The Latvian Roman Catholic Church has nominated Zbignes Stankevics as the new Archbishop of Riga, because the current Archbishop Janis Pujats will be 80 years old this year, whereas, under the ...

Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of the day when the Soviet authorities deported over 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia; Estonia marks it by hoisting mourning flags and with many events, ...

This is it, my friends! It happened! We finally found someone willing to take over and continue our business. In the year of our 25th anniversary, in June – precisely the month the first ever issue of ...

The Constitutional Protection Bureau and the Security Police have also inquired about the joint-stock company Diena and newspaper "Dienas Bizness" takeover deal, as the newspaper Diena writes today.

Estonia’s state-owned energy giant Eesti Energia reached an agreement over the conditions of the construction contract of a new power station with Alstom; the new plant will be built near Narva, next ...

Businessman Viesturs Koziols has bought a 51% stake in the joint-stock company Diena, as Koziols told reporters at a press conference yesterday. Koziols did not reveal how much he had paid for the ...

Ventspils nafta terminals (VNT), a subsidiary of the joint-stock company Ventspils nafta saw its turnover decrease 8.4% during the first two months of the year 2011, as the spokesperson for Ventspils ...

Latvia's belated adoption of the euro may in some sense be more beneficial than Estonia's fast-track changeover in 2011, as Latvia will join with the worst of the financial crisis and bailout packages ...

On February 20, decoration ceremony for the personnel of the 6th shift of the National Support Unit (NSU-6) will be held at the Logistics Command, the Defense Ministry reports. NSE-6 included 22 ...

Estonian Agriculture Minister Helir-Valdor Seeder met the director general of the Ukrainian fisheries board today to pave the road toward more export of fish products to the large non-EU market. The ...

The EU launched on 16 July 2010 the European e-Justice portal – an electronic one-stop-shop for access to justice throughout the EU. The web site intends to benefit citizens, businesses, lawyers and ...

Prime Minister of Latvia Valdis Dombrovskis (New Era) believes that economic recovery in the world and Europe will start slightly sooner than in Latvia, as the premier said in an interview to the ...