About 550,000 ethnic Russians now living in Latvia do not have Latvian citizenship. Moscow says Latvia is discriminating against non-citizens. But Latvian officials say that Russian speakers simply ...

Latvia's parliamentary election on Saturday could widen a growing rift between the country's Latvian majority and its Russian-speaking minority over their place in society, amid widespread national ...

Latvia's current population of 1.9 million is forecast to drop to a million by mid-century, below Estonia's predicted to stand at 1.28 million (slightly down from the current 1.3 million), LSM reports ...

RIGA — Atis Sjanits has an unusual remit for an ambassador. The Latvian diplomat is not responsible for relations with another nation — but with his own country’s diaspora. Sjanits’ job is to respond ...

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 44, No. 4 (June 2016), pp. 411-417 (7 pages) Aims: Suicide rates in Latvia are among the highest in the EU. Among 18–25 year-old young adults, it is the ...