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The three Baltic states will on Sunday connect to the European Union's power grid after they seamlessly severed Soviet-era ...

Latvian translator Valda Salmiņa (born in 1962) earned a bachelor’s degree in philology with a specialization in German ...

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Despite the frequent calls from Latvian authorities to dissuade residents from travelling to Russia, the number of visits to ...

A subsea cable connecting Latvia to Sweden’s Gotland island is the latest cable to be damaged in the Baltic Sea. Sweden ...

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Sweden’s coast guard boarded and seized the ship they allege damaged the underwater fibre optic cable between Latvia and Sweden in the Baltic Sea, in yet another incident sparking fresh fears of ...

Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC), said in a statement, adding it was seeking to contract a vessel to begin repairs. “The exact nature of the damage can only be determined once ...

The authorities have not yet made public the nature or the extent of the damage to the communications cable, which runs between Sweden and Latvia. The incident follows other suspected sabotage ...

An undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday, likely as a result of external influence, ...

The cable lies on the seabed at a depth of more than 50 meters, meaning the nature of the damage can only be determined after repair operations begin, Sprugaine added. The Latvian Defense Forces ...