Get a free drawing/caricature from karikaturas.lv

My friend Gatis has started new blog karikaturas.lv where he is expressing his biggest passion – drawing. Recently he started little experiment – he will draw his blog visitors for free. So, the deal is simple. You just need to send him email with your photo preferably with funny expression and wait for great hand […]

Repression of Free Expression in Latvia

The Latvian Security Police have detained a college instructor for two days of questioning and banned him from leaving the country after his release for making comments, published in a newspaper, about the Latvian banking system and currency.

about girls in Latvia

Today, while exploring the fun and useful addictomatic.com, I found how easy it can be to find information about various topics. I decided to have a look at Latvia from the side, and entered ‘’Latvia’’ in the search window. It generates a new page containing the most popular news and blog entries, photos and videos […]

Survey: “Latvian journalists are entering the blogosphere”

A month ago, a survey was carried out and information was published on how much the journalists in Latvia read blogs and are affected by them. (7 guru article in Latvian) Main findings: 82% of the surveyed journalists read blogs regularly Every fourth media worker reads blogs for entertainment More than half (58%) of the […]

blogs are being read by at least 151 000 inhabitants of Latvia

Research company TNS Latvia has carried out a survey which has shown that a truly impressive number of the inhabitants of Latvia (151 000 or almost 7% of all Latvians) read blogs. There are 952 000 inhabitants of Latvia which have used internet in past 6 months, but active internet users which have used internet in […]