With homegrown books and films topping sales in Latvia after decades of foreign cultural domination, the small Baltic state is in the throes of a cultural renaissance as it marks 100 years of ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - When quickly looking into the Latvian Cultural Garden from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, a first glance may reveal a few boulders upon a hill with some rudimentary carvings. But at a ...
EADaily, . The development of Latvia is still hampered by the consequences of the "Soviet occupation", Russification and the ...
Municipal officials in the Latvian capital Riga last fall quietly decided to remove citywide public-service billboards that promoted tolerance. A factor in the removal was that some civic groups did ...
Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email RIGA, Latvia - The Nazi Concentration Camp just outside the city of Riga, Latvia was the focus of Saber Strike ...
Can small countries, as part of the EU, regenerate in the face of economic pressures and a younger population in flight? Author and curator Lucy Bullivant recently visited Latvia’s capital city Riga, ...
The Baltic nation of Latvia has proposed legislation to taper Russian influence within its borders, where it's estimated that 40 percent of the population are Russians who call it home. Current ...
The Jews in Latvia have a cultural autonomy secured by special law and by the existence of a Jewish Educational Department in the Ministry of Education, declared Professor Stroibeck, Latvian Minister ...
RIGA, September 15. /TASS/. A protest against the transition of schools for ethnic minorities to teaching in the Latvian language was held in the capital of Riga, where about 5,000 people had come to ...