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Latvians again dot North American hockey
January 13, 2008
With the turn of the New Year, North American hockey is at mid-season. This year 10 players from Latvia are playing professional hockey and another four are playing with top tier junior teams in either Canada or the United States.
Even though hockey is Latvia’s No. 1 sport, the Latvian émigré community in North America has been slow to embrace the game. A few Latvians in Canada and the United States do attend games and cheer their players.…
Čikāgas piecīši has secure spot in diaspora’s history
November 11, 2007
One cannot write about the history of the Latvian-American community, or even the worldwide Latvian diaspora, and not mention the…
Latvian hockey, and Latvian hockey fans, come to Ireland
September 27, 2007
With the arrival of at least 20,000 Latvians in Ireland over the past several years, it is hardly surprising that…
Latvia’s hockey juniors make their mark in Canada
March 07, 2007
Last summer a record number of six hockey players from Latvia were drafted by Canadian Hockey League major junior teams…
Iļģi marks 25 years of pushing folk’s boundaries
December 14, 2006
If you were to ask Latvians what exactly makes them distinct, many might answer along the lines of “Latvian culture.”…
The coalition is dead; long live the coalition
October 07, 2006
Voters in Latvia who went to bed Oct. 7 without having taken a last look at parliamentary election results woke…
Latvian voters worldwide head to ballot box
October 06, 2006
Voters in Belgium, Ireland and the United Kingdom—many of whom are recent immigrants—offset losses elsewhere and helped stem a decline…
Party Web sites improve, but could be better
September 27, 2006
Voters using the World Wide Web to gain information about the Oct. 7 Latvian parliamentary election have more resources available…
Blogger: don’t vote, but push for change
September 11, 2006
Nearly a quarter of voters in Latvia said in mid-August that they did not know for which one of 19…
Latvia makes its lacrosse debut
July 28, 2006
Latvia recently made its world debut in yet another athletic competition, this time in a sport not all that familiar…
Books on Latvian art become more available
June 26, 2006
Although they aren’t in abundance, more resources are becoming available, in Latvian and English, in Latvia and abroad, that can…
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07 May 2008
Latvia avoids relegation in hockey championship
With a 3-0 victory over Slovenia, the Latvian squad has managed to avoid relegation at the close of…
News
06 May 2008
500 diaspora Latvians to be among song festival performers
About 500 Latvians from abroad—including a folklore ensemble from Luxembourg that accounts for nearly 10 percent of the…
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05 May 2008
Canada crushes Latvia 7-0 in ice hockey championship
After a thrashing by the Canadians in the 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship, Latvia’s ice hockey…
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