As Latvia prepares to celebrate the 98th Independence Day tomorrow, 98 foreigners, who have chosen Latvia as their home, share their reasons for loving Latvia, and invite you to visit during the centennial celebrations in 2018, or before! 'We had a sincere interest, how Latvia is seen by expatriates. Most of you might answer that Riga is the capital of Art Nouveau, we are well known for a great ice hockey team and fans, NBA star Kristaps Porzingis is Latvian and so is Maris Strombergs, the Olymp

What is Latvia actually marking on August 21? May 4, 1990, certainly served as a decisive borderline in the wake toward independent Latvia, by declaring the intention to restore a sovereign state. But in the historical circumstances, the declaration landed in a still-occupied territory, with all the attributes of Soviet power – the military, prosecutor’s office, militia, and KGB. So against all protests from Moscow, a transition period was boldly launched by the pro-independence legislator, the

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