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    • Riga City Council The city council is elected in equal, direct and proportional elections by secret ballot for a 4-year term.
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      • Meetings of Riga City Council The councillors of Riga City Council take their decisions at open meetings. The meetings may be attended by any of the city residents, journalists, and officials of the state administration and municipal institutions.
      • Riga City Council committees To provide for the operation of Riga City Council and to prepare the issues for decisions at Riga City Council sessions, Riga City Council establishes regular committees, the composition of which is determined by separate decisions of Riga City Council.
      • Commissions For the performance of specific municipal functions, the Riga City Council sets up commissions and working groups from among the Riga City councillors and residents of the municipality. The need to form such commissions and working groups is determined by specific laws, regulatory acts or by the Council’s decisions; specialists may be invited to work in…
      • Riga City Council Factions A faction may be formed from at least three councillors representing one political party or one list of candidates. Certain factions and/or councillors with no party affiliation may establish councillor blocs.
    • Local Government Administration Municipal administration consists of the central municipal administration, departments of the industries in the municipal competence and departments subordinate to municipal institutions, as well as municipal administration institutions with special status.
      • Deputy Executive Director of Riga City Deputy Executive Director of Riga City performs the duties of Executive Director of Riga City during the absence of the Riga City Executive Director or on his behalf.
      • Executive Director of Riga City Ensures and supervises observance of the Republic of Latvia laws and the implementation of the City Council’s decisions, orders of the Mayor of Riga and the Executive Director of Riga City in the structural units of the Riga City Council and in the executive boards of the Riga City districts and suburbs subordinated to the Executive Director of Riga City,…
      • The Central Administration of the Municipality The Central Administration of the Municipality provides support functions for the implementation of the competences of the municipality, operates in accordance with the regulations approved by the Executive Director of the City of Riga
    • Personal Data Protection Policy of Riga City Municipality Riga City Municipality must collect, process and use certain types of information about individuals and organizations, in order to perform its direct functions and services in the most effective way. Depending on the requested or provided service or the performed function, the processing of personal data may take place within the General Data Protection…
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    • About Riga Riga, the capital of Latvia, was officially founded in 1201. Riga is divided into six administrative districts: Centra, Kurzeme, Ziemeļu, Latgale, Vidzeme and Zemgale districts.
      • History of Riga The Riga City history is more than eight hundred years long, and it has an abundance of dramatic events stored in countless volumes of works and monuments, legends, songs, memoirs and tales.
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      • City Hall The first city council gathered for its meeting in 1226 and it is said that the meeting house was located in the area of Tirgoņu and Šķūņu streets.
      • View into The History of Municipalities The local government of Riga – called town council, city council or otherwise – since the most ancient times has been a relatively independent institution with long-standing traditions, and a significant role in it always has been plaid by its leader. Over the centuries the local government of Riga has mostly been lead by strong personalities with strategic…
    • Riga in the world In order to create Riga as a place where one can enjoy living, working and relaxing, foreign experience offers a lot of help. Cooperation management and adoption of other cities’ experience is being organized and coordinated by the Foreign Affairs Office of the Riga City Council.
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State of emergency to be declared in Latvia on 9 November

In view of the epidemiological assessments of the growing risks of spread of the COVID-19 virus, a national state of emergency will be declared in Latvia, to be in effect between 9 November and 6…
15.10.2020.Covid-19City and Community
Mairis Briedis

Boxer Mairis Briedis named "Rigan of the Year"

20.11.2020. Press releasesIn the City Council
Holokausta muzeja ekspozīcija

Repeatedly re-transfer the municipal property for the needs of Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum

12.11.2020. Press releasesIn the City Council
Rīgas pilsētas būvvaldes ēka

V. Ķirsis: Introducing the “Green Corridor” principle inthe Riga City Construction Board gives a clear signal to investors

12.11.2020. Press releasesIn the City CouncilEntrepreneurship
Rīgas Geto un Latvijas holokausta muzejs

Decides to re-release free of charge usage of the municipal property for the purposes of the Riga Ghetto and the Latvian Holocaust Museum

27.10.2020. Press releasesIn the City Council
Rīgas Geto un Latvijas holokausta muzejs

The Riga City Council has responded to the “Jewish Telegraphic Agency”

22.10.2020. Riga globallyIn the City Council

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Date 14. november – 24. january
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Izstāde "Atceros, tātad esmu"

The exhibition I Remember, Therefore I Am. Unwritten Stories: Women Artists’

From 14 November 2020 to 24 January 2021, the exhibition I Remember, Therefore I Am. Unwritten Stories: Women Artists’ Archives…
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