“Today, we are all free Latvians of the world-there are no longer divisions such as exile or diaspora. We are united, we are free, and we have every opportunity and precondition to achieve even ...

Gunnar Birkerts, a modernist architect who created dozens of elegant, gleaming buildings around the world, including a national library in his native Latvia that has become the country’s ...

Latvians of all ages formed a human chain in the freezing cold this weekend to pass books from the old national library to a new one two km (1.2 miles) away as part of festivities to celebrate ...

RIGA - It is important for Latvia to invest in and develop education and science, stressed President Edgars Rinkevics, who participated in the World Latvian Economics and Innovations Forum at the ...

THROUGHOUT May, books will be taken from their cramped, dusty confines in the old National Library of Greece and gingerly placed on trolleys. Over 2m items, including a collection of 4,500 ...