RIGA - The majority of residents of Latvia, or 65 percent, are happy with the way their lives are going, according to a survey carried out by research company Kantar.

Gints Zilbalodis’s “Flow” is the first Latvian film to get Academy Award nods, for animated feature and international feature. The director talks about the film’s journey.

“Walking around Riga city there are Flow posters everywhere and people are doing graffiti of ... “It has provided a kind of uplifting feeling for Latvia.” The national pride is understandable.

Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian ... battalion arrived early Saturday in the port of Riga, the Latvian capital, escorted by the Swedish air force and ...