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Latvia (/ˈlɑːtviə/ or /ˈlætviə/; Latvian: Latvija [ˈlatvija]), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Republika), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Since its independence, Latvia has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Vilnius and Warsaw are gradually moving to a new stage of better relations and hopes that Lithuanian politicians will solve the highly contentious issue of the spelling of Polish names in Lithuanian personal documents.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis promised that the Lithuanian government would provide greater support for ethnic Lithuanians living in Poland and other neighboring countries as he visited Punsk, a town in northeastern Poland, on Tuesday.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis met with his Latvian counterpart on the eve of Baltic prime ministers, expressing hope that the neighboring state would support the agreement on liquefied natural gas, which would pave way for applying for European Union (EU) support for gas inf...
Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis hopes to reach full stop in the Friday's negotiations among the Baltic prime ministers in an effort to ensure European support to the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. In his words, if the discussions end in failure, Lithuania will seek to e...
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is meeting with his Latvian counterpart, Inara Murniece, in the Latvian seaside resort of Jūrmala on Thursday to discuss the positions on the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) under construction in Belarus.
The prime ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will this week attempt to agree on a common liquefied natural gas (LNG) market to be able to apply for support from the European Union (EU).
BALTRON Squadron Exercise 17/2 of the Baltic unit of warships, BALTRON, will take place in Lithuania's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea this week.
Latvijos mažmenininkė „Rimi Latvia“ 2016 metais uždirbo 32,079 mln. eurų pelno – 17 proc. daugiau nei 2015-aisiais, teigiama bendrovės ataskaitoje Latvijos įmonių registrui.
Palangoje atostogaujančių poilsiautojų įpročiai keičiasi. Mažėja rusų, o ir tie, kurie čia atvažiuoja, yra kultūringesni. J. Basanavičiaus gatvėje mažiau triukšmo, mažiau peštynių. Vasaros sostine tituluojamo kurorto verslininkai svarsto, kas galėjo lemti šiuos pokyčius.
After Latvia's foreign minister restated the country's plans not to block electricity generated by the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP), Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius does not rule out the move is due to economic reasons.
Today, the Baltic Focus events dedicated to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are launching within the programme of the industry days of the International Odessa Film Festival, the Lithuanian Film Centre wrote in a press release.
Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, the European Union's (EU) ambassador to Russia, says he will shortly end his diplomatic service in Moscow and engage in analytical work and politics upon return to Lithuania, listing the demographic crisis as the key challenge in his home country.
Artėjantį savaitgalį Vilniuje vyks pirmą kartą Baltijos šalyse rengiamos vandens slidinėjimo varžybos, kurių dalyviai kovos ne tik dėl titulų, bet ir dėl Europos reitingo taškų.
Suomijoje vykstančio Baltijos jaunių (iki 17-os metų) vaikinų futbolo taurės turnyro antrose rungtynėse penktadienį Lietuvos rinktinė 0:3 (0:2) pralaimėjo Latvijos ekipai ir patyrė antrą nesėkmę.
Lithuania this year lost four positions and ranks 40th among 127 countries in the latest Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is coming to Latvia and Lithuania next week.
The Vilnius Regional Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by a lawyer of Evaldas Rimasauskas, a Lithuanian national who is wanted in the United States on large-scale fraud charges, and upheld the Vilnius District Court's decision to extend his arrest for three months.
For five decades, Lithuanians were not allowed to talk about deportations and imprisonment in labor camps, says Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.
Police of the Lithuanian port city of Klaipeda imposed a 75-euro fine upon a Latvian citizen who wore a T-shirt with Soviet symbols in public.
Lithuanian law-enforcement officials have suspended their pre-trial investigation into the hacking of the system of the Baltic News Service's Vilnius bureau, saying that they are unable, at least for now, to track down the hacker, who used a system that ensures anonymity of the user.
