This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Vitor Urbano, a freelancer who moved from London to Latvia. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I moved from ...

I’ll be honest, before I started looking into living in Latvia I couldn’t have named a single city or located it on a map.

Skrunda-1 -built in 1963 in west Latvia - was one of them ... After nearly two decades of disuse, Skrunda-1 is now a ghost town. What remains are derelict buildings, containing forgotten furniture ...

A temporary road bridge in the Latvian town of Salacgrīva has been closed for a week for maintenance, public broadcaster LSM reported. Salacgriva lies less than 20 kilometers from the Estonian border.

In addition to defense, the Baltics boast many shared values with the U.S., like a general reverence for freedom and a ...

A monument to the "butchers"' from three police battalions which belonged to the Latvian Waffen SS Legion was opened in the town of Bauska in Latvia on September 14. This a first monument built to ...

The new embassy building is located at 8/10 Pils Street. Construction began in 2023 and was completed in early 2025. The ...

The Latvian president has urged European countries to "absolutely" introduce conscription, as he conceded the continent was "quite weak" militarily. Edgars Rinkevics told Sky's Sunday Morning ...