Baltic Sea Info Tour/Riga

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Please announce your participation for the infotour or parts of it as soon as possible to tour AT nuclear-heritage.net or at telephone +358 41 7243254. We need your announcements to plan and prepare food and accommodation as well as the actions and events very urgently!

Tour Stop in Riga

Riga is the capital of Latvia and with about 700,000 inhabitants the largest city of the Baltic states. Since 2004, Latvia is member of the European Union. Within a radius of several 100 kilometers Riga is surrounded by the nuclear power plants in Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg in Russia, the closed NPP Ignalina in Lithuania, the Swedish nuclear power plants Oskarshamn and Forsmark and the Finnish NPP Loviisa.

The Baltic Sea Info Tour will stop from July 11-13 in Riga. We will provide a public information event, a public street action and a regional network gathering here. Alternatively to visiting the previous Russian stop in St. Petersburg some participants of the infotour will already be in Riga from July 6-10 to prepare the stop here.

Local contact

Baltic Sea Info Tour Support Group

• phone: +371 29894678
• email: riga.baltic-tour AT nuclear-heritage.net

Travel Schedule of the Riga Stop

• Monday (Jul 5): travelling from the earlier stop in Helsinki to Riga

only those participants who don't join the stop in St. Petersburg

• Tuesday - Friday (Jul 6-10): preparation of the stop in Riga
• Saturday (Jul 10): travelling from the previous stop in St. Petersburg to Riga
• Sunday - Tuesday (Jul 11-13): STOP in Riga
• Wednesday (Jul 14): travelling to the next stop in Belarus or alternatively to Vilnius

Other Information about the Riga Stop

• Network meeting will take place on July 11
• Public event will take place in Ministry of Environment on July 13 at 12 noon.
• Partcipants are going to stay in "Happy Hostel" in Kartupelu iela 8. It's quite close to the city center (~15 min via public transportation). The hostel is located in one of Riga's green zones. No public events will take place there. http://www.hosteli.lv/index.html?l=3&m=1
• HOW TO GET TO THE HOSTEL. Go to the stop near the Central Market (one the market side) and catch trolebus 19 or bus 40. If you use the trolebus, step out in the stop "Kartupelu iela". If you use the bus, step out in the stop "Valdeku iela" and follow the trolebus line until you see a white/grey building. The central entrance is closed so you need to use the one that is in the backyard. In the reception you need to say that you're from "Baltic Sea Info Tour". The hostel's stuff speaks English, Russian and Latvian.
• Public transportation. We use E-ticket system (almost the same as in Helsinki). Prices: ticket for 10 trips - 4.75 ls, ticket for 20 trips - 9.00 ls, 24 hour ticket - 1.90 ls, 3 day ticket - 5.70 ls, 5 day ticket - (for 2 types of public transportation) - 7.00 ls.
• Our currency is Latvian lat. 1 lat is ~ 1.5 euros.
• Media Coverage:
  • Nuclear Baltic Sea Tour events in Riga 11-13 July 2010 - coverage of the infotour in Riga English
  • ПБК: Балтийское море подвержено риску радиации - film about the infotour in Riga (July 14, 2010) Russian