The first (and so far the only) investigative journalism non-profit organisation in the Baltics, Baltic Centre For Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica, turned five this August and celebrated the anniversary by organising a journalism rock-festival in the Latvia’s capital Riga.
When a nephew of Uzbekistan’s president bought two hotels in the Latvian capital of Riga, he couldn’t have foreseen that the acquisition would turn into something like the plot of a thriller.
Children of Uzbekistan’s elite has bought property in Latvia, used country to give birth to first-family child and allegedly used local banks to handle millions of dollars in bribes. While more than 1,500 Uzbeks have taken advantage of the country’s…
When a nephew of Uzbekistan’s president bought two hotels in the Latvian capital of Riga, he couldn’t have foreseen that the acquisition would turn into something like the plot of a thriller, reminiscent of the early 1990s of eastern European…
Former KGB officer who after collapse of USSR became a millionaire as an intermediary in Russian gas trade to Latvia appears to be instrumental in helping high-ranking Uzbek security officials to gain a second base in Latvia.
Baltic Centre For Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica, Centre For Media Studies in SSE Riga in cooperation with the Russian language channel of Estonian public broadcaster, ETV+, has successfully concluded three-week training of journalists in Narva region, Estonia, in March 2016.
Two investigations done by Re:Baltica about inequality in Latvian schools and the dark practices in the payday loan industry – are among the finalists of the Latvian Journalists Association’s (LJA) annual prize of excellence in 2015, the organizers announced on…
For a second year the bachelor degree students from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) are learning the media literacy with a teachers from Baltic Centre For Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica.
Will pressure from the United States, fear of losing the last dollar correspondent account and an impending vote on admission into the OECD finally force Latvia to curb the laundering of dirty money for shady figures from the former Soviet…