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On May 29, tens of thousands of blondes will parade through the Latvian capital of Riga, as part of the city’s annual Go Blonde festival. airBaltic welcomes Go Blonde visitors to Riga on the airline’s ...
The President and Chairman of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia (AmCham) Ivars Slokenbergs sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Latvia Valdis Dombrovskis, Minister of Transport ...
Lithuania and Hungary are interested in accelerating the development of the Eastern Partnership, the countries share similar positions on many issues that the European Union and NATO focus on, and the ...
The Foreigners Registration Centre (FRC), managed by the Border Police Department in Pabrade has been operating for 15 years already. It was established in January, 1997, in the quarters of the Border ...
On February 4, Nord Stream Regional Advisor for the Baltic States, Romans Baumanis, was invited to participate in Diplomatic Economic Club (DEC) where he told in detail about the values of the ...
The permanent connection between mainland Estonia and Estonia’s largest island Saaremaa is not a priority for the state anymore as it is not an acute problem due to the improved ferry traffic ...
Estonian entrepreneur Jaanus Vihand recently launched a social network – MyHistro, which is expected to be more private, in-depth and, according to Vihand, less "tabloid-like" than the popular social ...
In the first half of this year 507,800 Lithuanian tourists went abroad. 55.5% of them were men and remaining 44.5% were women. Compared to the same period last year, the number of tourists going ...
Executives of two large exporters – the Parnu-based veneer manufacturing company Valmos and Estonia's largest producer of upholstered furniture Bellus Furniture, announced that currently the market ...
Lithuania's parliament Friday decided to push ahead with legislation imposing fines for the "public promotion of homosexual relations," a move gay-rights activists say could suppress gay pride parades ...
Representatives of the Riga Construction Board have inspected about 300 public buildings in Riga since the Zolitude tragedy. A total of 3,886 buildings were inspected in the first nine months of the ...
Former chairwoman and financial expert at Hansabanka (now – Swedbank) Ingrida Bluma, who is now a member of the board at the Partners in Ideas Fund (IPF), together with attorney Aldis Gobzems and ...