As of Friday, August 24, Arturas Vaskevicius will not hold a position of Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Environment. He has been working as a deputy minister since the early December 2010.

Today, Parex banka is implementing its new brand name, according to the bank's announcement at NASDAQ OMX Riga. From now on, the company, which is the only enterprise in the Baltic region and one of ...

OAO Gazprom and E.ON AG, majority shareholders of Lithuania's gas utility Lietuvos Dujos AB, should complain to Brussels about the nation's unbundling plans to the European Commission, Premier Andrius ...

Elisa has entered into an agreement with Santa Monica Networks (SMN) Group, a company specializing in secure IT networks and data center solutions, to acquire SMN's companies in Finland and Estonia, ...

Two Latvian soldiers were killed by insurgents in a battle in Afghanistan, as Airis Rikveilis, head of the defense minister's bureau, confirmed to LETA. This morning Sergeant Voldemars Ansevics and ...

On July 29, two fishermen from Ventspils (northwestern Latvia) caught a huge catfish in the Daugava River, the ''TV3'' nightly news reported in the evening. The catfish is 2.2 meters long and weighs ...

The market value of classified advertisements website ss.lv might be an estimated EUR 40 million, Andris Grikis, the owner of Latvia’s Inbokss IT company, told journalists on August 7th, cites LETA.

On Tuesday, the Lithuanian Parliament has approved a draft law on vehicles taxation. Conservative MP Vitas Matuzas says that the new tax will be applied to luxurious cars. The draft law was favoured ...

Parex banka was doomed because of the activities of the bank's former owners, and it had to fail regardless of depositors' panic in the fall of 2008, as journalist Lato Lapsa said today, presenting ...

Estonia-based construction company Merko Ehitus established a fully owned subsidiary in Ukraine called LLC Merko Ukraine, Merko Ehitus reports to NASDAQ OMX Tallinn. The establishing process was a ...

According to the Estonian Foreign Ministry, it is a retaliation step against a similar decision made by Estonian authorities earlier. The ministry said that Franek Persidski is back in Estonia.

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 ...