Your Excellency, Mr President! Honourable Madam Karis! Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen! I am truly delighted to be with you here tonight. At your Rose Garden. Thank you for the sincere and warm hospitality. Thank you for this historic visit. This is the first time a Latvian president has visited the Ruhnu island. I must say I’m not the first traveller from Latvia to visit Ruhnu Island. It was exactly 20 years ago that a bear from Latvia rode a block of ice to Ruhnu. There was even a cartoon…
Your Excellency, Mr President! Honourable Madam Karis! Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen! I am truly delighted to be with you here tonight. At your Rose Garden. Thank you for the sincere and warm hospitality. Thank you for this historic visit. This is the first time a Latvian president has visited the Ruhnu island. I must say I’m not the first traveller from Latvia to visit Ruhnu Island. It was exactly 20 years ago that a bear from Latvia rode a block of ice to Ruhnu. There was even a cartoon made after that titled “The bear is coming” (KARU TULEB!). Laima chocolate factory even made a chocolate bear to make up for the troubles. Bears have lately become a topic of many conversations in Latvia. We have a slight suspicion that at least…
