Organizers of the Baltic states' joint presence at this year's London Book Fair have released details of the accompanying program of events.
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Children like to spot trucks from other countries and even adults get a little tremor of pleasure from seeing such things.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the first-ever visit of a sitting Japanese PM to Latvia January 13, a little over a month after his Latvian counterpart Maris Kučinskis made history in the other direction when he visited Tokyo.
Arabic international news channel Al Jazeera said December 7 that Latvian banks played a role in a major fraud involving former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, now sheltering himself in Russia, and some of his associates.
When Latvians move abroad they become perfect and carefree. This is something they would never say out loud, but it is what can be inferred from the tales of those left behind.
If by now you're tired of dreaming of a white Christmas and are increasingly grateful that it isn't Christmas every day, if your jingle bells have shriveled up in the cold and your chestnuts are burned after leaving them roasting on an open fire, you have our sympathy.
The parliamentary commission charged with investigating the so-called "oligarch conversations" had one of its biggest days December 18 with the appearance of former Prime Minister Andris Šķēle and the high profile perpetual mayor of Ventspils, Aivars Lembergs.
Several hundred demonstrators performed a lap of Riga's Old Town December 14 protesting against proposed educational reforms that would make Latvian language compulsory for the majority of instruction in the classroom.
Latvian airline airBaltic is inviting aspiring airline pilots to apply the airline’s newly established Pilot Academy.
Latvia is requesting that two more items of its unique cultural heritage are recognized for inclusion in a UNESCO "Memory of the World" list.
The latest data of the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) show that during the year (in November 2017, compared to November 2016) the average level of consumer prices rose by 2.7 %.
Latvian taekwondo fighter Inese Tarvida won silver and her sister Jolanta won bronze at the European Taekwondo Championship in Bulgaria on December 7, the LETA news agency reported.
It is the awards season, so what better way to celebrate than by naming Latvia's best and worst Members of the European parliament? Well, there are many better ways, but here goes, nevertheless.
A series of presidential discussions on security issues facing Latvia in the 21st century continued December 6 with presentations on the subject of so-called "fake news" taking place at Riga Castle.
"You can't please all of the people all of the time," Abraham Lincoln said (quoting poet John Lydgate) back in the days when American presidents were renowned for their wisdom, broad reading habits and their way with words.
Foreigners love to moan about Latvia's roads and road users. The dangerous drivers, the disrepair, the lack of signs, the inability to parallel park. Let's imagine I've written all those pieces and you've read them and found them a bit disappointing.
November 8 saw the opening in Riga of a pan-Baltic office (or "chapter" to use the official designation of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), an organization dedicated to improving the fight against illicit flows of cash - a problem that over the last decade has been a constant problem within the Latvian banking sector.
The Riga-based NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (STRATCOMCOE) on November 8 hosted an event revealing its latest research on the activities of 'bots' in the Baltic states.
Pensioners and others with health problems are being targeted by unethical advertising campaigns in which fictitious medical professionals recommend the use of humble vitamin pills to cure everything from deafness to parasitic infestation, an LSM investigation reveals.
A swish new website has been unveiled to showcase some of the best in Latvia's business offerings to the rest of the world.
On October 2, we ran a story about an extraordinary series of emails published online between American oncologist David Gorski, and Lelde Lapa, Assistant of the business development department of the International Virotherapy Center (IVC) which has an office in Riga but is officially based in Dubai.
It is unthinkable that a medical professional -- or even a business professional -- would intentionally foist a bogus cure onto a cancer patient.
Latvia's new ambassador to the Russian Federation, Māris Riekstiņš, received his accreditation from Russian President Vladimir Putin inside the Kremlin October 3.
Latvians took to the streets of Riga by the dozen October 3 to demand not a referendum or a resignation but the restoration of a concert hall that was once the work place of a young Richard Wagner.
Latvia's central bank (Latvijas banka, LB) on October 3 marked the 150th centenary of the birth of pioneering poet Eduards Veidenbaums by putting him on a coin.
Ukraine's foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin was on a visit in Riga on September 29.
In the latest scandal to hit the Latvian banking sector, it appears a home-grown Latvian bank is being used to help send cash into the Russia-backed regime in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, with the illegally-constituted local authorities having a say in how it is spent.
Just because you like taking part in torchlight parades doesn't necessarily mean you're a Nazi.
Health Minister Anda Caksa has promised to get critics and supporters of the controversial claimed cancer treatment 'Rigvir' around a table to debate their differences and establish what claims to clinical effectiveness the treatment possesses.
This week the Minutes from Latvia podcast features British historian Philip Ruff, whose decades-long researches have cast new light on a fascinating period in both Latvian and British history.
Riga is the best city in the world through which to walk with your head tilted back at an angle of thirty degrees.