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Killnet, a Russian hacker group, launches the largest cyberattack in the history of Latvia, targeting the country's public broadcaster. The broadcaster says that the attack was repelled.
2022-07-8

Presidents Andrzej Duda of Poland, Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania, Egils Levits of Latvia, and Alar Karis of Estonia arrive in Kyiv and meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
2022-04-13

France, Germany and Latvia expel Russian diplomats in response to war crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, specifically the Bucha massacre.
2022-04-4

Brazil, Denmark, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the United States issue a joint condemnation of the worldwide persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses.
2021-12-17

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

Latvian health authorities temporarily suspend the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution following reports of blood clot issues among vaccinated people.
2021-03-15

Amidst ongoing protests against Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus abruptly closes its borders with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine, while leaving its border with Russia open. Lukashenko insists that the move is to restrict the spread of COVID-19.
2020-10-29

Latvia bans seven channels belonging to Russian state-run news network RT, claiming it was trying to present the country as a failed state. Dmitry Kiselyov, head of the separate Russian state-run news agency Rossiya Segodnya, dismisses the claim and accuses the Latvian government of Russophobia in its ruling.
2020-06-30

Latvia applies to enter the eurozone in 2014, in a move which could see it become the 18th member of the bloc.
2013-03-4

Voters in Latvia go to the polls for a constitutional referendum on whether to make Russian a second official language with 75% of voters rejecting the proposal.
2012-02-18