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03 Dec 2008

New coins honor chimney sweeps, basketball

Lucky Latvia is getting a million chimney sweeps—pictured on the back of a new 1-lat coin just released…

Columns

24 Nov 2008

Don’t dare say anything bad about the lat

During the next two weeks, a traveling exhibition on the 90-year history of Latvia’s security police will be…

News

21 Nov 2008

President accredits three new ambassadors

New Latvian ambassadors to China, Slovenia and Turkey have received letters of accreditation from President Valdis Zatlers, his…

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