Latvia's parliamentary election on Saturday could widen a growing rift between the country's Latvian majority and its Russian-speaking minority over their place in society, amid widespread national ...

RIGA, October 1, 2015 – Today, the World Bank presented its new report The Active Aging Challenge for Longer Working Lives in Latvia, prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Welfare of the ...

Latvia is a European country situated between Lithuania and Estonia on the Baltic Sea. Over the years, Latvia has made economic progress, but with improving quality of life, the birth rate has tended ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The distress among all sections of the Jewish population, especially in Riga, is assuming catastrophic dimensions, says an appeal issued here by the Jewish Emergency Belief Committee. Tragic times ...

Latvia has grabbed the 5th place on our list of top 12 countries with declining population, with a large jump in the rate of decline compared to its predecessor. Latvia has a small population of just ...

Russia could use the large number of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers living in Latvia to justify either covert or more overt destabilization of Latvian politics. However, linguistic and ethnic ...

The Jewish population of Lativa has decreased 1300 in the last five years. It now numbers 94,600 or 4.97 per cent of the general population. Five years ago the Jews of Latvia composed 5.19 per cent of ...

Latvia is gearing up for the possibility they could be next after Ukraine. Officials say their military are drastically understaffed, so the country plans to bring back compulsory military service.