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Riga, Latvia: Latvian lawmakers on Thursday voted to nationalize the Moscow House building in the capital Riga, which previously served as a Russian cultural center and was considered a tool for Moscows soft power.

January 12, 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy just wrapped up a two-day tour of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. His trip is part of a wider diplomatic effort to shore up support for his country.

As I was reflecting on the war in Ukraine, it caused me to think back to when I was a young naval officer conducting Baltic Sea operations over 30 years ago. I wanted to consider what that experience taught me and what it meant for the present conflict.

Riga, Jan 11 (EFE).- Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday called on Ukrainian men of military age living abroad to contribute to the defense of the country against Russia, either as soldiers or as tax-paying workers. At a joint press conference in Tallinn with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Zelenskyy was asked whether he had …

He said Thursday that the Kremlin's forces would use the pause to rearm and regroup. Limited cease-fires have occasionally been proposed since Russia launched its full-scale war in February 2022 but have never taken hold.

VILNIUS: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for badly needed air-defence systems at the start of a tour of Baltic states Wednesday, warning that Western hesitation on aid for...

Childrens rights organisation Bris said its phone operators reported a huge uptick in the number of callers worried about war coming to Sweden

On 12 January 2024, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Krišjānis Kariņš, will meet with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, who is…

Moscow said Thursday it will seek retribution for Latvia’s confiscation of a building it owns in Riga.