The head of state said he does not class people as “them and us” RIGA, December 5 (Itar-Tass) —— Latvian President Andris Berzins is against the Russian language as the second official language. As ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) – Like a detective at a crime scene, chief language inspector Antons Kursitis scans the lobby of a hotel in downtown Riga. He spots a brochure that lists hotel services in Russian ...

It takes the votes of at least half of the voters, that is over 770,000 citizens, for Russian to become the second official language in Latvia WARSAW, January 11 (Itar-Tass) —— Latvian must be the ...

The EU’s top court upheld a law mandating that institutions of higher education teach only in the Latvian language, with a few exceptions for exchange programs and foreign language courses. LUXEMBOURG ...

RIGA, May 8 (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 ...

The Constitutional Court of Latvia ruled against a challenge to a law that converted Russian-language schools to Latvian. It stated that the decision to make the school language Latvian was valid ...