Munkevics was the mayor of Jurmala from September 2006 to October last year. The other candidate for the office was Jurmala ATU Director Juris Visockis (New Era); four Jurmala councilmen voted for him ...

The chief of the Helmand unit in Afghanistan, Brigadier General Tim Radford stated that the soldiers of the Estonian infantry company Estcoy-8 fought bravely ‘like tigers’ this summer, writes the ...

During last month's high profile drug bust, the State Revenue Service (SRS) confiscated a total of 139.6 kilograms of marijuana from a marijuana plantation, LETA was informed by the head of the SRS's ...

This is it, my friends! It happened! We finally found someone willing to take over and continue our business. In the year of our 25th anniversary, in June – precisely the month the first ever issue of ...

A Latvian national who had joined the Islamic State terrorist group, died in Syria, said Latvian Security Police chief Normunds Mezviets in an interview with commercial LNT channel on March 7 th, ...

Although, in 2007 general government budget surplus has been found, opposite tendency has been observed in breakdown by subsectors. Thus, during 2007 budget deficit in central government subsector ...

The traditional WWII Victory Day events will once again take place at Riga's Victory Park by the Victory Monument today, informs LETA. Just as last year, the events will feature concerts, speeches and ...

On May 29, tens of thousands of blondes will parade through the Latvian capital of Riga, as part of the city’s annual Go Blonde festival. airBaltic welcomes Go Blonde visitors to Riga on the airline’s ...

Four eastern and southern European states face a shrinking and aging population, the World Bank warned Thursday, calling for urgent policy changes to prevent knock-on effects on health and social care ...

Fourteen Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian companies were included on the list of 500 largest Central and Eastern European enterprises, and only two companies ranked in the top 100, the Financial Times ...

Lithuania and Hungary are interested in accelerating the development of the Eastern Partnership, the countries share similar positions on many issues that the European Union and NATO focus on, and the ...

The Foreigners Registration Centre (FRC), managed by the Border Police Department in Pabrade has been operating for 15 years already. It was established in January, 1997, in the quarters of the Border ...