A slippery whodunit at the Tukuma piens dairy, as on November 3 an accident resulted in two and a half tons of coffee cream being flushed into the sewers in the town of Tukums, reported LTV and Latvian Radio.
Archaeological excavations have uncovered the remains of fifty World War I soldiers--Latvian soldiers of that time are often referred to as the Latvian Riflemen--at Ložmetējkalns, a historical battle site where thousands of Latvian soldiers fought the German army under Tsarist Russia, reported LTV on July 9.
On March 8 a total 52 new recruits joined the army at the Infantry School in Alūksne, reported LTV. Latvia plans on recruiting more than 800 new soldiers to its professional army in 2017, compared to last year's 600.
It's been a hundred years since the Latvian riflemen's battalion showed incredible courage and valor in Christmas Battles, which were one of the largest and most decisive operations in Latvia during the First World War. Hundreds were present at the battle sites of Tīreļpurvs and Ložmetējkalns to honor the Latvian riflemen, reported Latvian Television Saturday.
On May 16 Valentīne Lasmane turned 100. Lasmane helped refugees depart on boats to Sweden during the second world war. After the war, she lived in Sweden and at one point successfully campaigned for freeing the anti-Soviet dissident Lidija Lasmane-Doroņina reported Latvian Television Monday.
Many relatives only know their soldier's date of death, not where he was buried. The Latvian War Museum on Thursday held the Latvian legionnaires' information day, and specialists tried helping people trace their relatives' fates during the Second World War. Everyone interested can do so at the War Museum, not only on that day.
A map with documents about the repressions of the 1940s was found, containing KGB documents. It was probably collected by a KGB employee. It was found after a new owner of a house found it while sorting the things that came with the house. The documents were handed to the Latvian Association of Lawyers, reported Latvian Television on Saturday.
Wooden figures depicting Latvian fairy tale character Sprīdītis, and other popular children's character s such as Winnie the Pooh and Shrek, will in future welcome the youngest patients outside in the sprawling campus of buildings at Riga's Children's Hospital.
Upgrades at the radiotelescope space research facility at Irbene in Ventspils district have been completed and after some spectacular cranework its antenna was raised again atop the tower in the woods Wednesday. From now on the Irbene Astronomy Center shall be closed to the public as it prepares to resume space research operations in October.
