Latvia will close one of its two border crossing points with Belarus due to the ongoing Minsk-engineered migrant crisis, the Latvian government announced on Sept. 19. Latvia has suspended the ...

The Latvian State Border Guard will ask the government to close the Silene border crossing with Belarus after a record number of people tried to illegally cross last week, the Latvian Radio reported ...

MINSK, 8 September (BelTA) – The Office of the Prosecutor General of Belarus has received Latvia's refusal to provide legal aid regarding the criminal case into genocide, BelTA learned from the press ...

Latvia, along with neighboring Estonia and Lithuania, has emerged as one of the most vocal opponents of Russia in the wake of Putin’s unprovoked brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago.

The Belarusian customs is ready to increase the load on checkpoints with Poland and Latvia after Lithuania announced the ...

HELSINKIHELSINKI — Latvia is growing worried over the increasing number of migrants attempting to cross over into the Baltic nation through the border with Belarus and has called up the military to ...

A total of 1,228,592 European residents have visited Belarus since 15 April 2022. They included 394,668 visitors from Latvia, 655,021 people from Lithuania and 125,897 visitors from Poland. On 19 July ...

Latvia says it has prevented more than 1,000 people from illegally entering the Baltic country since a state of emergency was declared at its border with Belarus a month ago, amid accusations that ...

(Reuters) - European Union member Latvia has deployed 3,000 troops for a previously unannounced military exercise near its border with Belarus this weekend amid an escalating migrant crisis along the ...

Latvian authorities bolstered security at the border with Belarus as the Baltic nation accused its eastern neighbor of organizing migrant crossings over the frontier. The Latvian State Border Guard ...

Belarus on Friday opened a criminal case against Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics and Riga Mayor Martins Stakis after they replaced the Belarusian state flag with a historical Belarusian red ...

'Help, baby is so cold!' cries migrant in stranded group Pushback at Latvian border comes after emergency declared Responds to alleged Belarusian 'weaponisation' of migrants Latvia's PM condemns Minsk ...