A probe into a Latvian officer who led mass killings of Jews during World War II has been dropped — for a third time. Herbert ...

European Film Promotion has selected 20 rising European producers for the 26th edition of its Producers on the Move ...

Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust remembrance center, condemned on Tuesday the decision by the Prosecution Office of ...

Poland will soon bolster its military deployment to Latvia to beef up the defense of frontline states in NATO’s east, said ...

The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from ...

The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...

Today, Latvia officially spat in the face of every Holocaust victim and survivor. In a decision as shameful as it is historically obscene, a Latvian court has exonerated Herberts Cukurs ...

Yad Vashem condemned Latvia’s Prosecution Office’s decision to close the investigation into Herberts Cukurs for his role in the Holocaust. The “Latvian war criminal and Nazi collaborator ...

It is planned to oblige citizens of Russia and Belarus to report their stay in Latvia. This is provided for by the rule, ...

T HIS SPRING, the Lithuanian hamlet of Lavoriskes is tranquil. No traffic disturbs the country road that leads from the ...

A model Volvo car made of Lego bricks is displayed during the Baltic Motor Show Riga "Auto 2025" in Riga, Latvia, April 27, 2025. (Photo by Edijs Palens/Xinhua) A modified Volkswagen car is displayed ...

Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death squad in German-occupied Latvia. In late 1941, he personally took part in mass murder at the Riga Ghetto and the nearby ...