Latvia News Archives

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.

A meteorite-like object crashed into a meadow in northern Latvia, creating a crater 27 feet wide and 9 feet deep, a geologist who visited the site said Monday.

" On Thursday, October 22, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden will deliver a speech in Romania on the U.S. relationship with the countries of Central Europe and the Baltics.

The medallic chapter by the presidential chancellery has decided to award 102 people - " public figures, musicians, teachers, doctors, military men - " on the 18th of November.

The following is a press release from "Grand Palace Hotel": The SchlA ssle Hotel Group is delighted to announce that the Grand Palace Hotel in Riga once again is the winner of the prestigious World Travel Award.

Ainars Slesers earned the nickname "the human bulldozer" during a controversial stint as Latvia's minister of transport from 2004 to 2009.

The modern sources of energy production are varied, but all energy that we use ultimately comes from the sun, the moon or the earth.

Fresh air, sea, sand, pine trees, blueberry forest ... mmm ... would be glad to rest there for at least a week)

The following is a press release from Olga Khlebnikova Gallery: 28th October 2009 at 6 p.m. the opening of the exhibition of theatre costume sketches by contemporary Latvian theatre artists takes place at Olga Khlebnikova Gallery in Riga, Alberta Street 1-8a. For the general public the exhibition is open from 29th October till 12th December.

ALIVE does not mean well. Unprecedented international efforts have kept Latvia, the European Union's weakest economy, from disaster.

The following is a press release from the Ministry of the Environment: Latvia and Portugal have finalized negotiations about the sale and purchase of Latvia's Assigned Amount Units .

A Latvian-based tourism campaign highlighting the merits of a holiday in the Estonian countryside has wrapped up successfully .

A forest is much more than a collection of trees. It is an ongoing dynamic system that lives, breathes, grows but, ultimately, is also capable of dying.

A few weeks ago a senior Estonian political leader said to me that he believed that the biggest threat to Estonia's security came from Latvia.

Latvia is close to ending a dispute with international donors including Sweden and the International Monetary Fund that jeopardized its bailout loan and raised devaluation speculation, the premiera s office said.

WORLD War II tore Latvia to shreds. Annexed by the Soviet Union, occupied by Nazi Germany, then occupied again by the Red Army, brutalised, degraded and devastated, Latvia suffered dictatorship, colonisation and mass murder.

Nordic banks face losses on lending to Latvia under government proposals to limit the amount that lenders can collect from defaulting mortgage holders.

The European Commission said Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and six other EU nations are breaking a key rule requiring them to keep budget deficits under 3 percent of gross domestic product.

David Cesarani: The Conservatives' choice of partner in Europe traduces Latvian democrats who acknowledge wartime atrocities against Jews The heated exchanges between David Miliband and leading Conservatives over the proposed co-operation between Tory MEPs and the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom party in the European parliament seem, at first sight, ...

DB Schenker and TransContainer are planning a joint container hub in Riga, the capital of Latvia on the Baltic Sea.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Latvian ex-premier Aigars Kalvitis had a meeting on Tuesday during the investment forum Russia Calling under way in Moscow.

Even though the publishing industry in Latvia cannot be compared in size to those in the UK, German or French markets, publishing houses issuing newspapers, magazines and books play a very important role in country's everyday life.