Vike-Freiberga on Sunday night said she is dismayed that over 20 years after the Freedom Barricades, Latvia will see a national vote on language. “I would have imagined that we, in peaceful coexistence, had in 20 years resolved these matters and put them aside,” she commented. The ...

18-20, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Rasmussen had meetings with the Lithuanian leadership in Vilnius: Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, PM Andrius Kubilius, Defense Minister Rasa Jukneviciene and Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis. R...

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivered on Jan. 18 an emergency TV address dedicated to the matter; Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and Riigikogu speaker Ene Ergma also expressed a negative opinion, saying that politicians who do not respect the constitution and the European human rights convention...

authorities announced on Jan. 19, reports AFP. The indictments sparked retaliation from the ‘Anonymous’ hacktivist group, who announced in a tweet that they had downed the Web sites of the U.S. Justice Department, Universal Music, and the Recording Industry Association of America. ...

19 in Egypt, five buses carrying tourists, including four Latvian and 19 Estonian citizens, were taken hostage for several hours, reports ERR. The Estonian tourism company Novatours confirmed that the incident took place, with the Estonians and Latvians on one of their chartered buses at the tim...