Una Bergmane
@unabergmane
Historian working on Soviet collapse. Author of "Politics of Uncertainty: the United States, the Baltic Question and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." (OUP, 2023) Researcher at the University of Helsinki🇫🇮 From Latvia 🇱🇻🇪🇺
Un kāda noskaņa valda jūsu profesionālajās aprindās? Te, lūk, piemērs no vēsturnieku vides, vēsturniece Inese Dreimane. Par laimi šoreiz nevienam nesola sērskābi, jo toreiz tomēr skaidrošanās ar policiju sanāca.
Saņēmu atbildi uz nosūtīto iesniegumu, bet ne atbildes uz uzdotajiem jautājumiem. Kā izrādās nenotikusī sēde tikusi sasaukta saistībā 2021 gadā Valsts kontroles publiskotu revīziju...
Esmu nosūtījusi iesniegumu Publisko izdevumu un revīzijas komisijas priekšsēdētājam, lūdzot skaidrojumu saistībā ar izskanējušo informāciju, kas rada bažas par akadēmiskās brīvības apdraudējumu Latvijā.
Very alarming turn of events in Latvia: on 22 July, MPs are dragging three state-funded research projects in front of a spending committee, in an attempt to gain political points before the election by attacking research on gender, care and heteronormativity.
Few things are more beautiful than clouded May days in Helsinki. And the whole city smells like lilac today.
Latvia celebrates 106 years since the first session of its Constitutional Assembly. Six of the newly elected deputies were women. Largest fraction: the Social Democrats (in the photo). The constitution (Satversme) they drafted (inspired by Weimar Germany) is still in force today.
Warszawa is an amazing city. And there is an amazing exhibition at the the Museum of Modern Art "the woman question" bringing together female artists from various parts of the world. Including a fantastic line-up of Polish and Ukrainian painters.
12 years ago, I went to my first pro-Ukraine protest. It was in Paris, and I was 28 years old.
Members of the Kyrgyzstan Democratic Movement protesting against Soviet use of force in the Baltic states, January 21, 1991. www.rferl.org/a/2341465.html
Bluesky draugi, esat laipni aicināti ņemt dalību šajā priecīgajā notikumā!
According to the police, around 10,000 people took to the streets of Riga tonight to protest against the (so far unsuccessful) attempts to withdraw Latvia from the Istanbul Convention.
Some good news - Latvia REMAINS a party to the Istanbul Convention. For now. Facing unprecedented civil society mobilisation, and after the president refused to sign the withdrawal law, the parliament voted to postpone the decision on the Istanbul Convention until after the October 2026 elections.
After receiving a petition signed by more than 62,000 citizens President Edgars Rinkēvičs has exercised his constitutional right to return the law on Latvia’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention to the Parliament for reconsideration. Big protests in support of Convention planned on Nov 6.
More than 50,000 people have signed the petition urging President Rinkēvičs @edgarsrinkevics.bsky.social not to sign the law on Latvia's withdrawal from Istanbul Convention. It seems our populists politicians have completely misunderstood the society they claim to represent and try to manipulate
Kūtriem un Iesalniekiem būs jāsāk pārdomāt sava no Rosļikova samācītā "naš boļše" retorika.
On the left: protests in Riga against the Istanbul Convention On the right: protests in Riga in support of the Istanbul Convention
In Latvia, the opposition - right-wing, Russian speakers, populists - have united to push for withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. They are backed by one of the governing coalition parties, the Farmers and Greens Union. Large civil society protests are expected tonight in Riga against the move.
Vai kāds pazīst kādu ZZS vēlētāju? Kā viņiem iet? Tic pasakām par dženderiem, jo atmiņa par īsu, lai atcerētos, ka ZZS konvenciju ratificēja? Saprot, kas notiek, un domā, ka veči labi ģēlas bīda? Neliekas ne zinis un uz vēlēšanām nāks kā no jauna dzimuši?