Latvia has agreed to halt distribution of a controversial history book, but human rights activists are questioning the sincerity of the move. In response to a campaign led by the Washington-based ...
Latvia defines itself on its own terms, apart from its history of being subjugated by Imperial Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Germany, and Russia. Latvian is now the language taught in schools, Latvia ...
LINCOLN — Through archival film footage and still photographs, “In Search of Freedom: Nebraskans from Latvia” marks the 100th anniversary of Latvia’s Declaration of Independence and traces the history ...
Step into the Latvian Museum in Rockville, and you almost could be in a 19th-century Latvian farmhouse. Detailed carvings adorn the wooden bed frame and table, and delicate embroidery draws color into ...
Across the Former Soviet Union in Latvia, Wartime History Present in Controversy over Soldiers’ Rall
The recent uproar in Latvia over a proposed march by Latvian veterans of the Nazi SS highlighted the ambivalent relationship the Baltic nation has with its World War II behavior. After last year’s ...
The impressive animated memoir “My Favorite War” revisits writer-director Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood in Soviet Latvia in the 1970s and ’80s. The result of a nine-year labor of love from a ...
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