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Latvia

Sovereign state in northeastern Europe

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Dec 7, 2025
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What is Zack Polanski's full birth name and early background?

Zack Polanski was born David Paulden (full forms in reporting vary; some sources give David Stephen Paulden) on 2 November 1982 in Salford, Greater Manchester and changed his name at 18 to reclaim his...

Dec 12, 2025
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What was the global Jewish population by country in 1939 before World War II?

In 1939 the world Jewish population is widely estimated at about 16.6 million, with roughly 9.5 million (57%) living in Europe and about 449,000 in Mandatory Palestine/Israel; Poland alone had about 3...

Nov 13, 2025
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NATO had no right to expand in the Baltic countries

NATO’s enlargement into the Baltic states was a political decision grounded in the Alliance’s treaty principle and the expressed requests of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; no binding international tr...

Dec 13, 2025

Which EU countries have banned RT and what legal grounds did they cite?

The EU imposed an effective bloc-wide ban on broadcasting RT and Sputnik in March 2022, prohibiting EU operators from “broadcasting, facilitating or otherwise contributing to the dissemination” of the...

Nov 22, 2025

Which NATO members support or oppose Ukraine joining and what are their stated reasons?

NATO as an organisation publicly supports Ukraine’s “irreversible path” toward Euro‑Atlantic integration while stopping short of issuing an accession invitation; Allies committed roughly EUR 50bn in 2...

Nov 10, 2025

Which European city has the highest murder rate per capita in 2025?

No authoritative, city-level source in the provided material identifies a single European city with the highest murder rate per capita in 2025. The available analyses present conflicting claims—naming...

Dec 15, 2025

Which EU countries have restricted or limited RT broadcasting rather than outright banning it?

Several sources show the EU moved to ban RT and Sputnik from broadcasting across the bloc in March 2022 and that national regulators and platforms enforced or supplemented those measures; however repo...

Nov 3, 2025

Which EU member states collect fingerprints and facial images for EES and do any temporarily opt out?

The Entry/Exit System (EES) will collect from non‑EU nationals in the majority of Schengen and EU countries when it starts operations on 12 October 2025, with progressive roll‑out completing by April ...

Nov 29, 2025

Which European countries lost the largest proportions of their Jewish populations during the Holocaust?

Poland, the Soviet Union (territories now in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova) and other Eastern European countries suffered the largest proportional losses of their Jewish populations dur...

Jan 17, 2026

How did Deutsche Bank’s lending to Donald Trump and its role in Russian money‑laundering investigations overlap?

Deutsche Bank was one of the few major lenders willing to extend hundreds of millions in credit to Donald Trump and his companies at a time when the bank was simultaneously implicated in large-scale R...

Jan 16, 2026

What do UN and national statistical bureau projections say about Europe’s working‑age population under zero versus positive migration?

United Nations and European statistical projections converge on a stark point: without migration Europe’s working‑age population contracts substantially over coming decades, while positive net migrati...

Dec 5, 2025

What is the minimum age for participating in adult entertainment in Latvia?

Latvian law sets the age of majority at 18 and bars persons under 18 from entering “places offering intimate character entertainment,” and prostitution is restricted to adults (age 18) under current r...

Nov 28, 2025

Former communist states

As of 2025, most mainstream listings identify five countries that constitutionally remain one‑party, Marxist‑Leninist or socialist states commonly described as “communist”: China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos ...

Jan 22, 2026

What are the cheapest countries offering residency or citizenship-by-investment in 2026?

The in 2026 are concentrated in a few budget an programs (notably and some Eastern European routes) and in (CBI) offers that start in the low six figures, while ultra-low-cost outliers for passports e...

Jan 21, 2026

Which NATO countries spend the highest percentage of GDP on defence and how has that changed since 2014?

Since ’s , the countries spending the largest shares of GDP on defence have shifted from a few high outliers to a broader cohort of front-runners: leads at roughly 4.1% of GDP, followed by and at abou...

Jan 21, 2026

who pays most for nato

pays the most for in absolute terms and is one of the largest direct contributors to NATO’s common budgets — roughly 15–16% of the alliance’s annual common budget — but that metric understates how ove...

Jan 9, 2026

Which European leaders have publicly discussed their sexuality and how did it affect their careers?

A small but consequential roster of European leaders have publicly discussed their sexuality — including Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Xavier Bettel, Edgars Rinkēvičs and Ana Brnabić — and in the cases docu...

Jan 8, 2026

Which major UK advertisers publicly refused to advertise on GB News and which later resumed ads?

A broad set of major UK advertisers publicly paused or withdrew campaigns that were running on the newly launched GB News in June 2021 — including IKEA, Kopparberg, Grolsch, Nivea, The Open University...

Jan 6, 2026

Where in the world is twin insest porn legal?

Legal status of porn depicting real siblings (including twins) depends on two separate laws: criminal incest statutes that prohibit sexual activity between close relatives and media/pornography laws t...

Jan 6, 2026

Are there really mass Graves of the jews?

Documentary, archaeological and forensic evidence confirms that numerous mass graves containing Jewish Holocaust victims exist across Eastern and Central Europe: from documented death camps such as So...