Latvia News News Latvia » Culture: Cultural renaissance sweeps Latvia for centenary
With homegrown books and films topping sales in Latvia after decades of foreign cultural domination, the small Baltic state is in the throes of a cultural renaissance as it marks 100 years of ...
News Latvia » Culture: Dating Culture in Latvia: In this country, every boy has 5 girlfriends, know the lifestyle here.
Latvia lifestyle: India is a country where people only have one girlfriend. Having more than that is considered cheating. Let's tell you about a country where people have five girlfriends. You hear so ...
News Latvia » Culture: Cultural Regeneration Drives Economic Renewal in Riga, Latvia
Can small countries, as part of the EU, regenerate in the face of economic pressures and a younger population in flight? Author and curator Lucy Bullivant recently visited Latvia’s capital city Riga, ...
News Latvia » Culture: Latvia’s UNESCO Intangible Cultural Treasures
Latvia, with Estonia in the North, Lithuania in the South, and the Baltic Sea with its Gulf of Riga to the West and Russia in the East, is a large, fertile lowland located in northeastern Europe. The ...
News Latvia » Culture: Looking at Latvia’s Cultural Fault Line
Municipal officials in the Latvian capital Riga last fall quietly decided to remove citywide public-service billboards that promoted tolerance. A factor in the removal was that some civic groups did ...
News Latvia » Culture: On Latvia’s election day, voters from Philly cast their ballots at a cherished Northern Liberties cultural club
Over 4,000 miles away in northeastern Europe, the Latvian parliamentary elections were underway — and Diana Mednis, a 50-year-old Ocean County, N.J., resident, was determined to cast her ballot. So, ...
News Latvia » Culture: Ukrainians and Latvians are repudiating the Russian language
IT WAS AS though the communities lived both on top of each other and entirely apart. Andrejs Vasiljevs, who runs a digital-translation company in Riga, recalls the divided schedule of his school in ...
News Latvia » Culture: Jews in Latvia Have Cultural Autonomy but Make No Use of It Charges Latvian Minister of Education
The Jews in Latvia have a cultural autonomy secured by special law and by the existence of a Jewish Educational Department in the Ministry of Education, declared Professor Stroibeck, Latvian Minister ...