Friday, June 5, 2026

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Opinion: SIF will decide whether to give Latvian taxpayers’ money to Estonian media; no one checks the produced publications

To some, such a headline may sound biased or tendentious, yet unfortunately it is true. That can happen. On Friday, December 5, the Society Integration Foundation (SIF) will decide whether to change the current procedure for allocating funds from the Media Support Fund (SIF), replacing the existing distribution with one that provides more money for online media. Considering that audience size is among the criteria, there is a […]

3 things Delfi doesn’t tell you…

At the time when I worked at the Ministry of Economics and saw how politicians acted and then publicly said something completely different, deliberately distorting information, sometimes the level of manipulation was such that I could not even believe it was possible at all. I tried to understand whether a particular person did this out of conviction, defending certain interests, or really did not understand […]

The State Audit Office might have difficulties auditing the MAF, because the State Auditor’s wife is involved in evaluating media projects

“Ploka was driven to despair by all of this. She had turned to the State Audit Office with a request to carry out an audit of the SIF. Zaiga [Pūce–ed.] left and that was a good moment. The State Audit Office said “no”, and I think that one of the reasons is that Zitmane is the wife of the Auditor General. If they start digging there, it may turn out that she is there […]

SIF spends more on maintaining the institution itself than on media, NGO and family support programs combined

Should the Society Integration Foundation (SIF) be liquidated? This question has surfaced on social media after the Union of Greens and Farmers submitted a proposal in the Saeima to liquidate it. Inc. looked into how SIF spends the budget funds that are allocated to this organization every year; in 2025 this amounts to 37 million euros.  An interesting picture emerges – SIF not only for maintaining the institution itself SIF […]