1 July, councilmen from the recently-elected Riga City Council voted in Nils Usakovs (Harmony Center) as Riga mayor. 37 councilmen voted for Usakovs, whilst 21 city councilmen voted for the other ...

Estonia has completed the decade-long clean-up of one of Europe's most hazardous radioactive waste dumps on the Baltic coast, an official in charge of the operation said Monday. "It is completely safe ...

Trading company Kesko will concentrate its telecommunications and ICT services in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia to one service operator, Elisa said in a statement. The ...

In order to improve the welfare system in Latvia, Ministry of Welfare is proposing three alternatives to the current system of calculating minimum subsistence level, as well as other changes, for ...

The Estonian construction company Windoor has been awarded 22.7 million euros by the Stockholm arbitration court in a debate with a state-owned Kazakh company, the business daily Aripaev reports, ...

A tenth of households in Estonia are not yet ready to adopt digital television which will replace analogue television in summer 2010, LETA/Postimees Online reports. The head of the Estonian government ...

The preliminary turnover for the chain stores Maxima Latvija in 2011 was LVL 399 million, a 7% increase on 2010, the company's representative Ivars Andins informed the Nozare.lv business portal. The ...

According to a survey, which purpose was to clarify what eye color the people of Latvia have, turned out that the most common eye color among citizens of Latvia is bluish-grey. The research, which was ...

Anticipating rising demand for higher-capacity wireless radio links, Modesat Communications, a developer of innovative high-throughput modem technology in Estonia, announced the opening of its US ...

Riga Vidzeme District Court today convicted Raimonds Stalbergs of attempting to extort money from businesswoman Inara Vilkaste on all four counts, and sentenced him to seven years and six months in ...

According to the Government committee on transition to digital TV coverage, Estonia is largely ready for transferring to digital television, writes Postimees Online/LETA. The committee noted that ...

The Norwegian company CSUB (former Sorkomp), which works with oil and gas technologies, is launching a production division in Klaipeda. In the short run, CSUB LT plans to create 50 new jobs for ...