RIGA (Reuters) - Several hundred veterans, relatives and supporters of a Nazi SS division formed from Latvians during World War Two held their controversial annual commemoration on Monday in defiance ...

The FINANCIAL — RIGA. Latvia's ruling New Era party said on March 7 it would appeal against a decision by the Latvian capital's legislature to ban a demonstration by Waffen SS veterans and their ...

The entrance to a nursery school in Latvia owned by an traditionalist lawmaker featured a German-language sign that advertised the establishment as being “Jew-free.” The posting of the sign, which ...

Local antifascists from the Association against Nazism demand that the monument be dismantled and that the mayor of Bauska resign RIGA, September 19 (Itar-Tass) —— A monument to members of three ...

RIGA (Reuters) - Latvians who fought in the local unit of Nazi Germany's Waffen SS held their annual parade on Sunday, an event which the government feared could raise tensions with Russia as former ...

October 24, 1921 – February 10, 2017 They say when an old man dies, it is like a library burning down. This is the case with Karlis Smiltens, age 95. One of the last Latvian Legionnaires, Karlis made ...