In order for foreign media to receive the most up-to-date, accurate and exhaustive information possible, the work of the Press Centre of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia, as well as the activities of exiled nationals abroad, was of great importance.
On January 20, thirty years ago, in the Latvian news survey created by Maija Ķuze on Canadian radio, the feeling of expectations was mixed with a great deal of excitement. Maija Ķuze reported the difficulties the press in Latvia was experiencing as the Press Building had been taken over by the OMON days of press spending in Latvia, about the demonstration in support of the Baltics at the American Embassy in Toronto, as well as January 13 manifestation in Rīga, Daugavmala, with 600 000 people participating.