After languishing for decades, the Baltic countries have dusted off their fusty image as a second-rate travel destination and ...

A Holocaust survivor, who was aged 10 when the Nazis closed his Jewish school in Germany and deported him, has described the ...

With the gruelling war, an overheating economy, and desperately harsh western sanctions, the focus on Russian nationalism has ...

Manfred Goldberg, now 94, was sent to the Riga ghetto in Latvia with his mother and younger ... and a wreath will be laid outside St Editha's Church Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire will be ...

For more than 800 years, this church has watched over Riga ... This is also a good place to try Latvia's de facto national drink, Riga Black Balsam. Also in the neighborhood is the Riga Ghetto ...

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Latvian translator Valda Salmiņa (born in 1962) earned a bachelor’s degree in philology with a specialization in German ...

Paula Hong Edson, a local farm wife, was born in Riga, Latvia, on the Baltic Sea Jan. 15 ... Both daughters have been church musicians for a combined 90 years having begun in middle school. They also ...

Explore the magic of Riga, Latvia! From its stunning Art Nouveau architecture to the charming Old Town streets, this travel ...

Sweden sent 550 troops from one of its mechanized infantry battalions to Riga, Latvia, on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade on NATO’s eastern flank. Latvia borders Russia to the ...