This year the former head of the Culture Hall at Rēzekne, Ruta Laizāne, is trying to revive the art of making puzuri - octahedrons that for Latvians are a symbol of the universe, - reported Latvian Radio Tuesday.
In the last few years illegal fishing rates have gone down in Latgale, and locals are more readily reporting lawbreakers to the authorities, say fishing inspectors. Latvian Radio's Renāte Lazdiņa looked into the tendencies of illegal fishing in Latgale - the region sometimes referred to as the land of blue lakes (zilo ezeru zeme) - on a story published Monday.
As Latvia’s public media stewards mull the creation of a new Russian-language television channel to involve the non-Latvian speaking population in civic affairs, many of these residents living near the borders of Russia and Belarus in the mostly rural south and east of Latgale province welcome the move, but say it’s coming about two decades too late.
