Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the Germans, and became republics ...

Latvia won its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and although it successfully made the transition from communism to capitalism, some people are still nostalgic for certain elements of the ...

a Florida native who spent part of her childhood in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, spending the Christmas holiday in her husband's home country. Barnyashev and Perry, both 39, are reported ...

Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was ... Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following ...

Latvia’s state police launched a criminal case into Saturday’s act of vandalism committed against a monument to Soviet soldiers ... over the territory of the Republic of Crimea Russian ...

On August 12, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said government-level decisions had been made in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to demolish Soviet memorials. She slammed such ...