Diena is a Latvian language

Latvian language

Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...

 national daily newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 in Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

, published since 23 November 1990. Since privatisation in 1993, Diena was owned by Swedish media group Bonnier, 2009 AS

Joint stock company

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 Diena together with its sister business daily Dienas Bizness was sold to investor group owned by Jonathan and David Rowland. The Latvian businessman Viesturs Koziols

Viesturs Koziols

Viesturs Koziols is a Latvian real estate developer, media and sports entrepreneur, photographer, patron of arts, political and public figure.- Career :...

 6 August 2010 acquired a 51% stake in the joint-stock company Diena..

In 2002, the publisher was fined for articles published in 1998 and criticizing then-minister for economy L. Strujevics. In 2007, the European Court of Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights

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 held the fine to be in violation of freedom of expression.

Diena had 18,277 subscribers in December 2009, down from 26,866 in February 2009, and 41,471 in April 2000. It shifted from berliner

Berliner (format)

Berliner, or "midi", is a newspaper format with pages normally measuring about . The Berliner format is slightly taller and marginally wider than the tabloid/compact format; and is both narrower and shorter than the broadsheet format....

 to compact

Compact (newspaper)

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 format in 2007. The newspaper's Russian language

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

edition was discontinued in 2000.