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 ...

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 ...

RIGA - The biggest challenge for Latvia is to be able to learn to think like Europeans, Andris Suvajevs, chair of the Progressives' faction in the Saeima, said at the annual foreign policy debate in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acording to the reform, minority schools will teach most subjects in Latvian, just a few subjects (Russian language, literature) and "subjects linked to culture and history" will be studied in Russian ...