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The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia call on the European Union to construct a €2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and Russia and Belarus to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats.
2024-06-26

Latvian Defence Minister Ināra Mūrniece announces that Latvia will send all of its FIM-92 Stinger missile systems to Ukraine, following a meeting with NATO allies at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
2023-04-21

Russia expels diplomats from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, in retaliation for the earlier expulsions of Russian diplomats from these countries.
2022-03-29

Latvia ends its 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and allows companies to fire employees who are unvaccinated against COVID-19. Unvaccinated people are also banned from taking their duties for parliament and entering shopping malls with a size greater than 1500 m2.
2021-11-15

Latvia's Saeima votes to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as a genocide.
2021-05-6

Voters in Latvia go to the polls to vote for a new parliament. The governing coalition loses its majority with two new parties Who owns the state? and the New Conservative Party becoming the second and third biggest parties behind Social Democratic Party "Harmony".
2018-10-6

The Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau detains the head of the Bank of Latvia, Ilmārs Rimšēvičs. In response, Latvia's Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis calls an emergency cabinet meeting but added there was no apparent threat to the Latvian financial system.
2018-02-18

Latvia votes in a parliamentary election; Laimdota Straujuma's centre-right government keeps its majority.
2014-10-4

Voters in Latvia go to the polls for a parliamentary election. [https:--www.npr.org-templates-story-story.php?storyId=140556079 (NPR)]date=August 2019
2011-09-17

Voters in Latvia go to the polls for the Latvian parliamentary dissolution referendum with 95 per cent of voters supporting dissolution of the Saeima.
2011-07-23