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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Latvia on Saturday voted in a referendum on whether Russian should become the Baltic country's second national language, a poll that is likely to fail and widen the rift in an ...

In the Baltic state of Latvia, Russian speakers make up more than a third of the population. But despite their significant presence in the country, they complain they are subject to discrimination by ...

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 ...

Latvians have flocked to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to make Russian the second official language of the country. Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis was among the first to vote in the ...

Meanwhile ranking Latvian officials are for the Latvian language being the only official language in the country RIGA, November 22 (Itar-Tass) — As many as 78,279 Latvian citizens took part in the ...