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 […]

Second workshop within the research project “Russian and Belorussian Economical Presence in the Baltic States: Risks and Opportunities” was held this September 19 in Riga. The project participants – researchers from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Russia – exchanged their opinions on interim conclusions in their sections. The research scientific editor Andris Spruds chaired a discussion […]

The second work seminar of this June 2 assembled the authors of the joint project – research “Baltic Countries’ Economic Relations with Russia and Belarus: Risks and Opportunities” conducted by CEEPS and Latvian Foreign Policy Institute. This time Latvian researchers were joined also by their colleagues from Lithuania and Estonia. The emerging research authors informed […]