Latvia’s Constitutional court has declared that implementation of the new law is crucial for state security. The Constitutional Court of Riga has declared that individuals from Russia who possess ...

RIGA (Reuters) -In a Stalinist skyscraper which dominates the skyline of Latvia's capital, dozens of elderly Russians wait to take a basic Latvian language test as a proof of loyalty to a country ...

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 EU’s top court upheld a law mandating that institutions of higher education teach only in the Latvian language, with a few exceptions for exchange programs and foreign language courses. LUXEMBOURG ...

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 ...

RIGA — Last September, school children weren’t the only ones headed back to class in Latvia. The end of the summer vacation also saw some 3,500 Russian-speaking teachers go back to school to brush up ...

The reform aims to improve knowledge of the Latvian language among mostly Russian-speaking minorities, so as to advance their integration. As of September more classes will be taught in Latvian in the ...

This Latvian vocabulary book contains more than 3000 words and phrases which are grouped by topic to make it easier for you to pick what to learn first. On top of that, the index in the second half of ...