... collapse, when Mikhail Gorbachev's
Glasnost
reforms were underway. First, the Popular Fronts across these republics proposed an entirely different interpretation of those events. On May 13-14, 1989, the “Baltic Assembly of Popular Fronts of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania” convened in Tallinn and passed a Resolution on Stalinist Crimes, stating that “after being annexed in summer 1940, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were seized by the totalitarian regime which launched ...
On March 17, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a seminar entitled
“The Prospects for EU–Russia Relations under Latvian Presidency
”. The event was organized jointly with the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Moscow.
Opening speeches were made by RIAC President
Igor Ivanov
, the Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia to Russia
Astra Kurme
and the head ...
The Latvian Presidency of the EU Council
Amidst the current geopolitical crisis, Latvia, which calls for the international isolation of Russia, took over the rotating Presidency of the EU Council on January 1, 2015. The Eastern Partnership program that ...
On December 15, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeev received a team of Latvian MFA on a visit to Moscow for official consultations on Latvian EU presidency, Russia-EU cooperation and bilateral relations with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On October 16, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met Astra Kurme, Latvian Ambassador to Moscow, and Reinis Brusbardis, Third Secretary to discuss issues related to Latvia's EU presidency in the first half of 2015, possible ways to overcome the crisis in relations between Moscow and Brussels, and improving the efficiency ...
Nikolay Mezhevich, Ph.D. (Economics). Professor, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University. Amidst a severe lack of Russian-language media coverage of the elections in Latvia, the web portal Delfi published an article with the headline: “Scandal? Putin’s Fan Wins Latvian Elections.” The Ukrainian Podrobnosti (“Details”) was not far behind - “Pro-Kremlin the National Harmony Party ...
The Consequences of Latvia's Accession to the Eurozone
The EU debt crisis has brought several vulnerabilities of the Eurozone to the surface, raising the issue of economic consistency of Brussels' monetary policy. Slower economic growth, strict budgetary discipline, rising ...
