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  • Europe News at 1200GMT, Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a small group of countries, says special U.N. envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland.
    Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:03:23 GMT
  • Connecting Latvia and Galicia..., Bernardo Lopez is the Spanish consul and representative in Latvia, the second most important person after the ambassador.
    Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:53:58 GMT
  • Latvian gov't loses largest party, risks collapse, Latvia's government teetered on the verge of collapse Wednesday after the largest party pulled out of the center-right coalition over disputes about how to handle the country's recession - the deepest in the European Union.
    Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:50:55 GMT
  • Horsham Scouts get cycling - to Latvia SCOUTS from Horsham are..., SCOUTS from Horsham are spending 24 hours cycling to Latvia - without leaving their home town.
    Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:47:59 GMT
  • Dangerous history-rewriting in Latvia | Efraim Zuroff, This week I took part in a protest against those who paint the Waffen-SS as heroes.
    Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:41:35 GMT
  • Houdini and immigration: Latviaa s solution for economic development, A very strong characteristic of the Baltic people is how they are united about preserving their cultural heritage, language, and society resulting in a specific form of nationalism.
    Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:28:12 GMT
  • A travel writer's 14 favorite hotels, I can still see that Oregon lighthouse clearly. The cabin by the lightning field in New Mexico too.
    Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:16:16 GMT
  • Hundreds in Latvia commemorate Waffen SS units, About 1,000 people took part in a flower-laying ceremony Tuesday to commemorate Latvians who fought in two Waffen SS divisions on the side of Nazi Germany, while hundreds of police kept angry ethnic Russian protesters at bay.
    Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:54:31 GMT
  • Nazi-hunter calls for ban on Latvian SS commemoration, The world's leading Nazi hunter called Monday for the authorities in Latvia to enforce a ban on a controversial commemoration of local Waffen-SS troops due to take place on Tuesday.
    Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:47:15 GMT
  • SS veterans set to parade in Latvia, Row over SS veterans' parade in Latvia puts the spotlight on Tory links to eastern Europe's far right Nazi sympathisers A picture showing SS soldiers is laid on flowers at the Freedom monument in Riga.
    Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:11:17 GMT
  • The new economics of boundaries and citizenship, For India's best-known painter M F Hussain, it's the freedom to paint, the choice of living a life free from threat.
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:03:52 GMT
  • Riga Council in civil rights attack..., Tradition denied: The WWII Latvian Legion Day commemoration will have to find another venue, as Riga City Council has agreed to block all assemblies from gathering around the Freedom Monument on March 16.
    Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:47:33 GMT
  • Latvia eases immigration restrictions in bid for cash infusion, Latvia is desperate to attract new investors that could help the recovery of the countrya TMs weak economy.
    Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:40:51 GMT
  • Latvia: Searching for a new path to economic growth, Flooded with Scandinavian liquidity during the boom years, Latvia has suffered the most severe bust in the EU and bankers are devising a new business model while clearing up the consequences of the old one.
    Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:08:32 GMT
  • Latvian ruling party to appeal against ban on Waffen SS march, Latvia's ruling New Era party said on Sunday it would appeal against a decision by the Latvian capital's legislature to ban a demonstration by Waffen SS veterans and their supporters on March 16.
    Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:38 GMT
  • UK in European house price top five, UK housing market outperformed much of Europe in 2009, while Baltic states saw prices plummet by 50%, according to latest Rics housing report Homes for sale in France, Germany and the Netherlands have taken a relatively small hit from the world economic downturn.
    Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:40:37 GMT
  • Latvia: No victory yet, no defeat either, Some comments or, perhaps better, some additions to Ed Hugh's piece of February 26, - To Soon To Cry "Victory" on Latvia? ' by Morten Hansen , Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Thanks a lot to Ed for welcoming some comments/further arguments on the debate on whether Latvia can indeed cry "Victory" in the internal devaluation battle that it is ...
    Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:40:46 GMT
  • Latvian migrant workers planting lettuces, They are exploited and overworked, yet the number of Latvians coming to England has risen faster than any other group Moez Nathu came to Britain in 1997 as an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
    Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:41:34 GMT
  • Despite slump, Latvia avoids 'inevitable' devaluation, With radical austerity and IMF loans, Latvia has avoided devaluation. Is devaluation ever inevitable? Snow covered Riga's Old City on Feb.
    Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:29:24 GMT
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  • Latvia and Greece—Baltic thaw, Aegean freeze, Journalist and Baltic/Eastern Europe expert Edward Lucas discusses the competing EU economic crises. Lucas writes for the Economist and is author of "The New Cold War." [February 25 2010]
  • You Think Greece Has Problems—Latvia's Road to Serfdom, Insight into the scale of Latvia's current economic crisis., by Michael Hudson and Jeff Sommers. Michael Hudson is a former Wall Street economist and now a Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), and president of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET). Jeffrey Sommers is co-director of the Baltic Research Group at ISLET, and visiting faculty at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. [February 15 2010]
  • Estonia Counts her Blessings, Reflections on the survival of Estonia, an essay by Jüri Estam. Juri Estam is a journalist, author, and commentator, member of the Estonia Institute for Human Rights, recipient of several national Estonian awards, and a political independent. [February 23 2008]
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Russia's press and Russian politicians continue to be up in arms over the film about the Soviet-Nazi conspiracy in launching the subjugation of the Baltic states. Visit Soviet Story to find out more about the film, now available to order on DVD.
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Silvija's Trips

  • July 1977, Silvija's first trip! A pivotal experience whose significance has only deepened with time.
  • Silvija's Story, Latvian strength and love of family in the face of Soviet oppression and hopelessness.

Peters' Trips

  • October 1996, Autumn colors in Rīga and Kuldīga.
  • August 1997, Cemetery service for the victims of Soviet deportation; Mordanga, and Rīga.
  • October 1994, Highlights of Peters' roots-seeking trip.
  • July 1995, A whirlwind tour: Aglona, Bauska, Brīvdabas (Ethnographic) Museum, Jaunmoku Castle, Jelgava, Liepāja, Rīga, and Rundāle's Palace.
  • August 1993, Riga and Usma.
  • December 1997-New Year's, Latvia twice in one year!
  • Peters' Story, Collapse of the Soviet Union brings an unhoped-for opportunity.
  • October 1992, Peters' first trip! From his grandfather's water mill to goat-walking in Riga.
  • December 2002, Wandering (lots of pictures) far and wide in winter Rīga.

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