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Happy 94th Birthday Latvia!

On November 18th, 1918, the Republic of Latvia was officially proclaimed by the Latvian Provisional Government in the space that is now the National Theatre in Rīga.

There was still a fight to retain the independence of this new republic, and it is important that we do not forget that. I only learned about the Latvian [...]

June 14, 1941

My apologies – this post should have been up yesterday, but my Internet provider had an outage, so thus this post comes to you today.

June 14, 1941 is a day that remains emblazoned on the Latvian psyche – this is the day when thousands of our countrymen and women were deported to Siberia, along with [...]