RIGA, Latvia — Contemporary Russian music is the rage in Latvia’s capital, but when listeners tuned in for their daily dose of dance tracks on a popular radio station, they got nothing but dead air.

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 ...

A cacophony of languages fills Riga's historic center, as foreign tourists pack the cobblestone streets of the Latvian capital. But eavesdrop on residents and you're just as likely to hear Russian as ...

Latvians have voted in a referendum on whether Russian should become their country’s second national language after Latvian. But Saturday’s vote in the Baltic state is likely to fail and widen 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 ...

Moscow has criticised Latvia for rejecting Russian as a second language in a highly emotive referendum that exposed the tensions lingering in the Baltic nation since its years under Soviet rule. The ...

In accordance with Riga’s so-called education reform, instruction at all government-run schools will be exclusively in the Latvian language starting from the 2021/2022 academic year MOSCOW, November ...

A UN human rights panel has said that Latvia's language rules are discriminatory because they limit jobs for Russian-speaking and other minorities. The UN Human Rights Committee's scrutiny of Latvia ...

Latvia, a former member of the Soviet Union that shares a border with Russia, could move to restrict the Russian language in workplaces in the near future in a potential blow to Russian President ...

RIGA, Latvia (AFP) — 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 ...