Kauguri, Latvia agency. It is also home to the football club FK Jūrmala, playing in the Virsliga. Kauguri bathing area received the National Bathing Area Quality Certificate acknowledging it conformity with several International Blue Flag Certification criteria. It takes about 40 minutes to get to Kauguri from Riga (the capital city of Latvia) by car, about 50 minutes by train and about an hour by bus. Kauguri, Latvia Kauguri is a residential area in the western part of Jūrmala, a city in Latvia. It is estimated that the population is approximately one-half of Jūrmala's population, so it is more than 20,000. As
Capital punishment in Latvia death sentence to a term of imprisonment. Latvia continued to hand down death sentences until 1998. On April 15, 1999 the death penalty in peacetime was abolished by ratifying Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights. In 2002, Latvia signed Protocol No. 13 to ECHR, concerning the abolition of the death penalty under all circumstances. The law on the ratification of Protocol 13 was adopted on 13 October 2011 and the protocol was ratified on 26 January 2012. Protocol 13 was entered into force on 1 May 2012. Latvia was the last European Union country to retain