The Latvian Green Party is a green political party in Latvia.
The Union of Greens and Farmers is an agrarian political alliance in Latvia. It is made up of the Latvian Farmers' Union,Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party,and For Latvia and Ventspils.
Andris Šķēle is a Latvian former politician and business oligarch. He served two terms as Prime Minister of Latvia from 1995 to 1997,and again from 1999 to 2000.
Ūkio Bankas was a Lithuanian commercial bank based in Kaunas. More than 50% of shares are owned by Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov who therefore is in the control of the bank. It was the fifth largest and oldest private bank in Lithuania.
Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš is an American-Latvian politician who served as the prime minister of Latvia from 2019 until 2023. A linguist and businessman by profession,he previously served as Latvia's minister of Economics and a Member of the European Parliament. Born in Wilmington,Delaware,United States,to parents who had left Latvia during the Soviet occupation,he was active in the American Latvian community throughout his youth.
Diena is a Latvian language national daily newspaper in Latvia,published since 23 November 1990. It is one of Latvia's largest daily periodicals and used to be considered as a paper of record.
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Nils Ušakovs is a Latvian politician,former mayor of Riga and former journalist. He has been the board chairman of the left-wing party alliance Harmony Centre (2005–2014) and afterwards board chairman of the Social Democratic Party "Harmony" (2014–2019). In 2009 Ušakovs was elected the Mayor of Riga,becoming the first Riga Mayor of Russian descent since Latvia's restoration of sovereignty in 1991,a position he continuously held until his dismissal in 2019.
Ainārs Šlesers is a Latvian business oligarch and politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Latvia,as well as Deputy Mayor of Riga. Currently he is a member of the Latvian Parliament with his political party,Latvia First,holding 9 seats in the parliament.
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 6 October 2018. Following the elections,a coalition government was formed by Who owns the state?,the New Conservative Party,Development/For!,the National Alliance and New Unity. Despite being from the smallest elected party,Arturs Krišjānis Kariņšof New Unity was chosen as prime minister.
Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi is a Ukrainian-born Israeli–Cypriot billionaire businessman,once considered the leading oligarch in Ukraine.
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader,lawyer,anti-corruption activist,and political prisoner. He organised anti-government demonstrations and ran for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia and against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny was founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience,and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.
Parex Bank was a Latvian bank founded in 1992 by Valērijs Kargins and Viktors Krasovickis as a privately owned full-service banking company in Riga,Latvia that was very dominant in currency exchange in the 1990s. It had local and international clients in both the West and Russia with close ties to the Tambovskaya Russian mafia in St Petersburg and Vladimir Putin.
Corruption in Switzerland describes the prevention and occurrence of corruption in Switzerland.
For Latvia and Ventspils is a regionalist political party in Latvia that mainly operates as a localist party in Ventspils. It is mostly known for its chairman,Aivars Lembergs,who has been mayor of Ventspils between 1988 until his arrest in 2021. In 2006,the party signed an agreement with the Union of Greens and Farmers to allow members of For Latvia and Ventspils to be elected to the Saeima,including the former speaker of the parliament Gundars Daudze,and current members Dana Reizniece-Ozola and Jānis Vucāns. Since then,Lembergs has been named as a candidate for the position of the prime minister many times.
NeatkarīgāRīta Avīze is a Latvian language national daily newspaper in Latvia,published in Riga. Since 5 May 2020,it is only published online,with the last print edition coming out on 30 April 2020.
He Is Not Dimon to You or Don't Call Him Dimon is a 2017 Russian documentary film detailing alleged corruption by Dmitry Medvedev who was Prime Minister of Russia at the time of release. The film estimates that $1.2 billion was embezzled by Dmitry Medvedev.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 2011 by Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. The FBK published investigations into alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian government officials. The organisation was funded by private donations.
The Danske Bank money laundering scandal arose in 2017-2018,when it became known that around €800 billion of suspicious transactions had flowed from Estonian,Russian,Latvian and other sources through the Estonia-based bank branch of Denmark-based Danske Bank from 2007 to 2015. It has been described as possibly the largest money laundering scandal ever in Europe,and as possibly the largest in world history. It includes incoming funds from Estonia (23%),Russia (23%),Latvia (12%),Cyprus (9%),UK (4%) and others. Outgoing funds were distributed between Estonia (15%),Latvia (14%),China (7%),Switzerland (6%),Turkey (6%) and others (52%)
The United List is a centrist to centre-right,regionalist and green conservative political alliance in Latvia established to contest the 2022 parliamentary election. The list consists of the Latvian Green Party,the Latvian Association of Regions,the Liepāja Party,as well as the "United List of Latvia" association led by Liepāja construction contractor Uldis Pīlēns.
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