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 ...

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

Latvian forces continue their anti-humanitarian migration policy: they beat and threw the refugee's body into the river, and 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 ...

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.

MINSK, 16 May (BelTA) - Belarus and Latvia will expand cooperation in forestry, Deputy Forestry Minister of Belarus Leonid Demyanik said at the seminar "Belarus-Latvia. Business and prospects for ...

Lithuania has repeatedly taken unilateral decisions to close border checkpoints. As a result, nearly 5,000 Lithuanian tractors and trailers are currently stranded on Belarusian territory.

Belarus's Investigative Committee said on November 3 it had launched a probe against unspecified Latvian officials on charges of "crimes against human safety" over the deaths of 12 migrants 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 ...

Latvia prevented 246 people from illegally crossing from neighboring Belarus on September 10 -- a 24-hour record, the Latvian Border Guard said on September 11. According to the Border Guard, 472 ...