CLEVELAND, Ohio - When quickly looking into the Latvian Cultural Garden from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, a first glance may reveal a few boulders upon a hill with some rudimentary carvings. But at a ...

The Minister of Education, M. Keninsch, has issued a new order relating to the minority secondary and professional schools, which provides: (1) That the secondary and professional schools of the ...

The Jews in Latvia have a cultural autonomy secured by special law and by the existence of a Jewish Educational Department in the Ministry of Education, declared Professor Stroibeck, Latvian Minister ...

IT WAS AS though the communities lived both on top of each other and entirely apart. Andrejs Vasiljevs, who runs a digital-translation company in Riga, recalls the divided schedule of his school in ...

Before moving to St. Cloud, Maruta Lietiņš Ray experienced loss, captivity, learning new languages and immigrating to a new country. Born Maruta Lietiņš in 1940 in Latvia, a region soon to be rolled ...

Pennsylvanian Andris Grunde’s recent vacation included a celebration of Latvian culture in St. Paul and a day trip to St. Peter. Grunde found his drive recently through the Minnesota River Valley ...

Latvia is not the only Baltic country struggling to integrate Russian-speakers. Alar Karis, Estonia’s president, recently criticised his own government for alienating Russian-speakers, nearly 30% of ...

Flow director Gints Zilbalodis received a hero’s welcome when he returned to his native Latvia yesterday after winning the country’s first-ever Academy Award. A crowd awaited him and the film’s ...

The arched sculpture, which is a granite boulder, represents the passage of immigrants from Latvia to the United States through a silhouette of a woman in traditional folk dress in the Latvian ...