vitenbergs announced his government’s decision to support entirely abandoning natural gas supplies from Russia by the end of 2022 (Em.gov.lv, April 19). The strategy in that regard relies on expanding liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification capacity across the region—that is, both domestically in Latvia and in neighboring Estonia, Finland as well as, …