News that struck some like a bolt from the blue and for others was a long-awaited decision: on October 30, 2025, the bronze figure of Field Marshal Michael Barclay de Tolly was dismantled from the ...

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 ...

south of Riga, the capital. Only the two-day massacre ... Jewish autonomy and the interests of Jewish workers within the Russian Empire (Jewish Virtual Library). By the early 1920s the Bund ...

It gained brief independence in 1920 from the collapsing Russian Empire, only to be occupied by Nazi Germany ... president of the Baltic Security Foundation in Riga, the Latvian capital, tells The ...

which date from the days of the Russian Empire. They have something of an American Frontier air to them and mostly house cosy cafés. Christmas market in Riga’s Old Town (Roman Babakin/Alamy/PA ...

Alexander Leutner & Co. was the first manufacturer of bicycles and motorcycles, and a pioneer of automobiles, in the Russian Empire. The company was based in Riga. A. Leutner & Co. produced bicycles ...

In Riga, The Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum hung ... These are Russians who do support the reabsorption of Latvia into the (resurgent) Russian “empire.” The city of Daugavpils.

RIGA - Russian dictator Vladimir Putin dreams of restoring the Russian Empire and this is impossible without Ukraine as part of it, President Edgars Rinkevics said on Thursday at the security and ...

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 ...

Starting at Toompea Castle in Tallinn, passing through Riga and ending at Gediminas Tower in Vilnius, the non-Russian residents of the area ... then foreign ministers of the Stalinist empire and the ...