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10.12.2008, 10:50
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Latvia is preparing to double the so-called “language fine” for using a non-state language in the workplace. Offenders caught speaking a foreign tongue in any office or business will soon have to pay the equivalent of $100.
11.12.2008, 22:34
Estonia’s president won’t let his MPs lose a penny even if they want to. Toomas Hendrik Ilves is proposing that the State Court annuls a law freezing the salaries of deputies in the country’s parliament – on the grounds it’s unconstitutional.
Published: 10 December, 2008, 09:45
Activists who opposed the demolition of a Soviet war memorial in Tallinn appear in court in the Estonian capital on Wednesday. The four men are charged with staging mass riots in April 2007 after a decision by Estonian authorities to remove the monument.
