Latvian and American law enforcement agencies were studying a project in which current US President Donald Trump and Russian composer Igor Krutoy planned to build a hotel and entertainment complex in Riga. “They wanted to build a “Baltic Las Vegas,” says the British newspaper The Guardian (translation...
On November 30, in the center of Riga, near the Freedom Monument, an event was held for the first time in memory of the victims of the Holocaust: exactly 75 years ago, on November 30 and December 8, 1941, 25 thousand Jews were shot in the Rumbula forest. Since the beginning of the occupation of Latvia by fascist Germany, about 70 thousand local Jews have been killed here; ...
On Saturday, June 20, a modest and quiet gay pride parade took place in the Latvian capital Riga. Mostly young people took part in it, but there were also older representatives. Unlike gay pride parades in other large European cities, such an event in Riga ...
In the capital of Latvia, Riga, a statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin crucified on a cross appeared in the courtyard of the former KGB building, local television reported. As the Latvian TV channel TV5 reports, the installation with the crucified “Putin” is one of the exhibits of the exhibition, which takes place in…
The European Commission says neither Ukraine nor Georgia will receive a visa-free regime with the EU at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga later this month. Speaking in Brussels after the European Commission released its annual visa regime report with both ...
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the Riga Eastern Partnership summit, which will take place on May 21-22, 2015, “anti-Russian.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich stated this during a briefing. “Russia has a very negative attitude towards this (the summit - ed.). We will be monitoring...
More than 120 units of various military equipment, including tanks and armored vehicles, were delivered by sea from the USA to Latvia. Military equipment was delivered to Riga as part of the Atlantic Resolve mission. Among the delivered combat vehicles are M1A2 Abrams tanks and M2A3 armored vehicles ...
German artist Kurt Fleckenstein, who calls himself an “extreme fighter for democracy and tolerance,” will publicly wash an armored vehicle damaged in Ukraine for two weeks in Riga. At the same time, he will be dressed in the Soviet “Beryozka” camouflage, which symbolizes “protest against Russian hegemony...