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COUNTRY-LATVIA World without BordersMonthly update: 23rd

JANUARY 2018

Current News Host Editor

Country Editor: I didn’t get a Editor.

DEVA HARSHA VARDHAN REDDY

Music Art Sports

Youth Excellence& Leader: What is catching the attention of your youth?

Social inclusion (provided in 2013)

Better knowledge of youth (provided in 2016)

Participation (provided in 2009)

Voluntary activities (provided in 2009)

Information (provided in 2009)

Youth and the world (provided in 2013)

Council of Europe country review on national youth policy in Latvia

National report on volunteering used for the "Study on volunteering in Europe"

FESTIVALS- Riga City Festival , ,Positivus Festival , Staro Rīga Light Festival , Christmas markets in Riga ,

Song and Dance Celebration , Latvia's 100th anniversary , Jāņi.

Conferences-Mathematics ,Physics ,Chemistry ,Informatics,Engineering,Earth Sciences ,Life

Sciences ,Healthcare/Medicine Didactics, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Continuing Professional Education, Courses

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Strategy

Country challenges and opportunities

The Latvian economy is based on service industries including transportation, information technology, and financial services.The construction industry also plays animportant role, as do wood and forestryproducts, food processing, metalworking,and light industries (e.g., textiles). Tourism has been growing rapidly. Latvia has a flat corporate income tax rateof 15%. The country is well connected bymore than 80 direct flights to all majorEuropean cities, a direct twice-weekly flight to New York’s JFK Airport, and plenty of connecting flights. Latvia’s state-owned national air carrier, airBaltic, has made Riga a regional hub.

Conflicts- Possible Compromise

Russia has called 2,500 troops to an airborne military drill in its Pskov region, bordering NATO

allies Latvia and Estonia, state news agency Itar-Tass reported on Wednesday. The drill will

involve 40 aircraft, with airborne troops practicing landing in unfamiliar lands. The exercises

were described as “counterrorist” drills.

Concern has been mounting for years among some European officials over whether Russia

could strike the Baltics following its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. The sizeable

exercise of Russia’s elite paratrooper division (VDV) is set to take place off the town of Kislovo,

less than 50km from Russia’s border with Estonia, around the base of the very unit that

reportedly endured heavy losses in Ukraine in 2014. The disappearance of the Pskov soldiers,

reported killed, was one of the first high-profile pieces of evidence that Russian forces had

entered Ukraine.

Read More: Russian nuclear submarine fires cruise missile in Arctic Barents Sea

United Nations voting record

The General Assembly voted overwhelmingly during a rare emergency meeting today to ask nations not

to establish diplomatic missions in the historic city of Jerusalem, as delegates warned that the recent

decision by the United States to do so risked igniting a religious war across the already turbulent Middle

East and even beyond.

By a recorded vote of 128 in favour to 9 against (Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Marshall Islands,

Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Togo, United States), with 35 abstentions, the Assembly

adopted the resolution “Status of Jerusalem”, by which it declared “null and void” any actions intended to

alter Jerusalem’s character, status or demographic composition. Calling on all States to refrain from

establishing embassies in the Holy City, it also demanded that they comply with all relevant Security

Council resolutions and work to reverse the “negative trends” imperilling a two-State resolution of the

Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Constitution rights and Duties

The Constitution of Latvia (Latvian: Satversme) is

the fundamental law of the Republic of Latvia. Satversme is the oldestEastern or Central

European constitution still in force and the sixth oldest still-functioning republican basic law in the world.[1]It

was adopted, as it states itself in the text, by the people of Latvia, in their freely elected Constitutional

Assembly of Latviaon 15 February 1922 and came into force on 7 November 1922. It was heavily influenced

by Germany's Weimar Constitutionand the Swiss Federal Constitution. The constitution establishes the main

bodies of government (Saeima, State President,Cabinet of Ministers, Courts, State Auditor); it consists of 115

articles arranged in eight chapters.

Although the initial text consisted of two parts, the second part - which regulated citizens' rights, freedoms

and obligations - did not pass by a few votes; the chapter on fundamental human rights was added only by a

constitutional amendment in 1998.

After the 1934 Latvian coup d'état by Prime Minister of Latvia Kārlis Ulmanis, Satversme was suspended and

government assumed the law-giving functions of Saeima. This situation continued until June 17, 1940,

when Soviet Union occupied Latvia destroyed the existing regime and incorporated the Latvian SSR into the

USSR on August 5. A new, Soviet-style constitution was then introduced.

On May 4, 1990 the Supreme Soviet of LSSR passed the declaration On the Restoration of Independence of

the Republic of Latvia, declaring the 1940 Soviet annexation of Latvia illegal (as it was done by ignoring

Satversme), and therefore the Satversme and Republic of Latvia have been restored de jure. Only articles 1,

2, 3 and 6 of Satversme were reintroduced at that time by the declaration and the constitution was fully

reintroduced only by the first assembly of the 5th Saeima in 1993.

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Geographical Resources Other than peat, dolomite, and limestone, natural resources are scarce. Latvia has 531 km (330 mi) of sandy coastline, and the ports of Liepāja and Ventspils provide important warm-water harbors for the Baltic coast. Financial / Fiscal Responsibility

This Law shall specify the provisions for the establishment and operation of the Financial and Capital (hereinafter Market Commission, the Commission).

STATISTICS

Table 1: Demographic

0-20 20-30 30-50 50-70 >70 Birth rate & death rate

Female 555 555 534 234 22

Male 654 778 974 556 345

Table 2: Population

1991-2001 2001-2011 2011-2021

Female 145692 1122222 21134111

Male 142225 1564236 6785433

Table 3: Education

Primary Secondary Sr. Secondary College Post graduate

Female 6780 7869 7866 677778 99998

Male 9980 9876 9987 897666 78565

Table 4: Land

Aerable 455 754 675 567 778 345

Irrigated 233 234 345 786 669 289

Desert 125 457 289 776 778 1018

Forest 444 431 692 765 908 997

Table 5: Import & Export MAIN PARTNERS

Lithunia 17.7% Russia 14.7% Estonia 11.2% Germany 6.6% Poland 6.2% Sweden 5.1% UK 4.7%

Table 6: Finance

1990-2000 2000-2010 2010-2020

Currency value against dollars

67888999 667777709 7899654

GDP Percentage, Inflation Percentage

26.6 billion USD

SURVEY

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HISTORICAL MONUMENT – KINTU AKA

Culture of country (traditional dresses)- In summer, linen overcoats were worn, while in

winter longhomespun woolen or fur coats. Men's clothes of dark blue, brown or natural black

appeared in the second half of the 19th century when industrially-made cloth was used for

festive clothing. Men also worevests, but only for special occasions.

Religions- Lutheranism is the main Christian denomination among ethnic Latvians due to

strong historical links with the Nordic countries and Northern Germany, while Roman

Catholicism is most prevalent in Eastern Latvia (Latgale), mostly due to Polish influence.

Language - Alphabets

Foods- Rye or wheat, oats, peas, beets, cabbage, pork products and potatoes are the staples. Meat

features in most main meal dishes. But fish also is commonly consumed due to Latvia's location on the

east coast of the Baltic Sea: smoked and raw fish are quite common.

Learning from the past and present for the future- Latvia Post was founded on 2 January 1992 as a state-

owned company, prior to which multiple postal companies had already existed in the territory. On 1 November 2004,

Latvia Post was re-registered simply as a state joint-stock company instead of having the status of a nonprofit

organization state stock company. It is a member of the European Union, NATO, the Council of Europe, the United

Nations, CBSS, the IMF, NB8, NIB, OECD, OSCE, and WTO. For 2014, Latvia was listed 46th on the Human

Development Index and as a high income country on 1 July 2014.A full member of the Eurozone, it uses the euro as

its currency since 1 January 2014, replacing the Latvian lats.

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SYMBOLS & SIGNIFICANCE Country Name

Name &Picture of the student Capital-cities & monuments on the Map

Weather: Latitude : Longitude : Neighboring Countries: N:estonia W:pacific ocean E:russia

National Flag

National Animal White Wagtail

National Bird White wagtail

National Sport Basketball

National Emblem

National Flower

Leucanthemum vulgare

National Tree OAK tree

Currency EURO

Coin EURO

Stamp

Official language: Latvian Capital: Riga

Government: Representative Democracy Population:

1,929,938