RIGA, Latvia — Contemporary Russian music is the rage in Latvia’s capital, but when listeners tuned in for their daily dose of dance tracks on a popular radio station, they got nothing but dead air.

RIGA (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 country ...

Latvians have rejected a proposal for Russian to be made the country’s second official language, according to initial results from a referendum on the subject. With 50 per cent of votes counted, ...

UNESCO and the language-technology company Tilde have joined forces to strengthen multilingual inclusion across SIDS. The ...

REUTERS - Latvians voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to reject a proposal to make Russian a second official language, in a referendum that has heightened ethnic tensions and sparked renewed criticism ...

Latvia, a former member of the Soviet Union that shares a border with Russia, could move to restrict the Russian language in workplaces in the near future in a potential blow to Russian President ...

Latvians have voted in a referendum on whether Russian should become their country’s second national language after Latvian. But Saturday’s vote in the Baltic state is likely to fail and widen the ...

Latvia's language rules are discriminatory because they limit jobs for Russian-speaking and other minorities, a UN human rights panel said Thursday, calling on Riga to change the regulations. The UN ...

RIGA, Latvia — Contemporary Russian music is the rage in Latvia’s capital, but when listeners tuned in for their daily dose of dance tracks on a popular radio station, they got nothing but dead air.

RIGA, Latvia — Latvian voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to give official status to Russian, the mother tongue of their former Soviet occupiers. About one-third of the Baltic country’s 2.1 ...