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- 6 September 2010
- Hostile Takeover
- Latvia’s crusading newspaper is sold for the second time in a year, this time into possibly unfriendly hands.
- By Aleks Tapinsh
- 27 July 2010
- The Other Side of the Latvian Coin
Latvian politicians who misinterpret the Soviet past risk falling into the same trap as Ukraine’s Yushchenko, a Russian-Latvian commentary argues.
- By BBC Monitoring
- 3 May 2010
- Minority Versus Minority
Before EU entry, Latvia’s Russian speakers were growing increasingly restive. Many remain unhappy today.
- By Andrew Cave
- 21 April 2010
- An Angry, Whimpering Tiger
- After years of roaring growth, Latvians look to fix blame for the pain of austerity.
- By Justin Vela
- 20 January 2010
- Endless Crisis
Latvians are mad as hell over shrinking benefits, and the courts are listening.
- By Martin Ehl
- 23 September 2009
- Wild and Crazy Guys
- In boom times, bankers are as excitable as the rest of us. But some politicians still don’t want to listen to the killjoy regulators.
- By BBC Monitoring
- 10 September 2009
- Cliffhanger Nation
- Riga makes a narrow escape from financial free-fall, but the drama's not over yet.
- By Pauls Raudseps
- 2 September 2009
- You Call This Optimism?
- It's looking like a meager autumn harvest on the Baltic, but it could have been worse.
- By Martin Ehl
- 6 July 2009
- Where There’s a Wall, There’s a Way
- Twenty years ago, the Baltic Way came like a giant arrow that struck the Berlin Wall from within.
- By Ojars Kalnins
- 10 June 2009
- Shrinking Economic Options
- Riga was pretty in pink for a day, but Latvians are glum as their country sinks deeper into the red.
- By Martin Ehl
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