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.

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 (AP) – Like a detective at a crime scene, chief language inspector Antons Kursitis scans the lobby of a hotel in downtown Riga. He spots a brochure that lists hotel services in Russian ...

Latvia's language rules are discriminatory because they limit jobs for Russian-speaking and other minorities, a UN human rights panel said Thursday, calling on Riga to change the regulations. The UN ...

Latvia, a former member of the Soviet Union that shares a border with Russia, could move to restrict the Russian language in workplaces in the near future in a potential blow to Russian President ...

REUTERS - Latvians voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to reject a proposal to make Russian a second official language, in a referendum that has heightened ethnic tensions and sparked renewed criticism ...

Near-complete official results of a Latvian referendum showed that 75 percent of voters had rejected the plan to change the constitution and introduce Russian as an official second language in the ...

In Russian school number 22, in the Latvian capital Riga, Natalia Skestere is quietly breaking the law. Under legislation which came into force last September, 60% of lessons in the final three school ...

The Latvian government has decided to provide funding of over €4 million to provide Latvian language courses for Ukrainian refugees. Source: Delfi (a news website in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ...

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.