On May 29, tens of thousands of blondes will parade through the Latvian capital of Riga, as part of the city’s annual Go Blonde festival. airBaltic welcomes Go Blonde visitors to Riga on the airline’s ...

Ivars Slokenbergs was elected as Chairman of the Board and President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia at the Board meeting on March 23, 2010.

1 July, councilmen from the recently-elected Riga City Council voted in Nils Usakovs (Harmony Center) as Riga mayor. 37 councilmen voted for Usakovs, whilst 21 city councilmen voted for the other ...

The Board of the Financial and Capital Market Commission (hereinafter – the FCMC) during an extraordinary meeting overnight adopted a decision on the occurrence of unavailability of deposits at ABLV ...

The fact that Ventspils millionaires – Olafs Berkis, Olegs Stepanovs, Igors Skoks and Genadijs Sevcovs – have been elected into Ventspils Nafta Supervisory Council clearly shows that the international ...

On November 21.11.2013 Maxima shopping center roof collapsed in Riga, Latvia causing deaths and international news. While the rescue work and cleaning of the site is still ongoing, the causes of the ...

Even though local freight increased this year by 11.7% (11.5 million tonnes were transported), yet international cargo volumes fell by 9% (24 million tonnes were transported). Saulius Stasiunas, ...

The Latvian State Police has published on its website a list of those killed in the collapse of the Maxima shopping center near Zolitūde in Riga. The list consists of 54 victims, there are no children ...

Statistics Estonia presents today, i.e. on 31 July, the newly published publication “Eesti statistika aastaraamat. 2009. Statistical Yearbook of Estonia“, which gives an overview of the Estonian ...

According to a survey, which purpose was to clarify what eye color the people of Latvia have, turned out that the most common eye color among citizens of Latvia is bluish-grey. The research, which was ...

Scandinavian financial service businesses have quickly gained a foothold in the Baltic countries as a result of geographical proximity and cultural similarities, as now they grow even faster than in ...

The Supreme Court of Latvia has overruled the conviction of several defendants that were tried in the so-called digital television case, informs LETA. As LETA was told at the court, on hearing the ...