Government, Politics, Law: Latvia

Links to Latvian government executive, legislative, and judicial sites; law and political party sites. For a Library of Congress resource on Latvian law, consult the Latvia section of the Guide to Law Online, at the Global Legal Information Network site. For census information about Latvia and other FSU or former Soviet-bloc countries see also The Census Online: Internet Census Resources for Eastern Europe and the FSU .

General Resources

Electionworld.org / Elections around the world (http://www.electionworld.org)
A database on national elections, including the results of the latest elections, with links to parliaments and political parties. Select "Latvia" from the drop-down menu.

European Government and Politics: Latvia (http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/eubasel.htm)
Sponsored by the Keele European Research Centre, Keele University, a gateway to sites on government, political parties, and media sources. In English.

European Governments on the WWW (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/europa.html)
For each country, the site links to ministries and other national institutions, municipal institutions, diplomatic representations abroad, and political parties; with many links to additional resources. In English.

Political Resources on the Net - Europe (http://www.politicalresources.net/europe.htm)
Provides extensive links for each country's government, political parties and the media. In English.

Executive, Legislative, Judiciary

Latvijas Valsts prezidenta kanceleja (http://www.president.lv/index.php?pid=010)
The Chancery of the President site provides a biography of the President, information on and links to the various state agencies responsible to the Chancery. Multilingual.

Latvijas Republikas Ministru Kabineta (http://www.mk.gov.lv)
Ministers of the Republic of Latvia site provides information on the duties of the Cabinet Ministers, State Chancellery and Prime Minister. Also provides links to the individual Ministries, government authorities of Latvia, contact information and news with an archives going back to 2002. In Latvian, Russian, German and English.

Latvijas Republikas Saeima (http://www.saeima.lv)
The Latvian Parliament site features the rules of procedure, a list of members of parliamentary committees, with an archives of previous members and qualifications, and contacts for committees and political parties. In Latvian and English.

Latvijas Tiesu Portāls (http://www.tiesas.lv)
Latvia Courts Portals describes the court and legal system with information on judicial training, court opinions in Latvian, and links to some law journals. In Latvian, with a limited version in English.

Constitution and Law

Constitution Finder (http://confinder.richmond.edu)
The University of Richmond, in Virginia, provides this portal to constitutions world-wide. Most texts are in English, but some are in the vernacular languages. Select "Latvia" from the dropdown menu.

Latvijas Republikas Saeima (http://www.saeima.lv/Likumdosana%5Feng/likumdosana%5Fsatversme.html)
Latvian Constitution, in English.

FindLaw (http://www.findlaw.com/12international/countries/index.html)
Links to many of the best resources (both free and fee-based) on legislation in each country. Includes annotations in English. Maintained by Findlaw, a commercial website of legal resources.

National Copyright Legislation (http://www.unesco.org/culture/copyright/)
UNESCO provides translations into English of copyright laws in most countries.

World Law (http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2775.html)
Based in Austria, the World Law website links to information on courts and case-law, education, government, legislation, other indexes, parliament, alternative dispute resolution, elections, infrastructure, intellectual property, military law, poverty reduction, privatization, and secured transactions. In English.