The commemorations began at 11:00 am with a wreath-laying ceremony at a former Polish cemetery in the nearby locality Slobodka. The burial site contains 237 Polish graves. At 12:30 pm, a plaque ...

Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre in Latvia invites artists to apply for various symposia in Daugavpils or Viļaka in 2026.

Amity Gaige is the author of the novel "O My Darling," to be published by Other Press this month. On Friday, President Bush will stop for a visit in the very small Baltic country of Latvia. The ...

Reporting from Riga, Latvia — When the People’s Republic of Latgale was proclaimed on the Internet in late January, security officials in this small former Soviet republic took notice. Until the ...

REZEKNE, Latvia — On a continent of fractured loyalties, a kaleidoscope of separatist passions extending from Scotland to eastern Ukraine, Piters Locs, the 70-year-old champion of an obscure and, at ...

It's dubbed Operation Reassurance, but not everyone in Latvia agrees with the moniker given to the NATO mission Canada will soon be leading in this former Soviet republic. Unease abounds about the ...

RIGA, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Around 6,000 pigs will have to be culled at an eastern Latvian farm that has been hit by African swine fever (ASF) this week, the Latvian veterinary authority informed on ...

A short film depicting a fictional military clash of superpowers resulting in a nuclear attack on Latvia has caused a stir in the Baltic country's society, with authorities trying to calm down ...