The Vatican reported last week that during the past five years, 12,000 Roman Catholic priests have been killed or imprisoned or exiled by Communist regimes. Some specifics:¶ In the Soviet ...

With a tape, and much officiousness, they measure the distance between the demonstrators and the nearest public building, a school on the other side of the road ... Tatjana Zdanoka is Latvia's only ...

Latvia's conservative-nationalist party Nacionālā Apvienība (ECR) is leading the polls ahead of the European elections, beating even the ruling coalition Jaunā Vienotība (EPP), but with 16 ...

Latvia, a member of NATO and the European Union, has pushed for a strong global response to Russia's war in Ukraine. The country's 180-mile border with Russia has become tense as a result.

If Maj Deryugin had to defend his country he would fight for Latvia, even if there were Russians like him on the other side of the front line: "If a robber or a murderer comes to your house, no ...

Cyprus is on “the right side of history” when it comes to Ukraine and firmly supports sanctions on Russia, while in the Middle East it is working to be “part of the solution, not the problem,” ...

Army Europe headquarters welcomed Lt. Gen. Raimonds Graube, the Latvian Chief of Defense of Armed Forces, April 20, who met with Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of Army Europe, in Wiesbaden ...

ADAZI, Latvia - Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the commander of the U.S. European Command and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO Allied Command Operations, arrived at approximately noon on ...

Famed chef Jamie Oliver once labeled Latvia "Europe's hidden culinary gem" after eating at a restaurant in renowned Malpils Manor in the countryside outside of Riga. He believed it was the best ...

"I grew up speaking Russian, I am Russian by blood, but I don't associate myself with Russia or the Russian world," says Anatoly Deryugin, a major in the Latvian army. Anatoly, 43, is one of more ...