Empires fall: The Russian empire fell, the Soviet empire fell ... Nemirovskaya, from her exile in Riga, recently told me that her efforts were not in vain. She still believes that the three ...

In an interview in Riga, the capital ... mindful of its past subjugation by both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, is still on edge amid a barrage of anti-Latvian fury from Moscow.

The Treaty of Riga was concluded on March 18 ... Since the days of the Russian Empire, Afghanistan had always been critical to Russia’s geopolitical strategy, and in 1979, the Soviet Union ...

RIGA, LATVIA’S gorgeous ... it was the summer residence of the Duke of Courland but with the expansion of the Russian Empire, Catherine the Great presented the palace to Count Valerian Zubov ...

FILE - Latvian Army armoured carriers ride during a military parade on Latvian Independence Day, in Riga on Friday ... highest-rated cities Ukraine repels Russian air attack with French Mirage ...

An American who fled the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built a $200 million canned-food empire is calling on President Donald Trump to help rescue his company after Russian authorities seized the ...

An American businessman is urging President Trump to help save his $200 million canned-food empire after Russian authorities took over his company and seized its assets. Los Angeles-based Leonid ...

Riga (AFP) – In Riga Russian Theatre's rehearsal room, actors gather for a table-read of the season's big premiere, "Lady Macbeth" -- but the play's poster will not crop up around the Latvian ...

Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia basically hopeless, many Jewish families left ...

Empires fall: The Russian Empire fell, the Soviet empire fell ... Nemirovskaya, from her exile in Riga, recently told me that her efforts were not in vain. She still believes that the three ...