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Marraskuussa 2013 tapahtuneen jälkeen pääministeri erosi. Uuden hallituksen nousi tammikuussa 2014 edellisen hallituksen maatalousministerinä toiminut 62-vuotias yhtenäisyyspuolueesta. Hän oli Latvian ensimmäinen naispääministeri. Keskustaoikeistolainen hallitus sai parlamentilta luottamuslauseen 22. tammikuuta 2014. Hallitukseen kuuluvat kaikki porvaripuolueet ja lisäksi siihen kuuluu puolueisiin sitoutumaton liikenneministeri. Oppositioon jäi vain Riian pormestarin johtama harmoniapuolue, joka on vasemmistolainen ja venäläismielinen. Straujuma ilmoitti joulukuussa 2015 eroavansa pääministerin tehtävistä. Hallituksen sisällä, erityisesti yhtenäisyyspuolueessa, oli erimielisyyksiä ja pääministerin johtamistapaa oli arvosteltu virkamiesmäisen harmaaksi. Helmikuussa 2016 maa uudeksi pääministeriksi nimitettiin .
However, the central power in Moscow continued to regard Latvia as a Soviet republic in 1990 and 1991. In January 1991, Soviet political and military forces unsuccessfully tried to overthrow the Republic of Latvia authorities by occupying the central publishing house in Riga and establishing a Committee of National Salvation to usurp governmental functions. During the transitional period, Moscow maintained many central Soviet state authorities in Latvia.
Tammikuussa 2019 Latvia sai uusista puolueista muodostuneen hallituksen, jonka pääministerinä aloitti . Hallituksen suurimmat puolueet olivat Uusi konservatiivinen puolue (JKP) ja Kenelle valtio kuuluu (KPV LV), jotka oli perustettu muutaman edellisen vuoden sisällä. Pääministeripuolue Uusi yhtenäisyys oli koko parlamentin pienin puolue.
Latvian tasavallan suurlähetystö Suomen tasavallassa
advocated that all permanent residents be eligible for Latvian citizenship, however, universal citizenship for all permanent residents was not adopted. Instead, citizenship was granted to persons who had been citizens of Latvia on the day of loss of independence in 1940 as well as their descendants. As a consequence, the majority of ethnic non-Latvians did not receive Latvian citizenship since neither they nor their parents had ever been citizens of Latvia, becoming or citizens of other former Soviet republics. By 2011, more than half of non-citizens had taken exams and received Latvian citizenship, but in 2015 there were still 290,660 non-citizens in Latvia, which represented 14.1% of the population. They have , and cannot participate in the parliamentary elections. Children born to non-nationals after the re-establishment of independence are automatically entitled to citizenship.
In 1989, the adopted a resolution on the , in which it declared the occupation "not in accordance with law", and not the "will of the Soviet people". Pro-independence Popular Front of Latvia candidates gained a two-thirds majority in the in the . On 4 May 1990, the Supreme Council adopted the , and the Latvian SSR was renamed Republic of Latvia.
The Republic of Latvia declared the end of the transitional period and restored full independence on 21 August 1991, in the aftermath of the failed . Latvia resumed diplomatic relations with Western states, including Sweden. The , Latvia's parliament, was again elected in 1993. Russia ended its military presence by completing its troop withdrawal in 1994 and shutting down the radar station in 1998.
Latvian lokakuussa 2018 suurimmaksi puolueeksi tuli Venäjä-mielinen Harmonia-puolue, joka sai äänistä 19,91 prosenttia. Toiseksi tuli itsensä eliittiä ja valtamediaa vastaan asemoiva Kuka omistaa valtion (KPV LV) 14,06 prosentin osuudella ja kolmanneksi suurimman äänisaaliin sai Uusi konservatiivinen puolue JKP 13,6 prosentilla. EU- ja Nato-myönteinen Kehityksen puolesta/For! -koalitio sai 12,04 prosenttia äänistä ja istuvan pääministerin puolue, Vihreiden ja maanviljelijöiden liitto, sai äänistä 9,96 prosenttia. Sosiaalidemokraattinen Harmonia ajaa lähinnä Latvian venäjänkielisen väestön etuja. Hallituspuolueet kokivat vaaleissa tappion, sillä Harmonia ja populistipuolueet saivat yhdessä 55 edustajaa 100-paikkaiseen parlamenttiin.
Politics in Latvia operate under a framework laid out in the .
In the second half of the 1980s, Soviet leader started to introduce political and economic reforms in the Soviet Union that were called and . In the summer of 1987, the first large demonstrations were held in Riga at the —a symbol of independence. In the summer of 1988, a national movement, coalescing in the , was opposed by the . The Latvian SSR, along with the other was allowed greater autonomy, and in 1988, the old pre-war flew again, replacing the Soviet Latvian flag as the official flag in 1990.
Latvian kansallislintu on ja on maan kansalliskukka.
Approximately 72% of Latvian citizens are Latvian, while 20% are Russian. The government denationalized private property confiscated by the Soviets, returning it or compensating the owners for it, and most state-owned industries, reintroducing the . Albeit having experienced a difficult transition to a liberal economy and its re-orientation toward Western Europe, Latvia is one of the fastest growing economies in the European Union. In November 2013, at a shopping center in Riga, causing Latvia’s worst post-independence disaster with the deaths of 54 rush hour shoppers and rescue personnel.
Sanan latvia käännös englanti-suomi
in Latvia is almost complete. Virtually all of the previously state-owned small and medium companies have been privatised, leaving only a small number of politically sensitive large state companies. The private sector accounted for 70% of the country's GDP in 2006.
LatviaHyvä, Latvia tekee kaiken tämän
Since the year 2000, Latvia has had one of the highest (GDP) growth rates in Europe. However, the chiefly consumption-driven growth in Latvia resulted in the collapse of Latvian GDP in late 2008 and early 2009, exacerbated by the global economic crisis, shortage of credit and huge money resources used for the bailout of . The Latvian economy fell 18% in the first three months of 2009, the biggest fall in the European Union.
Ilmainen Sanakirja (latvia-englanti)
Latvia is a member of the (1999) and the (2004). On 1 January 2014, the became the country's currency, superseding the . According to statistics in late 2013, 45% of the population supported the introduction of the euro, while 52% opposed it. Following the introduction of the Euro, Eurobarometer surveys in January 2014 showed support for the euro to be around 53%, close to the European average.