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New democracies that embraced the free market are facing their deepest crisis after years of rapid growth Firefighters demonstrate in Budapest for better pay and against austerity measures.

A deadly fire in the Latvian capital of Riga has claimed seven lives, the State Fire and Rescue Service reported Sunday.

FREIBERGA: Latvia's Iron Lady, the former president has acolourful life story, but at 71, diplomats rate her chances as slim even ifthe symbolic value of appointing a woman will tempt some.

Electronics and clothing stores at the Galerijas Centrs in Rigaa s old town fly banners offering discounts of as much as 50 percent.

State Joint Stock Company Latvian Railway , one of the largest employers in the country, plays an important role in diminishing road traffic by facilitating inter-city mobility as well as constituting a growing and dynamic freight transport market.

RIGA - Signs that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia may be emerging from recession have brought little comfort in the Baltic states, as the public braces for the worst economic winter in years.

Riga - One former and one current president from two Baltic states emerged Wednesday as potential candidates for the new position of European Union president.

A recent survey has found that Latvenergo is now the country's most valuable company.

A recent survey by DnB Nord Latvia Barometer reveals that 32 percent of Latvians do not trust anyone for economic advice.

View a slideshow of images from Latvia, with photographs by Akim Aginsky and captions by Kristina Rizga.

But by afternoon, more and more voices were suggesting a non-celestial source for the unusual find.

As award-winning British architect Ian Ritchie noted in his research paper "Tendencies: Image, Architecture and Innovation," the history of architecture is the history of the way in which light enters the building - through small openings in masonry walls and roofs, to infilling them with small pieces of glass, to total glass enclosures.

In September 2009, Ventspils Grain Terminal shipped 142.8 thsd tonnes of grain cargoes, declared the press-cutting service of the port.

Latvian police decided not to initiate a criminal investigation over the hoax meteorite strike staged in the Baltic state by a Latvian mobile operator, the Delfi web portal said on Tuesday.

People seen near a crater, 9 meters wide and 3 meters deep, reportedly created by a meteorite-like object that crashed into a meadow in the Mazsalaca region, northern Latvia, near the Estonian border, on Monday, Oct.

Reports that a meteorite fell to Earth on 25 October leaving a 20-meter crater near a town in Latvia are false, a scientist has said after studying the site where the body was said to have hit the ground.

The following is a press release from the U.S. Embassy in Riga: Riga, October 23, 2009.

A meteorite hurtling to Earth is thought to have left a 15-metre wide crater in Latvia.

The following is a press release from the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia: The Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia invite you to an Executive Industrial Policy Seminar Thursday, November 5, 2009 09:00 - " 19:00 The initiative behind the Executive Industrial Policy Seminar comes from Members of the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia ...

A fiery object struck farmland creating a large crater near a small town in northern Latvia.