The Pallada, the pride of the Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University (Dalrybvtuz), celebrated her birthday on July 4, 2008. The ship was named for the famed Russian frigate, described by Ivan Goncharov in his novel...
Riga - Latvian President Valdis Zatlers urged parliament on Wednesday to change the constitution to grant voters a right to call snap elections. To quickly and successfully solve parliamentary and state crises, the constitution...
Riga, 04.08.2008 On October 24 of this year, airBaltic will begin direct flights from Riga to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. airBaltic will fly to Dubai twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays. The flight will be offered on a...
Latvian border guard service fines tens of Estonians every month for attempta to enter the country without an ID card or passport. Postimees writes that in most cases Estonians think that after joining the Schengen zone it is...
AFP - Latvians were voting Saturday in a referendum that could give the Baltic state's electorate the constitutional right to dissolve parliament, a power supporters say is needed to clip the wings of arrogant politicians.
This year’s festival will take place in Riga, Latvia, from September 25th till 26th, 2008 at the „World Trade Center Riga” Two days of Golden Hammer are going to be filled with marketing and advertising seminars red by leading...
RIGA - The oil and publishing industries may seem to go together as naturally and bacon and chalk, but in Latvia the two have a direct link. An announcement by energy company Ventspils Nafta on 31st July says that the brand new...
RIGA - The first major casualty from Latvia’s economic retrenchment has hit the bankruptcy court, as real estate investor Janis Abolins filed an application for insolvency, saying he is “tired of fighting with the banks and...
RIGA - An alleged Soviet war criminal from World War II has won a landmark case against Latvia in the European Court of Human Rights and is to be compensated for his detention in the country. World War II veteran Vasily...