If you work as a state political leader, you must know a foreign language at an excellent level.
From@MareksMillersBut where is the problem? Why is it considered humiliating? Where is it written that a Latvian must have perfect English pronunciation?
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At today’s press conference with Sweden’s Foreign Minister @MariaStenergard, I underlined how much Sweden’s contribution to our security means to Latvia. “Having you in @NATO is indeed very special.” 🇱🇻🇸🇪 Full remarks: https://t.co/6rLa17nFiY https://t.co/lAV51ixFZu
From@JanisVoinsThat Sprūds called Ukraine a project – was that AI? That Sprūds lied about drones – misunderstood information? That Sprūds forgot to buy ammunition – the supplier's fault? Unfortunately, you can't ask that in the comments – populists don't like to answer... https://t.co/0AyOVnd78c
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One more thing about the conclusions after the storm. The services are working as hard as they can, well done, but they are people with boots on the ground, normal people. But @Sadalestikls' information system has gone to NifNuf (two piglets). That was thought up in offices by highly paid managers. How was it before? Well, for example, in my area in Carnikava you could call the ST service, or go there, the masters could roughly explain what and how. How long to wait. They have work schedules, they know, dispatchers know. Then a person knows - need to buy water, maybe book a hotel, or go to relatives with family if you have to wait a week. Wait as long as you wait, but at least tell me, even very roughly. But now the electricity system has introduced an e-health analog (works on avos). For example, I found 'ends' through acquaintances, found out when what was planned. The masters know, the bosses know how serious the accident is, they can predict something. But officially there's nowhere to call now. Only 'by pull'. The interactive map showed me a meaningless 'until work is completed'. A day, a week, a month? At least tell me if days are planned, not hours? After a day and a half they connected my electricity. But today I get a few calls, they curse. I need to know, they say. The closer to the government, the crisis center. But I really don't know. One person says the interactive map since yesterday shows - until 23. But today another day has passed. And nothing, e-health shows 23:00, but in what year, month? Not said, not lied. Maybe we go back to manual vote counting, like in elections? Why some impersonal e-health in energy, if the management are nifnufs, usually pink piglets? 🐷
From@LieneCipuleAs long as I am in office, I will consider it my duty to call on society to act responsibly in crises! This approach has been proven to be the most important stage in overcoming crises in countries such as Finland and Israel, which are regarded as examples of crisis preparedness! Calling such behavior "whining" on the part of a journalist is irresponsible and harmful, reducing people's motivation to act, prepare and engage. State resilience begins not in the crisis headquarters, but in every household! Anita Daukšte: When "apocalypse" sets in even after a warning. Lessons from the storm https://t.co/DVdanONUw2
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From@ArlietasForeign Minister @Braze_Baiba: 💬 In a rapidly changing world, true allies such as Sweden and Latvia can rely on each other 🇸🇪🇱🇻 Thank you @MariaStenergard for your leadership. Our partnership is becoming ever stronger in defense, trade, and innovation. We are united by values, and we defend them together.
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https://t.co/tvAc0SWRlm - you can also read the article here
From@te_anastasijaWhen in the interview I realized that there is no really rational explanation why @Progresivie stayed in the government, which, as @suvajevs agreed, works poorly and moreover ignores the party's opinion, I did not expect that we would come to the argument that the government must be protected from Šlesers. https://t.co/QqtHlPul0q
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When in the interview I realized that there is no really rational explanation why @Progresivie stayed in the government, which, as @suvajevs agreed, works poorly and moreover ignores the party's opinion, I did not expect that we would come to the argument that the government must be protected from Šlesers. https://t.co/QqtHlPul0q
It is always a pleasure to meet people who, working in complex sectors, implement significant projects. Ivars Eglītis with the Kuldīga doctoral project takes a big step forward in the development of private healthcare in the region. https://t.co/byYFpAEd1D
Day No. 60 (TUESDAY) — cybersecurity, border, and order in state administration Tuesday started immediately with serious questions: 🛡️ Extraordinary meeting on cybersecurity ➖️ CSDD data security incident. I have already published a separate video about this, so I won't repeat it all. 🔗Links: [https://t.co/AXkr1kIlhC] 🏛️ Cabinet of Ministers meeting ➖️ VILKATIS — data on pushed-back border crossers shows that the operation is working. A migrant transporter was also detained at the time of committing the crime. ➖️ The second tunnel has been discovered on the border. For comparison — in Lithuania, a total of 7 tunnels have been discovered. This again shows with what methods they are trying to test and circumvent our border security. ➖️ We also advanced a draft law on the use of land for national defense needs, so that in acute and nationally important moments we could act quickly rather than get stuck in procedures. 👥 Prime Minister's office meeting and work planning ➖️ NGO Memorandum Council — the State Chancellery has prepared changes to the procedure. Payment for Council members for participation in meetings at the ministerial table will be abolished. I believe that participation in dialogue with the government cannot in itself become a paid position. ➖️ In the re-announced competition for the Director of the State Chancellery, where requirements were normalized and made more reasonable, 18 applications have already been received. In the previous competition there were only 6. That is already a good signal. I hope that among the candidates there will be capable people with the ambition not just to administer the system, but to help change it. 💪🇱🇻 I congratulate my office colleague and advisor @Bolevics on obtaining the honorary family status of 3 children – the birth of a daughter!!! We in Latvia need large, strong families. Health to the mother and children.
From@AndrisKulbergs🚨 CSDD CYBERATTACK — NEGLIGENCE WITH REAL CONSEQUENCES FOR STATE SECURITY — Today about the @CSDD_LV cyberattack, its consequences, and what must be done now. The CSDD board and council have been dismissed. Temporary management will be appointed instead, while competitions for the permanent board and council are started immediately. 🔴 WHAT HAPPENED? ➖️ On August 8 at about 3:00 AM, from Friday to Saturday, an attacker broke into the CSDD system. ➖️ The breach occurred through the CSDD MEDICAL platform, which about 200 doctors use to enter medical certificates for vehicle drivers. ➖️ The attacker operated undisturbed through the system on Saturday and Sunday. ➖️ On Sunday evening, a large-scale data download occurred. ➖️ CSDD only learned of the suspicious activity on Monday. ➖️ On Wednesday, it was established that data theft had occurred. ➖️ The Prime Minister was only informed on Wednesday at 5:00 PM. ❗ HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL? CSDD should have had secure multi-factor authentication. But CSDD MEDICAL access was possible only with a regular username and password. CSDD had every opportunity to implement top-level cybersecurity: 💶 there were financial resources; 💻 there was IT capacity; 🧠 there were knowledge and specialists. Yet self-assurance, negligence, and arrogance toward cybersecurity risks have led to one of the most serious data leaks in state possession. It threatens not only people's privacy but also the security of citizens, businesses, and the state. 📂 WHAT DATA HAS LEAKED? A very large volume of data is concerned: ➖️ data of approximately 1.3 million private individuals; ➖️ data of approximately 200,000 companies; ➖️ payment information for the period from 2008 to 2026; ➖️ first name, surname, or company name; ➖️ personal code or company registration number; ➖️ declared address; ➖️ vehicle state registration number. I do not understand why CSDD needed to store payment data since 2008 on its servers at all, if the regulatory acts do not require such storage. 🛡️ WARNINGS WERE THERE. THEY WERE NOT USED. CSDD had a contract with TET for server and connection cybersecurity, but not for the protection of CSDD's own application and software. Moreover. https://t.co/Y2dCsXsES5 had already offered from January to April 2026 to install its sensors that automatically identify suspicious anomalies in the network. The CERT measure is free. CSDD refused it. ⚖️ A submission has been filed with the prosecutor's office for possible negligence or wrongdoing. Law enforcement authorities must now establish the responsibility of each official. ✅ WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? I have issued a Prime Minister's resolution with 12 specific tasks for ministries and state institutions. Key ones: ➖️ CSDD must inform every affected person and company, indicating what specific data has leaked. ➖️ https://t.co/Y2dCsXsES5 sensors must be mandatorily installed in all critically important state systems so that anomalies are identified in a timely manner, not several days after the breach. ➖️ All critical infrastructure and sensitive data institutions must carry out full-scale intrusion simulations, i.e., penetration tests, to really test system resilience and find weaknesses before an attacker does. ➖️ Instructed to assess the possibility of restricting the freely accessible e-CSDD vehicle number plate check tool. ➖️ Instructed to assess how quickly state systems can abandon the use of the personal code as a username, moving to a more secure identification solution. ➖️ https://t.co/Y2dCsXsES5 has submitted a list of other state institutions that similarly refused the proposed cybersecurity measures. Next week we will go through this list. And the questions will be unpleasant. ⚠️ A MUCH GREATER STATE SECURITY RISK — declarations of officials. Individually, this data is already sensitive. But in combination with other publicly available state databases, it becomes a very effective profiling tool. The declaration information of officials in the VID system is currently freely viewable without user identification. In the era of artificial intelligence, the collection, structuring, and linking of huge amounts of data takes not months, but minutes. This means that such data can be systematically collected and regularly updated also by the services of Russia, Belarus, North Korea, or other countries. By combining CSDD's stolen data with publicly available declarations and other databases, it is possible to profile: 👮 police officers; 🪖 soldiers; 🛂 border guards; 🕵️ security service employees; 🏛️ officials and their families. This is already a national security issue. Declarations must remain accessible to the public, but I see no justification for them being mass-copied anonymously. The solution can be very simple — the information remains public, but access is after authentication, for example, with one's profile at https://t.co/2abj1S4l9U. 🌲 AND I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THE @valstsmezi CYBERATTACK. From the Minister of Agriculture @ArmandsKrauze I expect a concrete answer: who in Latvian State Forests was responsible for the systematic failure to update server software, which allowed the attacker to exploit vulnerabilities? Next week I want on the table: ➖️ the name and surname of the responsible official; ➖️ an explanation of how this was allowed; ➖️ information on what consequences and responsibility will follow. 🇱🇻 WE DO NOT LIVE IN A PEACETIME DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT. Latvia lives under constant hybrid threat conditions. Next to us are aggressor states that use all possible methods against our country. At the same time, artificial intelligence has made the preparation, automation, and data processing of cyberattacks much easier. Therefore, the attitude — “surely nothing will happen to us” — is no longer acceptable in public administration. Cybersecurity is not a technical matter for the IT department. It is state security. ❓ AND I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NCC NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CENTRE. I am interested in how it can be that the National Cybersecurity Centre, which had about 20 million euros in 2025 and about 28 million euros in 2026, has not been able to achieve significantly higher resilience of state systems against such attacks? That is very serious funding. About half of the public television and radio media budget. With such funding, there must also be a measurable result: ✅ how many institutions have actually been tested; ✅ how many vulnerabilities have been eliminated; ✅ in how many systems multi-factor authentication has been introduced; ✅ in how many institutions have https://t.co/Y2dCsXsES5 sensors been installed; ✅ how many real cyberattack simulation tests have been conducted; ✅ and who is responsible if known risks remain unaddressed for years. I have questions. And I expect very concrete answers. Cybersecurity cannot be fixed with presentations, strategies, and reports.
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📍 The need to fix the procurement system so that we don't overpay for it; 📍 The municipal financial equalization model; 📍 Preparation for the next EU funds planning period. Today a valuable conversation about this with the chair of Kuldīga Municipality Council, Inese Astaševska https://t.co/uDu1lyP2It
From@JanisVoinsAbout Sprūds calling Ukraine a project – was that AI? About Sprūds lying about drones – misunderstood information? About Sprūds forgetting to buy shells – the supplier's fault? Unfortunately, you can't ask in the comments – populists don't like to answer... https://t.co/0AyOVnd78c
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From@attistibai🎾 Why vote in elections? - Latvijas attīstībai - 11th list https://t.co/rsnb4iAMmg
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Investments and exports are the topic at the pre-election discussion taking place in Kuldīga by @LTRK_uznemeji. Investments and exports are not just today's question - they are the foundation for the country's economic development and the well-being of its people.
🎾 Why vote in elections? - Latvijas attīstībai - 11th list https://t.co/rsnb4iAMmg
The communication crisis after the storm would be a very good reason to review the government's plans regarding the planned deal in the telecommunications sector. Paying half a billion for something that only lasts two hours without electricity would be unwise.
Glory to heroes! I express my condolences to relatives and friends. https://t.co/67C4z9cnw3
From@ltvzinasIn Ukraine, on the Kharkiv front, on August 19, Latvian volunteer soldier Vitālijs Šampiņš, callsign "Vilks", was killed. https://t.co/RM7KBrSaZ2
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I express my deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of our 🇱🇻 volunteer soldier Vitālijs Šampiņš "Vilks", who died heroically defending 🇺🇦 against the attack of the 🇷🇺 occupiers. His plaque will be added next to the other 🇱🇻 Latvians, the other Vitālijs Smirnovs, Edgars Platonovs, Ņikita Sladzevskis, Antons Ģiedraitis and Maksims Čugunovs, where, remembering them, I laid flowers on Saturday. The beautiful monument is located at the GRU entrance in Kyiv.
From@ltvzinasIn Ukraine, on the Kharkiv front, on August 19, Latvian volunteer soldier Vitālijs Šampiņš, call sign "Vilks", was killed. https://t.co/RM7KBrSaZ2
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@maris_spruds 😁 https://t.co/JHJ9CFcLpy
From@maris_sprudsAny press secretary is rightly considered his right hand. Here everything is appropriate - Unity's press secretary Anita Brauna sits at the right hand of her actual boss - Evika Siliņa, surrounded by other Unity cadres. https://t.co/W8AJiZK2a7
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From@karlis_serzantsTaking responsibility is a funny thing - when the salary exceeds 5 thousand, immunity automatically kicks in and only a kick in the backside can overcome it. This is regularly demonstrated to us by members of all sorts of boards and councils...
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