Riga’s plans to impose Latvian as the main teaching language in minority schools has created tension among some of its ethnic Russian population, resurrecting a long-running dispute with Latvia’s ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) – Like a detective at a crime scene, chief language inspector Antons Kursitis scans the lobby of a hotel in downtown Riga. He spots a brochure that lists hotel services in Russian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Latvia's Education Ministry will decide to gradually phase out Russian as a second foreign language in the country's schools, the ...

RIGA (Reuters) -In a Stalinist skyscraper which dominates the skyline of Latvia's capital, dozens of elderly Russians wait to take a basic Latvian language test as a proof of loyalty to a country ...

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RIGA, Latvia -- Latvia's translator-in-chief sits at his desk leafing through dog-eared French and English dictionaries trying to think of a Latvian word for "ombudsman." As chief terminologist at ...

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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined international journalism organisations in sounding the alarm over Latvia’s plans to remove the Russian language from public sector broadcasting, even ...

RIGA, January 17 (Itar-Tass) —— The referendum on a state status of the Russian language in Latvia planned for February 18 will not solve problems of the Latvian society, President Andris Berzins said ...

(MENAFN) In a significant move aimed at curtailing the presence of the Russian language, the Latvian parliament, known as the Saeima, has enacted amendments to the Credit Institution Law that will ...

RIGA, November 22 (Itar-Tass) — As many as 78,279 Latvian citizens took part in the national collection of signatures for awarding to the Russian language the status of the second official language in ...