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.

Latvians have flocked to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to make Russian the second official language of the country. Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis was among the first to vote in the ...

Nearly a decade after regaining its independence, Latvia continues to wrestle with the issues of language and citizenship. RFE/RL correspondent Jeremy Bransten reports on current difficulties in ...

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 ...

A cacophony of languages fills Riga's historic center, as foreign tourists pack the cobblestone streets of the Latvian capital. But eavesdrop on residents and you're just as likely to hear Russian as ...

A UN human rights panel has said that Latvia's language rules are discriminatory because they limit jobs for Russian-speaking and other minorities. The UN Human Rights Committee's scrutiny of Latvia ...

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 ...

RIGA, Latvia (AFP) — Riga’s plans to impose Latvian as the main teaching language in minority schools has created tension among some of its ethnic Russian population, resurrecting a long-running ...

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.

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 ...