On 2 March, the President Edgars Rinkēvičs together with the Commander of the National Armed Forces, Major General Kaspars Pudāns, and the Chief of the State Border Guard, General Guntis Pujāts, visited the Latvia–Russia border within the area of responsibility of the State Border Guard’s Viļaka Administration, in the municipalities of Alūksne and Balvi. The President began his visit by familiarising himself on site with the work of the Pededze Border Guard Unit and inspecting the border fence,…
On 2 March, the President Edgars Rinkēvičs together with the Commander of the National Armed Forces, Major General Kaspars Pudāns, and the Chief of the State Border Guard, General Guntis Pujāts, visited the Latvia–Russia border within the area of responsibility of the State Border Guard’s Viļaka Administration, in the municipalities of Alūksne and Balvi. The President began his visit by familiarising himself on site with the work of the Pededze Border Guard Unit and inspecting the border fence, the construction of which along the entire eastern border of the country was completed at the end of 2025. At the Latvia–Russia border section near the parish of Liepna, the President reviewed border infrastructure adapted to marshland terrain. He…
