Hounding the free media in Latvia on their coverage of what is starting to look like a lame-duck law, one which requires residents of that country who are Russian citizens to get a basic knowledge of ...

Latvia’s Saeima earlier adopted a reform, according to which minority schools will start using the Latvian language for most subjects starting from 2020 RIGA, April 2. /TASS/. Latvian President ...

Latvian is the native language of just over 64 percent of the population of that country, according to a recent survey. This reflects the 18-69 age-group, public broadcaster LSM reports; when confined ...

Russian MPs have urged their government to impose economic sanctions on Latvia, where the Latvian language will be made compulsory in all secondary schools. The language reform is being phased in; by ...

RIGA, Latvia — Contemporary Russian music is the rage in Latvia’s capital, but when listeners tuned in for their daily dose of dance tracks on a popular radio station, they got nothing but dead air.

The Constitutional Court of Latvia has declared the transition of all general education institutions in the country to education only in the state language as compliant to the Constitution. The court ...

Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis on April 2 approved the transfer of national minority schools to the Latvian language of instruction. He said that classes in Latvian in secondary schools would ...

RIGA, Latvia — Contemporary Russian music is the rage in Latvia’s capital, but when listeners tuned in for their daily dose of dance tracks on a popular radio station, they got nothing but dead air.

Rights of ethnic Russians in Baltic states still violated — ombudsman RIGA, November 10. /TASS/. All Latvian schools should make the Russian language compulsory, Latvian ex-premier Ainars Slesers said ...