RIGA - It is important that China stops supporting and "enabling the aggressor state" Russia in its war against Ukraine, Foreign Minister Baiba Braze (New Unity) stressed at the annual foreign policy debate at Saeima on Thursday.

An undersea data cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged early on January 26, the latest in a series of similar incidents in the Baltic Sea in which critical seabed energy and communications lines are believed to have been severed by ships traveling to or from Russian ports.

RIGA - A weak Russia is the best security guarantee for the entire Euro-Atlantic space, Foreign Minister Baiba Braze (New Unity) said at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Monday.

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen has called for more decisive action against Russia's "shadow fleet" following another incident in which a submarine cable in the Baltic Sea was damaged. "The shadow fleet is the main issue and the main problem we are dealing with,

Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Trump’s return as president, saying Ukraine looks forward to working with him. Russia’s casualties mounted to a record high of 434,000 in 2024, with 150,000 deaths, Ukraine’s commander in chief of the armed forces said. The toll is higher than the previous two years combined, he said.

About 1,500 Russians are now in exile, trying to start a fresh life while reporting on events in their homeland

Latvia's prime minister says her government has reached out to Sweden and other Baltic Sea allies in NATO for assistance as it investigates the cause of damage to an underwater fiber-optic data cable running to Sweden.

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Latvia borders Russia to its east and Russia ally Belarus to its southeast ... The battalion is stationed outside the town of Adazi, near Riga. Swedish soldiers disembarked in the port of Riga, Latvia, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, to join a Canadian-led ...

Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov said North Korea has already provided Russia with 120 self-propelled artillery guns and 120 multiple-launch rocket systems, with more to come.

Latvia needs to be prepared for any threats, said Commander of Latvian National Guard Aivars Krjukovs in an interview to “Ir” magazine, answering the question how real the risk of Russian invasion really is for Baltic States in the coming years.

As a young CIA agent working on cases linked to Russia, Ari Falk is used to dealing in danger but when he is caught up in a cut-throat global conspiracy, the stakes are suddenly higher and more deadly than he could ever have imagined.