RIGA, Latvia — Each year on May 9, Russia's Victory Day, thousands of Russian-speaking Latvians gather underneath this capital city's 24-story-tall Victory Monument to commemorate Soviet soldiers who ...

This is a tour of Riga Latvia. In this Riga travel guide we explore the old town and along the riverfront. Riga is an easy going city in the Baltic state of Latvia. I have been exploring the Baltic ...

This unique museum in the center of Old City Riga shares the story of what life was like for Latvians under the Communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany occupation regimes from 1940 to 1991. In ...

In mid-November of 2024, we took a quick, three-day trip from Paris to Riga, Latvia. One of the main purposes of the trip was that we are big Art Nouveau aficionados, and prior to the trip we learned ...

Gregory Zalcman, from left, Ron Dyens, Gints Zilbalodis, center, and Matiss Kaza accept the award for best animated feature film for "Flow" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby ...

A lush park outside Latvia’s capital will soon house a memorial to victims of Nazi Germany’s Jungfernhof concentration camp, which operated on the site during World War II. Beginning in late 1941, ...

Riga, the Latvian capital, wakes up at night and stays breathless until morning. At 9 pm, Riga stretches out of a slumber – men daub after-shave, mousse-tidy bed hair; women hook their tiny black ...

Current time and date at Riga International Airport is 18:36:43 PM (EET) on Saturday, Dec 6, 2025 Looking for information on Riga International Airport, Riga, Latvia? Know about Riga International ...

Riga, Latvia – Thick black smoke billowed across Skonto Stadium as fans of the Israeli football team, Beitar Jerusalem, defied UEFA rules, setting off several rounds of pyrotechnics. With only one ...

(JTA) — A probe into a Latvian officer who led mass killings of Jews during World War II has been dropped — for a third time. Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death ...

The Latvian aviation authorities have decided to extend the temporary ban on evening and night flights of all types of ...