The arched sculpture, which is a granite boulder, represents the passage of immigrants from Latvia to the United States through a silhouette of a woman in traditional folk dress in the Latvian ...

Can small countries, as part of the EU, regenerate in the face of economic pressures and a younger population in flight? Author and curator Lucy Bullivant recently visited Latvia’s capital city Riga, ...

Aleks and Indra Briedis met as children at Latvian School in Chicago. “Our parents have almost identical stories,” Aleks said as he settled his 3-year-old twin blondes into the chairs on either side ...

A Latvian Culture Exhibit will be on display at the South Windsor Library throughout the month of August. Windsor resident Helga Maggi spent 12 hours creating the display as a chance to show her ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 20. Latvia’s Ministry of Culture State Secretary Dace Vilsone will embark on a working visit to Tokyo and Osaka from August 20–23 to explore opportunities for bilateral ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 21. From July 21 to August 2, Riga will host a high-level international training session focused on enhancing knowledge and skills related to cultural heritage protection in the ...

Acording to the reform, minority schools will teach most subjects in Latvian, just a few subjects (Russian language, literature) and "subjects linked to culture and history" will be studied in Russian ...

The Minister of Education, M. Keninsch, has issued a new order relating to the minority secondary and professional schools, which provides: (1) That the secondary and professional schools of the ...

IT WAS AS though the communities lived both on top of each other and entirely apart. Andrejs Vasiljevs, who runs a digital-translation company in Riga, recalls the divided schedule of his school in ...

Following 24 years of diplomatic relations, Latvia finally opened its official residence in September 2015 to become the newest embassy here in South Korea. His Excellency Peteris Vaivars, appointed ...