With homegrown books and films topping sales in Latvia after decades of foreign cultural domination, the small Baltic state is in the throes of a cultural renaissance as it marks 100 years of ...

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, ...

Municipal officials in the Latvian capital Riga last fall quietly decided to remove citywide public-service billboards that promoted tolerance. A factor in the removal was that some civic groups did ...

For the first time ever, Grand Rapids is hosting the Latvian Song and Dance Festival. The five-day celebration of Latvian culture is expected to draw thousands of visitors from around the world.

ABU DHABI, 29th April, 2025 (WAM) -- Baiba Murniece, Deputy State Secretary at Latvia's Ministry of Culture, underlined the role of culture in fostering peace and mutual understanding, saying it can ...

RIGA, September 15. /TASS/. A protest against the transition of schools for ethnic minorities to teaching in the Latvian language was held in the capital of Riga, where about 5,000 people had come to ...

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 ...

The Jews in Latvia have a cultural autonomy secured by special law and by the existence of a Jewish Educational Department in the Ministry of Education, declared Professor Stroibeck, Latvian Minister ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — For the first time, Michigan is hosting the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, with Grand Rapids serving as ...