Two Latvian soldiers were killed by insurgents in a battle in Afghanistan, as Airis Rikveilis, head of the defense minister's bureau, confirmed to LETA. This morning Sergeant Voldemars Ansevics and ...

On Tuesday, the Lithuanian Parliament has approved a draft law on vehicles taxation. Conservative MP Vitas Matuzas says that the new tax will be applied to luxurious cars. The draft law was favoured ...

Parex banka was doomed because of the activities of the bank's former owners, and it had to fail regardless of depositors' panic in the fall of 2008, as journalist Lato Lapsa said today, presenting ...

According to a survey, which purpose was to clarify what eye color the people of Latvia have, turned out that the most common eye color among citizens of Latvia is bluish-grey. The research, which was ...

Estonia-based construction company Merko Ehitus established a fully owned subsidiary in Ukraine called LLC Merko Ukraine, Merko Ehitus reports to NASDAQ OMX Tallinn. The establishing process was a ...

Today, the Cabinet of Ministers endorsed a bill, which envisages that Latvia's delegation to the Latvian-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission on economic, industrial, scientific and technical ...

Lithuania and Finland, two Nordic-Baltic sisters, are interconnected by long-ranging historical, political, and cultural links. It is great to state the fact that Lithuania and Finland have truly deep ...

According to the Estonian Foreign Ministry, it is a retaliation step against a similar decision made by Estonian authorities earlier. The ministry said that Franek Persidski is back in Estonia.

On the night from March 28 to March 29, at 3 p.m., Latvia turned clocks one hour forward and switched to daylight-saving time, reports LETA. According to Cabinet of Minister regulations, the switch to ...

Yesterday, in rector elections at the Latvian University of Agriculture, on the second ballot, the current Dean of the Department of Economy and Social Development, Professor Irina Pilvere, was ...

The Estonian Riigi Kinnisvara AS (State Real Estate Company, RKAS) severed the contract with consortium Koger & Partnerid AS and AS Eltron for designing and construction of buildings and electrical ...

The tobacco producer and retailer Scandinavian Tobacco has changed its brand name to British American Tobacco Latvia, according to the information from the Registry of Enterprises' Lursoft information ...