Latvian capital scraps plans to charge Ghetto Museum about $12,000 after 10-year lease expires

Riga decides to begin charging Ghetto Museum about $12,000 after 10-year lease expires

As Latvian band releases second album, front-woman Sasha Lurje speaks about its inspirations, transition from klezmer, and its new album's 'dark love stories'

First Jewish house of worship built following the Holocaust, which only 200 of the country's 90,000 Jews survived, fulfills an essential function, but is subject to seasonal woes

Historical drama 'The Mover' tells the story of Žanis Lipke, who managed to hide and transport 60 Jews with limited means, while risking execution by occupying Nazi forces

Igor Rausis, 58, had raised suspicions by making an unlikely rise in rankings at an advanced age

Egils Levits vows to tackle 'illness' of inequality, affirms Baltic nation's alignment with western Europe in inaugural speech

European Court of Justice judge Egil Levits and his Latvian patriot parents were expelled from former Soviet Union in 1972 because KGB viewed them as threat

As borders are increasingly politicized, Latvian-born Canadian writer takes readers to 'Immigrant City'