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 ...

RIGA (Reuters) -Latvia's government decided on Tuesday to close one of its two border crossing points with Belarus as the prime minister accused Minsk of again using illegal migrants as a "hybrid ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since January 1st, 2025, 196,885 foreign citizens from 38 countries included in the visa-free list visited Belarus, most coming from ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...