Sentence examples for latvia from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A country in North Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Latvia.
As with its Baltic neighbours, Latvia has had a contentious relationship with Russia, and the rights of Latvia's ethnic Russian inhabitants (who make up about a quarter of its 2.1m population) remain a thorny issue.
"It is very important when Russians looks at countries like Estonia or Latvia or Poland that they don't just see Estonian, Latvian and Polish soldiers – they see French, German, British soldiers too," he said.
The Riga summit on the European Union's eastern partnership policy may not make many headlines, but the issues that will be debated on Thursday and Friday in Latvia are major ones all the same.
Underpinning the book is a subtext: a love-letter to Latvia, its people, culture and traditions.
In recent years, Latvia has reinvented itself as a financial services hub, facilitating capital flight from Russia and other former Soviet republics.
3 nights in Latvia: from £279 Head to Riga for a Baltic bank holiday break and stay at the four-star Europa Royale, just five minutes from the old town.
Latvia-based Ask.fm, a Formspring rival that had won a few big advertisers, lost many of them after it too was linked to cyberbullying and multiple suicides.
The defence ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were meeting on Thursday and the situation in the Baltic sea would be the "number one topic of the meeting", Siemoniak said.
Concerns about the aims of expanding Kremlin-backed media outlets are especially palpable in Russia's EU member neighbours, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which all have significant Russian-speaking minorities, as does Ukraine.
The ship is only designed to carry a crew of 94, Rossiya 24 television reported, but was carrying 78 Russians and 54 foreign nationals from Myanmar, Ukraine, Latvia and Vanuatu.
Cameron is also determined to ensure the summit makes clear that Nato is "utterly resolved" to block any Russian attempt to repeat its destabilisation tactics in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – all members of Nato and the EU.
