„We should take into account that the modern information technologies open a wide range of possibilities which, being implemented purposefully, may influence directly the society’s awareness and system of values”, Minister of Defence Artis Pabriks indicates, stressing the necessity for experts, journalists and academicians to join their efforts in studying the urgent challenges in information […]

Education is of essential importance in the process of society integration, and it may form a united nation which, unfortunately, has not been done yet in Latvia. The divided education is not our success story, and a different solution should be considered in the future. These and the other opinions, related to the education system […]

Russia exerts a negative influence over Latvia’s society through the mass media, deepening split, hampering the society integration processes and thereby posing threats to national security – such opinion was repeatedly accentuated at the public discussion “Mass Media’s Impact on Public Opinion, National Security and National Identity”. The discussion was held on May 10 in […]

On April 26, Andis Kudors, Executive director of the Centre For East European Policy Studies, will present his lecture Latvia between Two Gravity Centres of Soft Power – the US and Russia, characterizing the US’s and Russia’s cultural impact upon social and political processes in Latvia, at the conference The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty […]

The research  „Latvia and the United States: a New Chapter in the Partnership” was presented by Andrejs Pildegovics, Latvian Ambassador to the United States, and Andis Kudors, Executive director of the Centre for East European Policy Studies (CEEPS). Heather Conley, Director of Europe Program at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, presided over the […]

On April 23, the book „Latvia and the United States: a New Chapter in the Partnership” was simultaneously presented both in Latvia and the US. Its authors highlight, as especially positive process, the so far successful cooperation between the US and Latvia in security sphere, though stressing that there still exist unused possibilities in the […]

On April 20, the Executive director of Centre for East European Policy Studies Andis Kudors participated in the Baltic Symposium in London with his presentation in the thematic section on the Baltic countries’ security issues. In his address Securitization of culture: Russian foreign policy toward Latvia, he explained how Russia, using the pretext of protection […]

A roundtable experts’ discussion, organized by Centre for East European Policy Studies (CEEPS), was held on February 16 in the premises of Riga Stock Exchange. During it, Latvian political scientists and Russia experts met Russian opposition members and human rights activists – Valeriya Novodvorskaya, the dissident and founder of the party “Democratic Union”, and entrepreneur […]