On November 21.11.2013 Maxima shopping center roof collapsed in Riga, Latvia causing deaths and international news. While the rescue work and cleaning of the site is still ongoing, the causes of the ...

Even though local freight increased this year by 11.7% (11.5 million tonnes were transported), yet international cargo volumes fell by 9% (24 million tonnes were transported). Saulius Stasiunas, ...

According to a survey, which purpose was to clarify what eye color the people of Latvia have, turned out that the most common eye color among citizens of Latvia is bluish-grey. The research, which was ...

The fact that Ventspils millionaires – Olafs Berkis, Olegs Stepanovs, Igors Skoks and Genadijs Sevcovs – have been elected into Ventspils Nafta Supervisory Council clearly shows that the international ...

The Latvian State Police has published on its website a list of those killed in the collapse of the Maxima shopping center near Zolitūde in Riga. The list consists of 54 victims, there are no children ...

Statistics Estonia presents today, i.e. on 31 July, the newly published publication “Eesti statistika aastaraamat. 2009. Statistical Yearbook of Estonia“, which gives an overview of the Estonian ...

German companies perceive first signs of recovery First signs of recovery are also traceable in the perceptions of German companies regarding the prospective economic situation in the Baltic States.

According to an IFRS-based assessment, in spite of turbulence experienced on the capital markets, ERGO Insurance Group in the Baltic States wrote over EUR 72.4 million in premiums in the first half of ...

The price of agricultural land in Lithuania, in comparison with many European countries, is still underestimated, and is expected to increase in the future.

Esther Sans, the daughter of political refugees from Latvia, went off to kindergarten five decades ago in Ohio barely knowing any English – but now she knows better than anyone how to power the human ...

31 thousand foreigners are residing in Lithuania at the moment. The majority of them are EU citizens. However, it has been noticed that more and more Africans and Asians are becoming interested in ...

The number of those entrepreneurs who believe that envelope wages are being paid more and more in Estonia has increased over the last few years, it appears from a survey carried out among the ...