All sorts of motifs turn up in Sergei Dyomin's mildly dystopic paintings -- pigs, sewing machines, railway cars. But it's the monkeys that proved the lucky break. Dyomin, an artist living in the ...

OVER THE years, Swedes, Germans and Russians have all had a go at conquering Latvia and imposing their flavours of Christianity on it. Today Lutherans worship mainly in the country’s west, and Russian ...

Rabbi Pinchas Tietz, secretary to the Jewish delegation in the Latvian parliament, editor of the Riga, Orthodox Jewish daily, Unser Stimme, member of the executive of the Latvian boycott movement ...

How it began: the Latvian Radio Choir process down to the Arena singing a Russian Orthodox ChantAll images by Chris Christodoulou/BBC That was bound to enliven a bog-standard programme of the Third ...