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"Harmony Centre (Latvian: Saskaņas Centrs, SC; Russian: Центр Cогласия, ЦC)
was a social-democratic political coalition in Latvia.
It consisted of up to five political parties: the National Harmony Party, the
Socialist Party of Latvia, New Centre, the Daugavpils City Party and the Social
Democratic Party. Through a series of mergers they were eventually reduced to
two: Social Democratic Party "Harmony" and the Socialist Party. The alliance
dissolved in 2014."
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Centre
The flag is a horizontal flag with the
logo in the middle, as seen
here
Source:
http://www.rebaltica.lv/en/investigations/money_from_russia/a/606/spreading_democracy_in_latvia_kremlin_style.html
(credits of the picture to: young.lv )
For additional information go to:
Saskanas Centrs (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 25 January 2016
image by Randy Young, 29 July 2016
Also note that there is the flag with Latvian inscription as sell,
incompletely visible at the source photo.
Variant of the logo with inscription in Latvian.
Tomislav Todorović, 25 January 2016
image by Tomislav Todorović and Victor Lomantsov,
29 January 2010
At WEB-pages of "Tribunal" - bulletin of Latvian
National-Bolsheviks <tribunal.narod.ru> (defunct), I have
found proposed flag of Latvia after possible in the future
victory of National Bolshevik party in this country. The
inscription (in Russian): "Flag of Latgalian
National-Bolshevik Republic, 2005". In my image I used
colours closed to Latvian flag. I don't sure in it, because the
image of the flag in the site is "waved". Maybe it
is plain red. National-Bolshevik Party is not Communist
(but they use popular H&S symbols). It is a Neu-Nazi party.
Victor Lomantsov, 27 April 2003
Latgalia is a province in the south-eastern part of Latvia.
Latgalia has a political and cultural history different from that
of the rest of the Latvia which were long under German-Swedish
rule and thus became marked by German-Swedish culture. Latgalia
remained under Polish-Lithuanian rule until 1772, when it was
ceded to the Russian Empire. Today, this part of Latvia is almost
entirely inhabited by ethnic Russians. Oddly enough, only the
tiny minority of ethnic Latvians in this part of Latvia are today
called "Latgalians".
On the same "Nationalist Bolshevik" website there is an
article about a radar station in Latgalia which recently has been
set up by the Latvian Government in order to meet NATO standards.
The article's heading is "Genocide"...
Kristian Söderberg, 28 April 2003
Nazi-Bolsheviks in Latvia is very active but a small movement.
In any occasion they have demonstrations, piquets and other
activities. In organization they are close to analogue Russian
party (National Bolshevik Party).
In all activities they fly Nazi-like flag (red with white ring)
with hammer and sickle. Without any white band.
Latgalia is almost entirely Latvian (Latgalian) excluding
Daugavpils, Ludza and 10 rural parishes. But Daugavpils is 2nd
biggest city in Latvia and greatest in Latgalia and in this case
Latvians and non-Latvians are 50:50. Non-Latvians include very
big minorities of Poles and Belarusians.
Gvido Pētersons, 28 April 2003
This flag may be seen at the current Web site of the bulletin
"Tribunal" (the site which served as Mr Lomantsov's
source is closed), whose homepage: <www.tribunal.times.lv>
contains a screenshot of its earlier version, where the flag is
clearly seen as employing the same shade of red as in the flag of
Latvia.
Tomislav Todorović, 29 January 2010
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 31 July 2017
Latvian Nationalist Club (Latviešu nacionālistu klubs) is a
nationalist youth organization which was founded in 1995 as the Club 415 (Klubs
415), the present name having been adopted in 2008 - or at least, that is
when its online use began, the original name remaining in parallel use online
until the next year [1, 2, 3]. It uses a flag in national colors: a complex
emblem, its central part being a variant of Laima's Cross (Latvian swastika), in
white on red field. The shade of red may sometimes appear lighter than on the
national flag, perhaps due to aging, and the emblem may be displayed as mirrored
[4], which is probably an error, for the correct display was recorded very early
[2].
Sources:
[1] Latvian Nationalist Club website - Organization
info:
http://www.nacionalisti.lv/teksti/2/latviesu-nacionalistu-klubs/
[2]
Latvian Nationalist Club website - Organization info - saved on 2008-01-19
(first save):
http://nacionalisti.lv:80/teksti/2/Latviešu nacionālistu klubs/
[3] Club
415 website home page at Internet Archive - saved on 2009-01-16 (last save):
http://klubs415.lv:80/
[4] Latvian Nationalist Club website - Photo
gallery from 2010:
http://www.nacionalisti.lv/galerija/266/lacplesa-dienas-lapu-gajiens-riga-(2010)/
Tomislav
Todorovic, 31 July 2017
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 21 January 2025
There is a Scandinavian-cross version of the Latvian flag.
The version has been created by a non-governmental organisation
and later a political party, For the National Independence of
Latvia, in the early 1990's. Nordic ideas were among those
vividly discussed in the society. The discussion still continues,
yet is not getting much attention in the media. Ratio 19:26 with
the cross shifted to the left.
Ree Fischer, 4 December 2005
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 31 July 2017
National Alliance "All For Latvia!" – "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM"
(Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība "Visu Latvijai!"—"Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK"),
usually shortened to National Alliance, is a right-wing political party in
Latvia. It was founded in 2010 as the electoral alliance of the parties All for
Latvia! (Latvian: Visu Latvijai!) and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM (Latvian:
Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK). In 2011, the two parties have merged into one, under
the name previously used by the alliance; the process of merger was declared
completed in 2013. The unified party has participated in every government of
Latvia since 2011. Regarding the international affiliation, it is a member of
the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe.
Just like the
party name has remained the combination of names of both founding parties, its
logo was created by simple joining of the two parties' logos, both of which
employ national colors - white and dark red. However, no new flag was has been
adopted so far; instead, the flags of the founding parties are used together,
usually with the national flag placed between them.
Sources:
[1]
National Alliance at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_(Latvia)
[2] National
Alliance website - Photo gallery from the 3rd party Congress on 2013-12-10:
http://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/gallery/nacionalas-apvienibas-3-kongress-foto/
[3] National Alliance website - News report from 2016-10-24:
http://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/aktualitate/nacionala-apvieniba-aicina-ieviest-vienadas-tiesibas-pabalstu-sanemsana/
[4] National Alliance website - Photo gallery from the party program
presentation in Riga on 2017-04-10:
http://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/gallery/na-prezente-rigas-pasvaldibas-velesanu-programmu/
[5] Puaro online magazine - News report from 2016-12-10:
http://puaro.lv/politika/nacionala-apvieniba-veicinasot-krievvalodigo-izcelosanu-nav-skaidrs-tikai-ka/
[6] Liepajniekiem.lv website - News report from 2017-03-07:
https://www.liepajniekiem.lv/zinas/sabiedriba/nacionala-apvieniba-par-meru-liepaja-virza-dianu-svanbergu-198739
For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM (Latvian: Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK) was
founded in 1997 by fusion of For Fatherland and Freedom (Latvian: Tēvzemei un
Brīvībai), founded itself in 1993 by fusion of two smaller parties, and Latvian
National Independence Movement (LNIM; Latvian: Latvijas Nacionālās Neatkarības
Kustība, LNNK), founded in 1988. The party has participated in the government of
Latvia 1995-2004 and 2006-2010. In 2011, it has merged with the All for Latvia!
into the present-day National Alliance.
The party flag was charged with
the emblem in national colors and the party name inscribed beneath it in two
rows in black, all on gold field. The emblem, an elaborate form of swastika, is
called Laima's Cross (Latvian: Laimas krusts), after a high ranking goddess of
Dievturība, a Latvian neo-pagan religion, whose symbol is swastika in varying
forms. This particular form of Laima's Cross is modeled after many similar ones
which appear in Latvian folk art, mainly as embroidery, as is shown by numerous
photos available online. After the 2011 merger, the flag was kept in use by the
National Alliance.
[1] For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Fatherland_and_Freedom/LNNK
[2] For
Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM website - About the party:
http://www.tb.lv/kas-mes-esam
[3] Dievturība community website - Emblems of deities:
http://www.dievturi.org/latviesuraksti.htm
[4] National Alliance website
- Photo gallery from the 3rd party Congress on 2013-12-10:
http://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/gallery/nacionalas-apvienibas-3-kongress-foto/
[5] Liepajniekiem.lv website - News report from 2017-03-07:
https://www.liepajniekiem.lv/zinas/sabiedriba/nacionala-apvieniba-par-meru-liepaja-virza-dianu-svanbergu-198739
Image of described flag; derived from the SVG image of
party emblem, which is available for free download from Free Vector website:
http://freevector.co/logos-vector/tevzemei-un-brivibai-logo-vector.html
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 31 July 2017
All For Latvia! (Latvian: Visu Latvijai!) was
founded as a political youth organization in 2000 and transformed into the
political party in 2006. In 2011, it has merged with the For Fatherland and
Freedom/LNIM into the present-day National Alliance.
The party emblem
was a dark red diamond, charged with the initials VL above the symbol called
Jumis, all in white. The symbol is used to represent the same-named god of
Dievturība, a Latvian neo-pagan religion. On the flag, the symbol appeared
with a white fimbriation on dark red field, accompanied with the full party
name in white, spelled, as was frequently done, without the exclamation mark.
The shade of red was intended to be the same as in the national flag,
although it frequently appears lighter in currently available photos, which
might be due to aging. After the 2011 merger, the flag was kept in use by the
National Alliance.
[1] All For Latvia! at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_for_Latvia!
[2] All For Latvia!
website at Internet Archive Party Statute (in DOC format, saved on
2011-11-06):
http://web.archive.org/web/20081106155421/http://www.visulatvijai.lv/faili/VL/dokumenti/VL_Statuti.doc
[3] Dievturība community website - Emblems of deities:
http://www.dievturi.org/latviesuraksti.htm
[4] National Alliance
website - Photo gallery from the 3rd party Congress on 2013-12-10:
http://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/gallery/nacionalas-apvienibas-3-kongress-foto/
[5] National Alliance website - News report from 2016-10-24:
http://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/aktualitate/nacionala-apvieniba-aicina-ieviest-vienadas-tiesibas-pabalstu-sanemsana/
[6] Liepajniekiem.lv website - News report from 2017-03-07:
https://www.liepajniekiem.lv/zinas/sabiedriba/nacionala-apvieniba-par-meru-liepaja-virza-dianu-svanbergu-198739
Tomislav Todorovic, 31 July 2018
image by Christina Janke, 25 September 2006 and Tomislav Todorović,
13 June 2010
Image of real flag at <latvia.nb-info.org>
Christina Janke, 25 September 2006
This image is a modification of those was created by Christina Janke. The
photo of this flag can be seen at the current
party website and it served as
the model for the image modification.
Tomislav Todorović, 13 June 2010
Variants of flag
image by Tomislav Todorović, 13 June 2010
A variant of this flag with both the disc
and the hand grenade larger and the aspect ratio about 3:5 was seen at a
rally in Riga on 2009-02-16. The disc seems to be set off-centre, but it is difficult to tell if it was
meant to be so or it was just the imprecise home-making. (This is why the disc
in the attached image is centred.)
Tomislav Todorović, 13 June 2010
image by Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2010
image by Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2010
The flags with the same basic design, but with black field, were seen at the
rally in Riga on 2009-05-25.
They had the aspect ratio of either 2:3 or 1:2.
Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2010
image by Tomislav Todorović, 30 April 2012
What follows is the update to my earlier contribution:
The red flag charged with the hand grenade on a white disk is sometimes used
with aspect ratio 1:1. Such
flags were seen in
Riga, on 2005-05-07, during protests against the visit of U.S. President George
W. Bush to Latvia. The flags were used together with those with aspect ratio
3:5. This version of flag is created as the modification of the image above.
Tomislav Todorović, 30 April 2012
image from <www.nss.lv>
It seems this is some ultra-nationalist party. However, they
have a flag at <www.nss.lv>.
Valentin Poposki, 30 July 2006
National Force Union (Nacionālā Spēka Savienība) was founded in 2003 by
some of the former members of Helsinki-86, the oldest anti-Communist opposition
group in Soviet Latvia [1, 2]. The party was member of European National Front,
a grouping of ultra-rightist parties in the countries of European Union [1]. In
2008, the party disbanded itself, after having failed to apply for the
re-registration, which was a mandatory element of the then political reforms
[2]. Part of the members subsequently joined the Fatherland Union (Tēvzemes
savienība), a party with similar orientation, creating the Union of
National Forces of Fatherland (Tēvzemes
nacionālo spēku
savienība), which would be renamed into the Fatherland Heritage (Tēvzemes
mantojums) in 2012 [1, 2, 3]. The new party inherited the emblem from the
National Force Union [3].
Sources:
[1] National Force Union at
Wikipedia (in English):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Power_Unity
[2] National Force
Union at Wikipedia (in Latvian):
https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacion%C4%81l%C4%81_Sp%C4%93ka_Savien%C4%ABba
[3] National Heritage at Wikipedia (in Latvian):
https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%93vzemes_mantojums
Tomislav Todorovic. 31 July 2017
The flag is derived from the national flag by adding the party emblem over
all, a white diamond charged with four small patterns of national flag, arranged
so as to resemble the swastika ("Laima's Cross"). All of this symbolizes the
unity and indivisibility of the country, as well as its four historic regions -
Kurzeme, Vidzeme, Zemgale and Latgale.
Source:
National Force Union
website at Internet Archive - Party flag (saved on 2006-11-04):
http://www.nss.lv/simbols.php
Tomislav Todorovic, 5 August 2017
image by Tomislav Todorovic. 31 July 2017
National Union "Justice" (Nacionālā Savienība "Taisnīgums") is an ultra-rightist party which was founded in 2014 [1], as the successor of Fatherland Heritage (Tēvzemes mantojums), whose emblem it uses [2]. The emblem, a white diamond charged with four rectangles in colours of the national flag of Latvia and arranged in a swastika-like pattern, was originally used by the National Force Union [3, 4]. On the party flag, however, it is no longer placed over the national flag pattern, but on a plain red field [5, 6, 7, 8]. The fact that the online photo gallery of the party includes the photos from 2011 [5] and 2013 [6], created before its founding date [1], is what reveals it as the successor of National Heritage, also revealing that the earlier party had used the same flag.
Sources:
[1] National Union "Justice" at
Facebook - About:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Taisnigums/about/?ref=page_internal
[2] National Heritage at Wikipedia (in Latvian):
https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%93vzemes_mantojums
[3] National
Force Union at Wikipedia (in English):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Power_Unity
[4] National Force Union at Wikipedia (in Latvian):
https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/
[5] National Union "Justice" at Facebook - Photos from 2011:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Taisnigums
[6] National Union "Justice" at Facebook - Photos from 2013-10-18:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Taisnigums
[7] National Union "Justice" at Facebook - Photo from 2016-08-16:
https://www.facebook.com/Taisnigums
[8] National Union "Justice" at Facebook - Photos from 2016-12-17:
https://www.facebook.com/Taisnigums
Tomislav Todorovic. 31
July 2017
image by
Tomislav Todorović, 23 August 2018
Russian Union of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Krievu savienība; LKS;
Russian: Русский союз Латвии, РСЛ) is the party which advocates the rights of
Russian minority in Latvia. It was founded in 2007 under the name For Human
Rights in a United Latvia (ForHRUL; Latvian: Par cilvēka tiesībām
vienotā Latvijā, PCTVL; Russian: За права человека в единой Латвии, ЗаПЧЕЛ)
as the successor of same-named electoral alliance which was founded in 1998. The
present name of the party was adopted in 2014. On the level of European Union,
it is member of European Free Alliance, an Europarty which gathers regionalist
political parties from various EU member countries.
Source:
Russian
Union of Latvia at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Russian_Union
The flag of the
Russian Union of Latvia is in Russian national colors: a very wide white
east-west diagonal stripe between two triangular panels, blue a the top and red
at the bottom. In center of white field, the party logo is placed, which
consists of two modified right triangles, their hypotenuses replaced with
elliptical arcs; the top one is red and bears the Latvian abbreviation LKS,
while the bottom one is blue and bears the Russian abbreviation РСЛ; both
inscriptions are in white.
The image of the flag is derived from the
image of party logo from Wikimedia Commons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latvian_Russian_Union_logo.png
Sources:
[1] Russian Union of Latvia website - Photo gallery from the rally
on 2018-05-01:
http://rusojuz.lv/ru/ourevents/26324-pervomaj--den-borbi-fotoreportazh/
[2] Russian Union of Latvia at Facebook - Photo album from rally on 2018-05-01:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/rusojuz/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1667902946660219
[3] Russian Union of Latvia website - Photo gallery from the rally on
2018-06-02:
http://rusojuz.lv/ru/ourevents//26348-fotoreportazh-s-mitinga-2-ijunja-posvjaschennogo-mezhdunarodnomu-dnju-zaschiti-detej/
[4] Russian Union of Latvia website - Photo gallery from the meeting at
party headquarters on 2018-06-30:
http://rusojuz.lv/ru/ourevents/26365-pravlenie-rsl-30-ijunja/
[5]
Russian Union of Latvia website - Photo gallery from the press conference on
2018-07-02:
http://rusojuz.lv/ru/ourevents/26371-fotogalereja-s-presskonferencii-liderov-spiska-rsl-2-ijulja-2018-goda/
Tomislav Todorović, 23 August 2018
image by
Tomislav Todorović, 23 August 2018
Christian Democratic Union (/Kristigi demokratiska savieniba; KDS/) is
a small centre-right party. It was founded in 1991. During the 1990's
and 2000's, it was represented in the Saeima (parliament) and
participated in several governments, but has failed to gain elected
representation in later years. The flag of KDS is white with large logo of the party. The logo is the
monogram KDS in dark red, combined with a dark yellow (close to
orange) shape which resembles a waving flag, underlined in the same
yellow color, with the full name of the party inscribed below in
black. The ratio is about 3:5.
Tomislav Todorović, 21 October 2021
![logo](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Центр_согласия#/media/File:"Центр_Согласия"_логотип.gif){kind=link}
