RIGA, Latvia — Latvia’s translator-in-chief sits at his desk leafing through dog-eared French and English dictionaries trying to think of a Latvian word for “ombudsman.” As chief terminologist at ...
Latvians have voted in a referendum on whether Russian should become their country’s second national language after Latvian. But Saturday’s vote in the Baltic state is likely to fail and widen the ...
REUTERS - Latvians voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to reject a proposal to make Russian a second official language, in a referendum that has heightened ethnic tensions and sparked renewed criticism ...