Currently the Baltic States are the rising star on the European private equity investment menu. Indicative investments have been made; some investors have already made good profits. These and similar ...

Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas stressed when speaking in the parliament on Wednesday that this year, the state has helped farmers with nearly 32 million euros through extraordinary measures, but ...

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 ...

Yesterday, Foreign Ministry State Secretary Andris Teikmanis met with Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni to discuss Latvian-Bangladeshi relations, their development and the current situation in ...

Estonia’s state-owned energy giant Eesti Energia reached an agreement over the conditions of the construction contract of a new power station with Alstom; the new plant will be built near Narva, next ...

Businessman Viesturs Koziols has bought a 51% stake in the joint-stock company Diena, as Koziols told reporters at a press conference yesterday. Koziols did not reveal how much he had paid for the ...

This is it, my friends! It happened! We finally found someone willing to take over and continue our business. In the year of our 25th anniversary, in June – precisely the month the first ever issue of ...

Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of the day when the Soviet authorities deported over 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia; Estonia marks it by hoisting mourning flags and with many events, ...

Ventspils nafta terminals (VNT), a subsidiary of the joint-stock company Ventspils nafta saw its turnover decrease 8.4% during the first two months of the year 2011, as the spokesperson for Ventspils ...

The Latvian Roman Catholic Church has nominated Zbignes Stankevics as the new Archbishop of Riga, because the current Archbishop Janis Pujats will be 80 years old this year, whereas, under the ...

The Constitutional Protection Bureau and the Security Police have also inquired about the joint-stock company Diena and newspaper "Dienas Bizness" takeover deal, as the newspaper Diena writes today.

Latvia's belated adoption of the euro may in some sense be more beneficial than Estonia's fast-track changeover in 2011, as Latvia will join with the worst of the financial crisis and bailout packages ...