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Two years after Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the crackdown on independent media and journalists in Russia has intensified, leading to the collapse of press freedom. Today, the vast majority of Russia’s independent journalists work in exile.

The Kremlin’s intelligence agencies have learned from their mistakes over the past two years | International

FTX investors sued Sullivan & Cromwell, accusing the law firm of aiding illicit schemes that helped advance a multi-billion dollar fraud before the

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs, Prime Minister Evika Siliņa, Seimas Speaker Daiga Mieriņa and Foreign Minister Krišjānis Kariņš have called on residents to express solidarity with the people of Ukraine and join in a minute of silence on Saturday, 24 February, at 09:00.

Riga. The Latvian national airline airBaltic announces that it has exceeded 150 thousand flights operated with the Airbus A220-300 aircraft, since introducing this model to its fleet in 2016....

It's impressive, in a way, how the media can whip up a frenzy over its own tales of how Alexei Navalny, a Russian has-been, died.

A representative of the enterprising Norwegian football scouting agency, Boss Agency, William Larsen Nyaborg, has spent three days from 9th to 11th Feb in the Effia constituency of the Western Region looking for talents that would “potentially grow into the next crop of global football stars.”

Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics tells RFE/RL's Georgian Service that the narrative needs to change from supporting Ukraine "for as long as it takes" to "we are going to support Ukraine to victory."

European Parliament groups will choose their top city picks to host the EU’s future anti-money laundering authority (AML...

Dr. Maris Freiman, of Hayward, passed away February 14, 2024, at Tamarack Health Medical Center in Hayward, following a lengthy battle with esophageal and other kinds of cancer. He was born September 13, 1939, in Riga, Latvia, the son of Edvins and Lily Freimanis. At the onset of World War 2, he and his mother were able to escape the terror of the Russians by escaping to Germany. While there, his mother studied veterinary science while Maris attended school in Giesendorf. In 1949, with the help ...