President of Latvia Egils Levits will host a virtual conference ‘Battle of Latvia. Researching and remembering the national resistance movement’ to honour the national resistance

Agenda of the e-conference includes an opening speech by the President of Latvia and discussion between the historians, with Dr. hist. Uldis Neiburgs, researcher at University of Latvia National History Institute (ULNHI), Mag. hist. Zigmārs Turčinskis, researcher at ULNHI, and Gints Zelmenis, senior expert of the National Archives and author of ‘National resistance movement in Latvia: 1959-1986’, as the invited speakers. Viewers will also be offered special video interviews from locations of historic events like Cēsis, Īle Bunker, Renda National Resistance Movement Museum, National Resistance Movement Memorial in Stompaki Marsh. Conference will be moderated by Dr. sc. com. Mārtiņš Kaprāns, researcher at University of Latvia Institute of Philosophy and Sociology. You can follow the conference live on www.president.lv, news portal www.delfi.lv and President’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts/channels.