Big on history, architecture and – latterly – fine food, this often overlooked city is ideal for a budget weekend away ...

VILNIUS, May 13. /TASS/. The Riga City Council on Friday voted to start preparations required to remove a monument to Soviet soldiers in the city’s Victory Park, the Latvian Radio and Television ...

The Riga Cathedral, the largest in the Baltics, features remarkable medieval architecture and an impressive organ, regularly used in concerts. A must-see is the Soviet-era Latvian Academy of ...

Under Soviet rule until 1991 ... Between the end of the First World War and the start of the Second, Riga underwent something of a building frenzy, resulting in a gorgeous Art Deco quarter ...

RIGA, October 26. /TASS/. Unidentified persons vandalized the monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated the Latvian capital of Riga from Nazis, LETA agency said on Saturday. According to the ...

An appeal to the West for help against the Soviet repression of Jews and restrictions on emigration to Israel has been made by Jewish students of Riga, Latvia, the Sunday Observer reported.