A the occasion of the fourth Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, EU leaders met with the representatives of the EaP partner countries to reconfirm the importance the EU attaches to its Eastern ...

Dubbing Riga “the Baltic Berlin” isn’t as crazy as it sounds: Latvia’s hip little capital is awash with art and music at the moment. Its acres of abandoned Soviet-era warehouses are the natural ...

The National Library is known as the ‘Castle of Light’, serving as a symbol of Riga’s ambition (Getty/iStock) When I first arrived in Riga eight years ago, I couldn’t have predicted it would become my ...

The President of the 76th session of the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Abdulla Shahid met today with Mr. Martins Stakis, the Mayor of Riga, capital of Latvia. President Shahid conveyed his gratitude to ...

Riga was a major centre of the Hanseatic League, deriving its prosperity in the 13th–15th centuries from the trade with central and eastern Europe. The urban fabric of its medieval centre reflects ...

Riga has the look of somewhere that really, really wants people to visit it on a city break. It knows it’ll never have the art collections, international icons and global player dynamism of Paris, New ...

Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won a competition to repurpose a derelict brewery in the Latvian city of Riga, introducing offices, a hotel and a public plaza. The Kimmel Quarter occupies ...