Riga Rooster

The Riga Rooster HOLY agrees with the comments in this Press Release and fully supports even stronger fines and more jail time.

RIGA, Feb 19 (LETA) - The foreigners who urinate by the Freedom Monument are pigs, Interior Minister Mareks Seglins (People's Party) expressed to members of the press today.

As reported, today, the Riga Central Court imposed a five-day administrative arrest against a British citizen (born 1974) who was caught yesterday relieving himself at the Freedom Monument in Riga. He is the first foreigner who has been arrested for such conduct in Latvia.

Seglins, commenting on the recent ''tradition'' of foreigners relieving themselves by the Freedom Monument, told members of the press: ''Pigs those English. Full of filthy blokes!''

The politician emphasized that a bill is being put forward at Saeima that would give police officers more authority in similar situations.

As reported, Riga Mayor Janis Birks (For Fatherland And Freedom/LNNK) believes that harsher penalties must be introduced for people who can find no better place than the Freedom Monument to relieve themselves.

Last week, amendments to the Administrative Violations Code, proposed by Birks' TB/LNNK, were forwarded to Saeima committees. The amendments are meant to prevent foreign tourists' obscenity and lewdness at the Freedom Monument and stipulate raising the applicable fine to LVL 200, and LVL 500 if the offender is caught doing the same thing again.

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Annual inflation in April at 8.9% from: http://www.leta.lv

RIGA, May 10 (LETA) - Inflation in Latvia keeps rising: in April, compared to April 2006, consumer prices increased 8.9 percent, according to the Central Statistical Bureau's data.

Prices for goods grew 7.5 percent in April, and prices for services 12.7 percent.

Compared to this past March, average consumer price level in April rose 0.9 percent. Prices for both goods and services increased 0.9 percent.

Higher prices for vegetables, fuel and catering services, increased water supply tariffs had the greatest effect on consumer price changes in April.

As reported, last year consumer prices in Latvia grew 6.8 percent: prices for services increased 6.4 percent and prices for goods grew 7.9 percent. Inflation in 2005 totaled 7 percent.

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