Keen to escape the usual holiday hotspots? Slower, more thoughtful travel experiences await in Eastern Europe.

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

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

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in ...

A Holocaust survivor, who was aged 10 when the Nazis closed his Jewish school in Germany and deported him, has described the "hell on earth" that followed. Manfred Goldberg, now 94, was sent to the ...

Manfred Goldberg, now 94, was sent to the Riga ghetto in Latvia with his mother and younger brother. He went on to be sent to five labour camps over the course of World War Two, including more than ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the ...

After three days and three nights on a train without food or water, Manfred, his younger brother, Herman and their mother found themselves in Riga, the capital of Latvia, beginning a nightmare ...

Budget alternative: Consider visiting Tallinn, Estonia, or Riga, Latvia. These Baltic cities offer a similar Nordic feel at a fraction of the cost. Why it’s expensive: Japan’s capital can be ...

led by the current Riga Mayor Vilnis Ķirsis from “New Unity.” On the other side is the movement led by the former Minister of Transport, a current Latvian Parliament (Saeima) member, and a so-called ...

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 ...