Re:Baltica
Description
Re:Baltica is a non-profit organization that describes itself as the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism. It was founded in August 2011 and is based in Riga, Latvia. It produces long-term, in-depth investigative reporting on socially important issues across the Baltic region, including corruption, crime, finances, entrepreneurship, health, human rights and disinformation.
Its journalism aims to encourage transparency and reform. Its investigations have been cited by international outlets such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, Financial Times and the BBC. Rather than building its own large audience, Re:Baltica distributes its investigations through other media outlets in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and beyond. It makes its work freely available and invites other newsrooms to republish it, asking only to be credited.
Through its fact-checking and social media research hub, Re:Check, it runs a media literacy program taught in schools. It also offers training on investigative journalism and news management, in collaboration with organizations such as the OSCE, UNESCO and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Staff also work as media experts in international election observation missions.
The organization is run by a small team of journalists, editors and researchers. It is supported by volunteers including an illustrator, a designer and a data specialist, and overseen by a board of journalists and media professionals. It is funded by a mix of donations, grants and self-earned income. In 2024 its total revenue was 480,236 euros, made up of small individual and institutional donations, competitively awarded projects such as BECID, and grants and payments from bodies including the International Press Institute, META and Latvian public broadcasters.
Latest news
“The Baltics Are Collapsing, Ukraine Is to Blame”: How Defectors Spread Propaganda in Belarus
The criminal, Russophobic Baltic states are on the verge of collapse, and their governments care only about Ukraine – messages like these, along with similar ones, have been circulated for nearly two years by the Belarus-based propagandist channel Grani Svobodi (Borders of Freedom).
16 Sep 2026
Once Friends, Now “Traitors”: How Latvia’s Parties Are Fighting for the Russian-Speaking Vote
They used to work together in one way or another. Since the collapse of “Harmony” – once the leading party for Latvia’s Russian-speaking voters – four political groups are now competing for what’s left of its supporters in the upcoming parliamentary elections in October. One is the faded old...
13 Sep 2026
From propaganda to the courtroom: how Russia is building a legal case against the Baltic states
For years, the Baltic states dismissed the Kremlin’s increasingly outlandish claims – from implying they were allowing Ukrainian drones to strike Russia from their territory to allegations they were preparing to deport their native Russian speakers – as propaganda. Note, debunk, move on.
14 Jul 2026
In May, the Baltics experienced a perfect storm of events capable of fuelling public anxiety. There were repeated emergency alerts about Ukrainian drones entering airspace, some of them hitting an empty oil depot in Latvian town close to the Russian border and one being shot down by NATO air...
4 Jun 2026
Change Written in Blood: 15 Years of Fighting Family Violence in Latvia
From the dismissive view that “it’s a family matter” to more than 10,000 people gathering in Dome Square to declare that “violence against women is not our value.” Efforts to combat domestic violence in Latvia have at times been pushed by Europe and at others by grassroots activism. Yet some of...
2 Jun 2026
Cleaner, Smaller and Emptier: What Became of Latvia’s Banking Sector After Clean-Up
In the history of Latvian banking, February has often been a month of fateful turns.
2 Jun 2026
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