''Diena'' (''The Day'') is a

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national daily

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, published since 23 November 1990. It is one of Latvia's largest daily periodicals and used to be considered as a

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. Following the change of ownership in 2008, many of the newspaper's staff resigned and founded the weekly newspaper ''Ir'' in 2010. The newspaper was initially founded as the official paper of the

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. Since privatisation in 1993, Diena was owned by Swedish media group Bonnier. In 2009, AS Diena together with its sister business daily Dienas Bizness was sold to investor group owned by Jonathan and David Rowland. The Latvian businessman

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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 Laimonis Strujevičs. In 2007, the

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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

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format in 2007. The newspaper's

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edition was discontinued in 2000. Bojārs left his position at the end of 2012, sociologist Aigars Freimanis replaced him in his position only for four months, but from May 10, 2013 Gatis Madžiņš became the chief editor of the newspaper.

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