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We've added another window into the 1920's: a subscription installment of "The World and Its People," featuring illustrated country profiles of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. We had no idea wild bison roamed Lithuania! latvians.com/?en/CFBH/WorldAndItsPeople  2024 Nov 04
We've upscaled and sharpened renowned Soviet-era photographer Naum Granovsky's color postcard album of Rīga. latvians.com/?en/CFBH/RigaSoviet/  2024 Oct 14
Content we added during our refresh of Latvians.com includes a list of 272 individuals from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania "wanted" by the Kremlin—many of them current and former government representatives or officials—extracted from a Kremlin list of 96,752 (!) total names. latvians.com/?en/News/level-040-ruwanted_RU.csv  2024 Sep 24
After a recent inquiry about our "mittens for NATO" collection, we 4X AI-upscaled all our mitten images. We hope you find they are a much-improved viewing expertise. latvians.com/?en/CFBH/Zimes/zimes-20-natomittens.ssi  2024 Sep 24
We've also added the rest of Peters' October 2004 travelogue featuring Brethren and Rainis Cemeteries, Viestura and George Washington parks, the export port and Pētersala neighborhood, a day in the country, plus the usual Old Rīga and left bank strolls—and RIP Soviet monument to the not-liberators. latvians.com/?en/Trips/Peters_200410/  2024 Aug 21
Nearly 20 years after the fact (October, 2004!), we finally caught up to completing our "Along the No.11 Tram Line" photo feature. latvians.com/?en/Trips/Features-RigaTram/  2024 Aug 21
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