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People in Moscow got arrested for wearing white ribbons

Atis — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:32:10 +0000

This video footage shows people getting arrested in Red square (Moscow, Russia) just for wearing white ribbons (as ant-Putins sign) and without any explanation from officials.

Latvia against ACTA

Atis — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:10:26 +0000

While there were ongoing protests against ACTA in whole Europe on Saturday, Latvia faced such protest on Monday (February 13). More that 300 protesters gathered at the Cabinet of Ministers. Already few days earlier Minister of Economics Daniels Pavļuts postponed ratification of agreement. Though yesterday Prime minister Valdis Dombrovskis acknowledged possibility that ACTA might be rejected.

Source (in Latvian): http://www.tvnet.lv/tehnologijas/internets/410627-dombrovskis_neizsledz_acta_noraidisanu

Latvian police detain peaceful protestors

Atis — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:56:13 +0000

On October 5 Latvian police detained three persons in center of capital Riga spontaneously protesting against the actions of a political party. Also three bystanders were detained as well. Read more here: http://freespeechlatvia.blogspot.com/2011/10/latvian-police-deliberately-detain.html

TV journalist fired for calling politicians “whores”

Atis — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:49:41 +0000

Journalist and host of political Latvian TV show Skats no malas (A View from The Sidelines) Kārlis Streips was fired for calling the Latvia’s Green and Farmer’s Union political party a "whores" during his show. Here is more info on that: http://freespeechlatvia.blogspot.com/2011/09/latvian-talk-show-host-booted-after-16.html

American way

Atis — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:15:34 +0000

(Unfortunately I don’t know who’s author of this wonderful cartoon.)

Critical mass

Atis — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:55:27 +0000

As each year 1st May in Riga Critical mass took place. Police didn’t took the event in their hands as last year (they escorted cyclers with flashing lights) and was intolerant and rude as usual. Though men at power tried another tactics to steal the event – Riga city mayor Nils Ušakovs organized his own cycling event earlier that day so bicyclers were split between the two events. Still there were enough participants to make the mass critical.

Pictures and articles (in Latvian) from event:

http://www.xlt.lv/blogs/15127/atskats-uz-kritisko-masu-11/

http://ojars.kapteinis.lv/kritiska-masa-2011-riga/

http://aculiecinieks.delfi.lv/news/sabiedriba/ritenbraucejs-usakova-pr-akcija-censas-konkuret-ar-tautas-iedibinatu-tradiciju.d?id=38285829#!/1999854

http://andzh.kw-art.org/node/11

http://teikasgaisma.blogspot.com/2011/05/ar-velo-pa-rigu.html

http://foto.delfi.lv/album/76966/

http://foto.delfi.lv/album/76968/

http://www.leta.lv/foto/sources/leta/album/1BA21D5C-D6FB-4C3E-8EAD-A4F150352FAC/

Al Jazeera on Latvian forests

Atis — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:06:21 +0000

An interesting piece by Al Jazeera on latvian forestery.

Hate crimes in OSCE in 2008

Atis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:06:12 +0000

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe recently published annual report on hate crimes for year 2008.

Consent will be required for cookies in Europe

Atis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:11 +0000

European Parliament and the Council has adopted Directive that requires user consent to internet cookies. Directive will be in force across the European Union within 18 months.

See: Directive amending Directive 2002/22/EC, 2002/58/EC and 2006/2004 (PDF).

Estonia and e-ID

Atis — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:08:12 +0000

Today I stumbled upon one piece about Estonian digital revolution. Report is interesting though superficial.