Re:Baltica presents their work to Swedish investigative journalists
Re:Baltica founder Inga Spriņģe and executive director Sanita Jemberga have presented their work in the annual conference of the Swedish investigative journalists “Gräv 2015”.
MLDI: The big guys don’t care about winning – they want to damage the lives of journalists
Award-winning journalist Inga Springe is the founder of Re:Baltica – The Baltic Centre for Investigative Journalism, based in Riga, Latvia. We worked with Inga when Re:Baltica was sued for defamation in 2012. Here she describes what drives her and how…
Putin’s middle class is fleeing to Latvia
Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary director, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolt hole outside of the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching the news in…
An investor with an income of 64,000 euros per month and other fairy tales
In the discussions about Latvia’s Golden Visa program the investors’ profiles have been exaggerated, and research has been paid for by the powerful real estate lobby. Its strong influence over parliament members is evident. Re:Baltica examines the most popular arguments…
Who has a second base in Latvia?
For the investigation, the property deals were selected which value exceeded 250 000 EUR and which were done between the October 2013, when Maidan in Ukraine started, and September 2014, when the new conditions for Latvian golden visas were introduced.
Latvia torn between money and fear of Russia
For almost a year Re:Baltica collected information from Latvia’s business, land and property registers and analysed the 315 most expensive real estate deals in Latvia where foreigners were involved. The purpose was to get a full picture of the people…
Infograph: How much for a “golden visa” in EU country?
Infograph shows collected information about “golden visas” in other EU countries.
Re:Baltica starts teaching in SSE
We have good news! In February, 2015, Re:Baltica (that is, Inga Spriņģe and Sanita Jemberga) will start to teach the first Re:Baltica course, Introduction To Media Literacy, in the highly regarded Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.
After prison, a will to change is not enough
Having received his release papers from the prison’s management, on an average day of the Baltic autumn Rimantas Muka (31) moved through the gates of Alytus prison in Lithuania. He bought a kebab and a soda at a nearby kiosk.…