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 ...

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, 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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...