Articles of Interest
Melngailis hopes to improve U.S. diets with Latvian rye bread
By admin at 15 November, 2010, 5:33 pm
Latvia-born Professor Janis Melngailis of the University of Maryland in the United States hopes to improve Americans’ diets with rye bread made according to Latvian recipes, and has founded a company to distribute this kind of bread at shops in New York and Boston. “Everything here is upside-down. This is the richest country with the [...]
Read More >>Latvia’s Economy Expands for First Time Since Crisis as Austerity Pays Off
By admin at 15 November, 2010, 5:29 pm
Latvia’s economy expanded on an annual basis for the first time since the Baltic state was engulfed by the global financial crisis more than two years ago as the European Union’s toughest austerity measures pay off. Gross domestic product grew an annual 2.7 percent last quarter, the central statistics office in Riga reported today, citing preliminary data. [...]
Read More >>Latvian violin master Gidon Kremer and his group conjure enchantment and mystery in Berkeley
By admin at 10 November, 2010, 4:12 pm
BERKELEY — Touring with one’s own 24-piece chamber orchestra can’t be easy in this economy, but Gidon Kremer persists. The Latvian violinist, now 63 and still a man with a mission, brought his Kremerata Baltica — that’s what he calls his band — to Zellerbach Hall for a Sunday performance that grew ever more mysteriously [...]
Read More >>Latvia PM wins election
By admin at 7 October, 2010, 2:43 pm
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis agreed with coalition partners Sunday to work on forming a majority government after an election win which kept Latvia on the path of IMF-led austerity aimed at eventual euro zone entry. Latvian media quoted the election commission as saying after the Saturday vote that Dombrovskis’s Unity bloc won 33 seats while [...]
Read More >>Ruling Coalition Wins Latvia Vote
By admin at 7 October, 2010, 2:37 pm
RIGA, Latvia — Latvians appeared to have re-elected the governing coalition by a wide margin in parliamentary elections on Saturday, according to preliminary results, suggesting a broad public approval of the government’s handling of the financial crisis. The crisis has hit Latvia, a former Soviet republic and current European Union member, harder than any other country in Europe, [...]
Read More >>Latvia visit marks collaboration in support of U.S. forces
By admin at 21 September, 2010, 3:29 pm
09.14.2010 Collaboration between the Republic of Latvia and the Defense Logistics Agency has proven a great success for resupply operations in Afghanistan, the agency’s director said during a Sept. 13 visit to the Baltic nation. The agency’s relationship with the Latvian government has led to the successful shipment of supplies via the Northern Distribution Network, [...]
Read More >>Interest of Estonian businessmen towards Latvia is high
By admin at 21 September, 2010, 3:25 pm
The interest of Estonian businessmen towards Latvia is definitely the highest for the last six years, Inga Ulmane who is export project manager of GatewayBaltic, an export consulting and research company with operations in all three Baltic countries, told aripaev.ee This view is upheld also by trade statistics. According to Statistics Estonia, Estonian exports to [...]
Read More >>BALTIC BLOG: Latvia at a crossroads
By admin at 14 September, 2010, 5:27 pm
Occupying an important location “where east meets west” is one of the commonest – and cheesiest – claims in Central and Eastern Europe. Listen to marketing departments and development corporations and you could think the intersection between occident and orient lies anywhere from Augsburg to Almaty. Latvia’s claim to such a vital strategic position has [...]
Read More >>Nordea Markets: Latvia is moving towards brighter times
By admin at 7 September, 2010, 1:24 pm
Nordea Markets writes in its new economic outlook that the pick-up in Latvia’s economy has so far been fairly modest, but the cycle seems to have bottomed. Latvia’s economic recovery continued in Q2, with GDP growing quarter-on-quarter for the second consecutive quarter. Exports have so far been the main driver of the recovery, as expected, [...]
Read More >>Things To See In Riga, Latvia!
By admin at 24 August, 2010, 4:59 pm
Riga, the capital of Latvia is a very beautiful city, astonishing by it’s architecture and variety. The architectural inheritance of Germany can be clearly seen in the central part of the city, called “Old City”. There are lots of drinking establishments and restaurants and one of them to be mentioned is Lido. This is a network [...]
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