Related Research Articles
Skonto FC was a Latvian professional football club, active from 1991 until 2016. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption, and often provided the core of the Latvia national football team. With those 14 national championships in a row, they set a European record, men and women's football combined, until the women of Faroese club KÍ Klaksvík won their 14th championship in a row in 2013.
Latvia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 24 times since making its debut at the contest in 2000, where the song "My Star" performed by the group Brainstorm finished third. Latvia won the contest in 2002, with the song "I Wanna" by Marie N, defeating Malta by 12 points. Latvia is the second former Soviet country to win the contest. The 2003 contest was held in the Latvian capital Riga. The country achieved its third top 10 result in 2005, when "The War Is Not Over" by Walters and Kazha finished fifth. The Latvian participant broadcaster in the contest is Latvijas Televīzija (LTV), which select its entrant since 2015 with the national selection Supernova.
Diana Starkova is a French beauty queen of Monegasque origin, who won Miss Europe beauty pageant. She is a student of Paris-Sorbonne University. of History of Art and Archeology department.
Mārtiņš Karsums is a Latvian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš of the Slovak Extraliga.
Miss Universe Latvia is a national Beauty pageant that selects the Latvian representative to the Miss Universe pageant. The contestants represent the 7 cities and 26 districts. There they would select the top 15, then the top 10 and the final 5. So far the pageant was held only thrice: 2005, 2006, and in 2022.
The Reform Party, until April 2012 known as Zatlers' Reform Party, was a centre-right political party in Latvia founded by former President Valdis Zatlers on 23 July 2011. It won 22 seats in the Saeima in the 2011 election.
The New Unity is a centre-right political alliance in Latvia. Its members are Unity and four other regional parties, and it is orientated towards liberal-conservatism and liberalism.
On 21 November 2013 the roof of a Maxima shopping centre in the Zolitūde neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, collapsed at 17:44 local time resulting in the deaths of 54 people, including three rescue workers, and injuries to another 41 people. An unknown number of people were able to leave the store on their own after the initial collapse. It was the worst disaster in Latvia since 1950, when the steamer Mayakovsky sank in Riga, killing 147 people. The disaster is often called Zolitūdes traģēdija by Latvian media outlets.
Miss Latvia is a national beauty pageant in Latvia.
Lāsma Zemene is a Latvian police officer and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Mis Latvija 2015 and represented her nation at the Miss World 2015 competition.
Anzhelika Rublevska Tahir is a Pakistani-Ukrainian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of Miss Pakistan World 2015 and was sent to Miss Earth 2016 to represent Pakistan. In 2016, she entered the Pakistani film industry.
BK Ogre is a professional basketball club based in Ogre, Latvia playing in the Latvian Basketball League and Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. The professional club was founded in 2014, but until then there was a local team that played second tier basketball. Ogre has a long history of bringing up professional players like Kaspars Bērziņš, Artūrs Bērziņš, Rinalds Sirsniņš among many others.
Miss Europe 2017 is an international beauty pageant, which was held on May 13, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea, where representatives of 35 countries were competing for the title of the first beauty. The crown and the title “Miss Europe 2017” was given to the contestant from Latvia, 26 years old Diana Kubasova. This was 60th edition of the Miss Europe pageant and the second under the Miss Europe Organization.
HK Kurbads is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It is a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League and also compete for the Latvian Cup, winning Latvian Hockey League in 2016–17 and 2017–18 season. The team played its home games at Vidzemes Ledus Halle in Ogre until 2017 when the new arena was built in Rumbula, Riga.
Movement For! is a liberal political party in Latvia. It is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum with an emphasis on social liberalism. The party was formed in August 2017. From 2018 to 2022 it was one of the members of the Development/For! alliance, before it de facto dissolved.
Dagmāra Legante-Celmiņa is a Latvian TV personality, model, actress.
Mārtiņš Staķis is a Latvian politician and businessman, Mayor of Riga from 2020 to 2023. He served as a deputy of the 13th Saeima, the Latvian parliament, until he resigned on 5 June 2020. On 29 August 2020, Staķis was elected to the Riga City Council, and on 2 October, elected Mayor of Riga.
Miss All Nations is an international beauty pageant that has been held irregularly since 1989.
Jekaterina "Kate" Alexeeva is a Latvian model, influencer, philanthropist and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Universe Latvia 2023, she represented her country at the Miss Universe 2023 in El Salvador. She was previously crowned as Miss Grand Latvia 2019.
References
- ↑ "Crown". Archived from the original on 2018-03-16. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
- ↑ "Miss Multiverse 2018 winner is..." www.missmultiverse.com. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ↑ Латвийская модель одержала победу в конкурсе «Мисс Европа 2017» , rus.tvnet.lv.
- ↑ http://apollo.tvnet.lv/zinas/ko-socialajos-tiklos-publisko-pasmaju-modele-un-miss-europe-2017-diana-kubasova/813737/ Miss Europe 2017.
- ↑ Диана Кубасова стала «Miss All Nations 2010» ,rus.tvnet.lv.
- ↑ Izklaide, DELFI (2013-12-31). "Diāna Kubasova atzīta par seksīgāko skaistuli pasaulē". delfi.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ↑ "rus.tvnet.lv". rus.tvnet.lv. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ↑ "Miss Europe 2017 at Cannes Film Festival". zimbio.com. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
- ↑ "Video: Latviete Diāna Kubasova kronēta par "Miss Eiropa 2017"! Balvā 2,5 miljonu vērts līgums, privātā lidmašīna un ne tikai! - Lapa: 1 no 1". Amizanti.lv. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
