The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is ready to acquire the minority stake at Parex banka, making an investment of EUR 100 million (LVL 70 million), Prime Minister Valdis ...

Next year the budget priority of Riga Municipality is going to be providing social aid, Mayor of Riga Janis Birks (For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK) informed the media representatives after a meeting ...

Latvian Football Federation has launched internal investigation following last week's Latvian Higher League (Virsliga) Winter Cup match between Babite and Lithuanian football club Marijampole Suduva, ...

Former world cycling champion Romans Vainsteins has become the head coach of the Latvian national bicycle road racing team, as Latvian Cycling Federation informed LETA. All members of the Cycling ...

The motion to remove Krotovs came from six opposition council members regarding the situation with the Stendes nami company. Due to significant debt, the company’s buildings in all of Stende are on ...

The exhibition "Zoo Photography. Kaunas. The Last Decade of the Soviet Era" will take place in Vilnius from February 11 till April 3, 2011, in Lithuanian National Art Gallery, as its statement says.

31 thousand foreigners are residing in Lithuania at the moment. The majority of them are EU citizens. However, it has been noticed that more and more Africans and Asians are becoming interested in ...

Estonia has completed the decade-long clean-up of one of Europe's most hazardous radioactive waste dumps on the Baltic coast, an official in charge of the operation said Monday. "It is completely safe ...

The Riga Regional Court has accepted Ventspils Mayor Aivars Lembergs' claim against the Prosecutor General's Office and the Finance Ministry, in which he demands the two government institutions pay ...

On October 23rd, the Government of Estonia approved amendments to the state budget aimed at reshaping expenditure to meet the changed needs, reported BC governmental press service. While the overall ...

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, ...

Despite the crisis and market contraction, Latvian cosmetics producers are forging new development and production plans, the newspaper "Dienas Bizness" reports today. Although turnover on the ...