Ligo! festival in Great Britain, held at the Straumeni manor of the Daugavas Vanagi organization, brought together a total of 2,843 Latvians from all over the country this year, Linda Burda, ...

About 15 years ago 12 European Communities’ member states (MS) agreed to include educational sphere into the general common market regulatory issues. Thus, Maastricht Treaty of 1992, which entered ...

An elaborate publicity stunt by Swedish mobile phone company Tele2 involving a faked meteorite strike in a Latvian meadow has provided a new case study on how a marketing campaign can backfire, the ...

The most expensive car, sold in Lithuania in 2013, is a Bentley Mulsanne sedane, which costs 776,000 litas, reports LETA, referring to the business news portal Verslo Zinious. The second most ...

It will emerge already in January if Baltic states’ largest sporting goods chain Sportland can find new financers and owners, will end up with bankruptcy or whether banks will take over the company ...

In March 2010, new car registrations in Latvia dropped by 22%, which was the fifth steepest decrease in Europe, according to the latest report by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association ...

Maksim Bakiyev, son of overthrown Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, left Latvia this morning, according to information received by LETA from reliable sources. His destination is not known, but it is ...

Estonian economy minister Juhan Parts signed last week a decision of reforming state-owned electricity main grid company Elering into a public limited company called Elering AS, LETA/Eesti Päevaleht ...

Ventspils Mayor Aivars Lembergs and members of the Lembergs family have been co-owners of dozens of the largest Ventspils enterprises since the 1990s, according to testimony by attorney at law Gints ...

Estonian Let’s Do It voluntary nature cleaning action is finding followers from everywhere in the world and 30 volunteers from seven countries will arrive this weekend to Estonia to exchange ...

Large-scale entrepreneur Harry Männil, whom the Simon Wiesenthal centre accused of war crimes but who was cleared of any wrongdoing, died on Monday at the age of 89 in San Jose, Costa Rica, ...

Parliamentary committee for European affairs, which thought over the Lithuania’s convergence programme for 2008 on Friday, has not specified possible euro adoption date yet. "It is impossible to ...