![Thirty thousand small acts of defiance](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2022/03/thumbnail/1/hfvb.jpg)
![Thirty thousand small acts of defiance](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2022/03/thumbnail/1/hfvb.jpg)
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![Things to know about Latvia's soon-to-be-published KGB files](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2014/07/thumbnail/0/2xm3.jpg)
![Things of Latvia: City cats](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2018/06/thumbnail/1/9i7u.jpg)
![Overview: Major military exercises slated for summer](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2016/06/thumbnail/0/5ul0.jpg)
![Quiz: The Latvian language and the modern age](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/09/thumbnail/1/883i.jpg)
![À chacun son arbre: La loi sur l’eau de bouleau](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2016/04/thumbnail/0/5hsc.jpg)
![Things of Latvia: Accidental knowledge of the Russian language](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2014/05/thumbnail/0/2s0n.jpg)
![Things of Latvia: This time of the year](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2018/02/thumbnail/1/8yss.jpg)
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![Poets of Latvia: Jeļena Glazova](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2018/02/thumbnail/1/8u6m.jpg)
![Poets of Latvia: Vasilijs Karasjovs](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2018/02/thumbnail/1/8tz8.jpg)
![Poets of Latvia: Marija Luīze Meļķe](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2018/01/thumbnail/1/8tu1.jpg)
![Poets of Latvia: Raibīs](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2018/01/thumbnail/3/8tng.jpg)
![Poets of Latvia: Raimonds Ķirķis](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2018/01/thumbnail/2/8tix.jpg)
![Can you guess the meaning of these 11 Latvian idioms?](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/08/thumbnail/1/83k5.jpg)
![Things of Latvia: Buying booze at gas stations](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2013/04/thumbnail/0/1rfh.jpg)
![Look back: Nordic Days in Liepāja](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/12/thumbnail/1/8lsw.jpg)
![Interview: Dens Dimiņš, translator and polyglot](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/12/thumbnail/3/8ln7.jpg)
![Interview: Daina Tabūna, writer](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/11/thumbnail/1/8hlr.jpg)
Daina Tabūna's stories have recently been published in the UK by The Emma Press, bearing the title, The Secret Box. The illustrated collection features three stories from her debut, Pirmā reize (The First Time).
![Things of Latvia: Andris Kivičs](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/05/thumbnail/1/7pwx.jpg)
As a rule of thumb, the longer any particular Latvian party is drawn out, the higher the chance someone will put on something by Andris Kivičs, use his lyrics to make an ironic point, or simply mention him, often apropos nothing, to score an easy laugh.
![Things of Latvia: School Markets](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/09/thumbnail/1/89cd.jpg)
There's a peculiar tradition on Miķeļi (September 29), known in English as Michaelmas, for kids to bring homemade trinkets, food and other things to school for sale. It could be seen as an attempt to instill entrepreneurial spirit among young people, but wherever there are children involved, things are bound to slide off course.
![Things of Latvia: Trolleybus No. 15](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/08/thumbnail/1/841k.jpg)
![Book lover dedicates mansion to art and education](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/08/thumbnail/1/82yw.jpg)
Valters Dakša, a young book lover with a collection of about 5,000 titles, is giving away the house he inherited from his parents in order to transform it into an arts center.
![Things of Latvia: Two-liter beer bottles](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/05/thumbnail/1/7n5r.jpg)
![Things of Latvia: Potholes](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/04/thumbnail/0/75ca.jpg)
In a new series of small features, LSM looks at things that could be considered characteristic of Latvia; things that create the little 'nowhere but here' moments that make our country stand out, for better or worse. What better way to start off than potholes, a phenomenon with which many people will be intimately and physically familiar.
![A Good, Short Day](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/06/thumbnail/1/7sld.jpg)
June 9 marked three years and nine days since A., 17, started living at the Liepāja Orphanage.
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![The journey of the Latvian language](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2016/03/thumbnail/0/5ehz.jpg)
The Latvian language is "a mirror of the wonderful story of our nation", says a linguistics professor at the University of Latvia.
![How Latgale chose to join Latvia](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2017/03/thumbnail/0/71hk.jpg)
May 9-10 marks the 100th anniversary of the First Latgale Congress. It was then, in 1917, that Latgalians chose to unite with the other Latvian regions. What follows is a Latvian Radio strand highlighting the differences between Latgalians and other Latvian speakers, as well as tracing their role in the formation of the Latvian state.
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![New translation recounts another chapter of Latvia's Jewish history](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8xg.jpg)
![Hard graft: Latvians work an average of 37 years](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/06/thumbnail/4/o0z0.jpg)
![U.S. and Latvia team up on digitization drive](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8x6.jpg)
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![Barring Ždanoka as a political candidate in Latvia was fine, rules ECHR](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/02/thumbnail/1/n19h.jpg)
![Biggest taxpayers in Latvia named](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8oe.jpg)
![More details emerge of suspected murder plot against police official](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8y4.jpg)
![Food parcel machine idea picks up in Latvia](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8uc.jpg)
![Five arrested in connection with suspected murder plot](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8k2.jpg)
![Hard graft: Latvians work an average of 37 years](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/06/thumbnail/4/o0z0.jpg)
![New translation recounts another chapter of Latvia's Jewish history](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8xg.jpg)
![Latvian Olympics athletes guide: Part 2](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8wi.jpg)
![U.S. and Latvia team up on digitization drive](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o8x6.jpg)
![Latvian Olympics athletes guide: Part 1](https://static.lsm.lv/media/2024/07/thumbnail/1/o64a.jpg)
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