SKRUNDA, Latvia – Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million at an unusual auction Friday, officials said. The town formerly known ...

Vitor Urbano moved from London to Latvia for a quieter life before his child was born. Latvia offered better job opportunities for his partner and a lower cost of living. Despite fewer amenities, ...

SKRUNDA, Latvia -- Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million at an unusual auction Friday, officials said. The town formerly known ...

Ancient, elegant, and dripping with all the intrigue of a former Soviet city, Riga is one of Europe's most underrated ...

RIGA (Reuters) - A town left empty after the withdrawal of Soviet and Russian forces from the Baltic state of Latvia was sold at auction Friday for $3 million (1.92 million pounds). The buyer of the ...

It’s 6 PM in early autumn, and the streets of Old Town Riga are bustling. Diners fill outdoor patios lined with colorful flower boxes, and the sound of laughter floats past me in the cool evening ...

Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent based in Ukraine. Send an email to Nolan. SKRUNDA-1, ...