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Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The parliamentary elections in Latvia (6 October) were won by the Social Democratic Party Harmony, which mainly represents an electorate of the country’s Russian-speaking inhabitants. Harmony was chosen by 19.8% of the electorate, which…
OSW Studies |
| Piotr Szymański
The Baltic states are often viewed by the West and Russia as a single region. However, the different economic and demographic potentials, strategic cultures and geographic location result in differences in their defence solutions.
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The governments of the Baltic states initially voluntarily declared they would accept refugees.
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
Taking over shares of the Latvian carrier marks the beginning of an expansion for Russian Railways on the market of railway transport to Latvian ports.
OSW Commentary |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The Baltic states’ reaction to the threat from Russia has demonstrated that the level of cooperation between them is low.
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
There were no radical changes in the makeup of Latvia’s Saeima following the parliamentary election on 4 October.
Analyses |
On 9 May the Latvian parliament adopted amendments to the citizenship law following two years of work. The amendments concern above all the possibility of dual citizenship. The amended law enters into force in October 2013 and lays out…
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 31 January, the Latvian parliament passed a governmental plan setting the rules for the introduction of the euro (the government coalition cast 52 of the 100 votes). According to this plan, the euro will replace the lats on 1 January…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Kłysiński
For years now Belarus has been a key economic partner for Lithuania and Latvia. These two Baltic states have well-developed port infrastructure and thus provide what are the geographically closest and also the cheapest exit to…
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 18 February approximately 75% of those who took part in the referendum rejected the proposals of the amendments to the constitution which would establish Russian as the second state language along with Latvian and the second official…