People should not fall into hysterics in the current geopolitical situation, said once the Latvian ambassador to Russia, ...

President Donald Trump spoke by phone to Russian President Vladimir Putin, breaking a years-long silence between the Oval ...

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

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Latvian translator Valda Salmiņa (born in 1962) earned a bachelor’s degree in philology with a specialization in German ...

Author: Ilona Bērziņa Ainārs Šlesers has no doubts he will become the next Mayor of Riga in municipal elections this summer.

Public transport in Riga could be free for all passengers, the Latvia First leader suggested ... Public transport would become more crowded and unappealing, which would encourage people would switch ...

Manfred Goldberg, now 94, was sent to the Riga ghetto in Latvia with his mother and younger ... with children in Shropshire to ensure that people never forget what happened. It comes as events ...

LDz says the speed of passenger services plays an important role as people decide whether ... the maximum speed of passenger trains in Latvia is only 120km/h. Projects are underway to increase that to ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated "sabotage" and ordered the detention of a Navibulgar vessel ...

It is a reminder that the number of survivors is dwindling, leaving fewer and fewer people to bear witness to the Nazi ... Herman and their mother found themselves in Riga, the capital of Latvia, ...