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16 Apr 2008
Some of my best friends are Latvian
Latvia is no longer the second largest Baltic country. That honor now belongs to the online social network draugiem.lv, whose number of users now surpasses the population of the country in which it is based. The portal began operating in 2004.
Sometime in the past several days, the number of registered users on draugiem.lv topped the 2.3 million mark. According to the Central Statistical Bureau in Rīga, Latvia’s estimated population in March was 2.269 million. And unlike…
01 Apr 2008
Democrats to decide presidential candidate at Gaŗezers
April! April! Hats off to cikaga.com, the Web site for Chicago-area Latvians, for breaking the story that the Democratic…
24 Feb 2008
As far as we know, Rīga is still in the running
Aw, no fair! The organizers of the online contest to choose city names that should appear in a special…
11 Nov 2007
Russia and the Baltics
One of America’s leading newspapers, The New York Times, is paying attention to the growing concerns a resurgent Russia poses…
31 Oct 2007
No way to raise a child
Here’s a new angle on the story about challenges faced by Western-born Latvians returning to their ancestral homeland: the locals…
03 Jul 2007
Order an iPhone, support a Latvian hacker
Looking for an iPhone, the hot new technological gadget from Apple? Then don’t click on the pop-up ad that appears…
08 Oct 2006
Picturing life in Ireland
The Latvach Sochaí Éireannach, otherwise known as the Latvian Society in Ireland, otherwise known as Latviešu Biedrība Īrijā, recently sponsored…
24 Sep 2006
A Michigan love story
Latvian-American man goes to Latvia, meets Latvian woman, she comes to visit him in America, then they get married. Simple,…
31 Aug 2006
It’s about time, Warren
Warren Buffett, the American billionaire who recently freed himself of some of his worldly goods in a well-publicized donation to…
07 Aug 2006
Translating the Koran
If reading the Koran is not on your list of things to do, then here’s a reason you might want…
06 Aug 2006
Top of the pops, Latvian style
Do you know the words and melodies to “Pūt, vējiņi!” or “Seši mazi bundzenieki”? Do you think everyone should? If…
24 Jul 2006
The end of days
Sure it’s summer in the northern hemisphere. And even though Jāņi was celebrated a month ago, we still can enjoy…
23 Jul 2006
Latvia’s place in the Universe
Sanita Kubliņa of Latvia, whose idol is President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, didn’t make the cut in this year’s Miss Universe competition.…
22 Jun 2006
Kentuckians for VVF
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga has not said she is interested in the job of general secretary of the United Nations. Her name…
21 Jun 2006
Strongmen in Rīga
It was 1:30 in the morning and, for some reason, we could not sleep. So we turned on the television…
16 Apr 2006
Murphy’s Law: A case study
Murphy’s Law (in Latvian, Merfija likums) states that if anything can go wrong, it will. A case in point is…
23 Mar 2006
The Balkans
Latvia should just quit the Baltic family and move in with the Balkans down south. Some folks already think the…
26 Feb 2006
Fly guys from Latvia
Those aerial acrobats you saw during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy? They were all…
24 Feb 2006
Hockey is their life
So what if the Latvian ice hockey team crashed and burned during the Winter Olympics? The fans love the team…
05 Feb 2006
Celebrity updates
The SuperBowl football championship saw plenty of attention in the days before the Feb. 5 contest in Detroit, Mich., between…
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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…
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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…
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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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