As reported, fans of the Dutch football club Ajax Amsterdam rioted in downtown Riga ahead of a football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Latvia's RFS in January 2025, causing damage to the Freedom ...

RIGA - President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo will arrive in Latvia on June 10-11, LETA was informed by Liliana Flandere, Communications Specialist at the Media Center of the President's ...

A U.S. B-52 bomber will fly over Riga with NATO allies, symbolizing a commitment to Baltic security. The event includes a photo contest, inviting civilian engagement. At one time, the United ...

Writer Graham Greene once hailed Riga the “Paris of the North ... awaits across Bastejkalns Park (en route, check out the Freedom Monument, with its tightly-drilled guards).

The producer from Latvia's first Oscar-winning film "Flow" said the capital Riga has turned into "Flow Land" in honor ... and they also put up this cat statue /.../ next to the Freedom Monument," he ...

“There was a special event at the monument of freedom in the center of Riga to welcome [us],” Kaza ... the entire team visited the president of Latvia. The three major trophies received ...

a three-dimensional sculpture of it now sits atop the letters RIGA in what has become a photo spot near the Freedom Monument. Latvia’s president Edgars Rinkēvičs not only congratulated ...

Yet the residents of Riga have always stayed fiercely ... past the towering Freedom Monument, erected in 1935 to mark Latvia’s first period of independence. Its trees and lawns are equally ...

the three oldest stone houses in Riga. Just outside the old walls awaits the Freedom Monument: built to commemorate Latvia’s independence in the 1930s. Ironically, just a few years later ...