Bee Breeders and Lauku Tea have recently announced winners of their Silent Meditation Forest Cabins competition, an open international contest seeking designs for off-the-grid meditation cabins in ...

Private business is encouraged in transition countries in order to generate economic development in rural areas. This paper explores different forms of rural businesses in a peripheral region in ...

A woman makes flower crowns during the Midsummer festival Ligo market in Riga, Latvia, June 21, 2019. The annual Midsummer festival Ligo market opened on Friday, during which farmers and craftsmen ...

In an episode near the end of her thoughtful and eloquent memoir, “Among the Living and the Dead,” Inara Verzemnieks accompanies a cousin on her mail route in rural Latvia. They stop at a crude ...

The European Commission last Thursday approved a €43m film support scheme to help Latvia cope with the difficult screening conditions of local and European films, in particular in rural areas. The ...

The European Commission has approved two film support schemes that address the specific problems faced by film communities in rural or smaller European areas -- specifically in Latvia and Sardinia. In ...