"To dispel the stereotype about the inaccessibility of lawyers, the portal www.vajagjuristu.lv was created." As I continue to believe that Latvia's greatest misfortune is that qualified lawyers are inaccessible (in the sense that one cannot afford them), a few reflections.
One of the most significant expense items for a company is wages. In SEZ companies (including B.L.B Baltic Terminal) in 2012, the average net wage was 530 EUR. Assuming the company directed all its profit towards wages, the maximum theoretical wage would increase by only ~100 EUR.
Although the European Parliament elections are not those that will directly affect our (and your) lives, if there is an extra opportunity to choose the one you prefer, it is at least worth thinking about: a) whether to participate in the elections, b) if participating, then whom to vote for, and finally - c) if voting, then why for this particular party or candidate?
Just as with statistics, it seems one can also apply to the media the saying that there are lies, damned lies, and media. Although a piece of news is in itself a reflection of an event, the path by which this news reaches the reader's or listener's field of view can be ambiguous.
Collecting matchboxes and selling them online, founding an association for research into anomalous phenomena, creating a typing speed measurement tool, making an art installation from burnt-out light bulbs, and so on. Sometimes, seeing something created in this way, one wants to exclaim - what mushrooms has he been eating?!
Recent events connected with the collapsed Zolitūde Maxima shopping centre, and especially the way in which representatives of state power and local government present, conceal and interpret them, involuntarily prompted reflections that go considerably deeper than an answer to the trivial question of who is to blame. If one looks at history, it is nothing unusual in Russia for some apartment block to be blown up and in the course of the "investigation" it emerges that the guilty parties were Chechens or Caucasians.
The value of a human life. However oddly this may sound in this sad moment, in a state the value of every person has been calculated. Including the value of children and elderly people. State men and women never speak of this aloud, but such calculations possibly serve as the basis for many decisions. Although emotions are the only thing each of us feels acutely and truly, a state cannot be governed on the basis of emotions alone...
Although the Riga City Council's environmental department, judging by its employees' statements, bears no responsibility for air quality and has no obligation to monitor or do anything in this area, the European Commission's threatening finger and MEPRD's persistent urging has nevertheless prompted A. Kļaviņš to reluctantly set about an action programme.
From the document we can conclude that the cultural centre had a reconstruction plan drawn up, which had moreover at some point been approved. With the election of new political forces to the Riga City Council, the emphasis on cultural and space use also changed. In 2009, the Draudzība cultural centre became unnecessary for the Riga City Council.
"He shared my photo!" - says a Facebook user. Your photograph (a human rights violation) or your painted painting (a copyright violation) or simply the image you spotted first in the whole jumble of visual information and shared (no violation from a contemporary standpoint)?