British authorities have identified a woman from Latvia who was found stabbed to death on an East London street, as well as her mother, whose body was found in their burning home.

Meanwhile, a man who was reportedly the woman’s estranged husband was also found in the home and taken to a hospital, where his condition is listed as stable. He has been placed under arrest, according to the Metropolitan Police of London.

The woman has been identified as 40-year-old Svetlana Zolotovska, according to an Aug. 16 Metropolitan Police press release. She was found on Stansfield Road the morning of Aug. 12 with stab wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen. Zolotovska was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her mother, 70-year-old Antonia Belska, was found on the ground floor of their burning home on Leamouth Road after officers were led to the address upon making inquiries, according to the Metropolitan Police. Belska died from stab wounds to the chest and abdomen.

A search of the home found a 42-year-old man, identified in British media reports as Zolotovska’s estranged husband Sergei Zolotovsky, in the loft area of the home. He had numerous injuries and had apparently attempted suicide.

Zolotovsky, a self-employed engineer originally from Latvia, has been reported to authorities at least four times over domestic disturbances, British media reported.

The couple was going through divorce proceedings, but were in a dispute over the house, according to British media reports.

The Zolotovskys had moved to the United Kingdom eight years ago, British media reported. Belska had arrived three months ago to stay with her daughter, police said.

Police are continuing their investigation and are asking for the public’s assistance.

“We know the younger victim left her address in east London at 07:20 hours to walk to work,” Detective Chief Inspector Phil Rickells said. “She was attacked at the bus stop in Stansfeld Road. We have traced several witnesses but would like to speak to anyone who may have been in the area at that time.”

A pair of Metropolitan Police officers have traveled to Latvia to pursue the investigation, according to London’s Evening Standard newspaper.

An animation film created by a director from Latvia has won a prize during the Hiroshima 2010 festival, organizers have announced.

Spārni un airi (Wings and Oars), which runs almost six minutes, is one of a half-dozen animation films presented with the Special International Jury Prizes. The film, released in 2009, is directed and produced by Vladimirs Ļeščovs.

Judges said Spārni un airi is a “nice and strong homage about the flying world in all its different aspects, done with aquarel drawings that look authentic.”

The film also won last year’s “Lielais Kristaps” award for the best animation film in Latvia.

Spārni un airi was not the only Baltic film to receive accolades in Hiroshima. Tuukrid vihmas (Divers in the Rain), an animation film by directors Priit Pärn and Olga Pärn of Estonia, won the Hiroshima Prize, organizers announced.

The Hiroshima 2010 animation festival ran from Aug. 7-11.

A new online and print publication, aimed at informing Latvians abroad about the upcoming parliamentary election in the homeland, has been unveiled by a group in Sweden.

Titled Desmitnieks—a reference to the Oct. 2 election for the 10th Saeima—the publication is backed by the Latvian Aid Committee of Sweden (Zviedrijas Latviešu palīdzības komiteja) and is edited by Austra Krēsliņa.

Desmitnieks will be short-lived. One issue per week, starting Aug. 16, is promised up to the election, and then one or two issues after to provide analysis of voting results. The publication will appear in print as a supplement to the European exile newspaper Brīvā Latvija and online at www.desmitnieks.lv, Krēsliņa told Latvians Online in an e-mail.

Each edition, she said, will have the same structure: a focus on a specific issue, a short editorial commentary, a column by an independent author, and an explanation why the issue of the week was chosen.

“The idea is to offer Latvians living abroad independent information,” Krēsliņa said, “with the big goal of getting them to participate in this election and not be apathetic.”

In an editorial commentary, Desmitnieks notes that every vote counts, as has been shown in recent elections in the United States and Germany.

The first issue addressed by Desmitnieks is dual citizenship. Since July 1995, Latvia’s citizenship law does not allow people to become dual nationals. The responses of just five of the 13 political parties and coalitions fielding candidates in the Saeima election are included, with commentary by Nils Muižnieks of the University of Latvia.

The Latvian Aid Committee of Sweden is one of the oldest exile Latvian organizations. Formed in 1943, its initial purpose was to assist refugees from war-torn Latvia.