The Russian language in Latvia is spoken by a significant minority. According to the External Migration Survey in 2017, it was the native language of 36%...

language. Thus the 1905 revolution in Latvia was fundamentally different from that in the rest of Russia[citation needed]. Peasants of both Russian and...

political party in Latvia supported mainly by ethnic Russians and other Russian-speaking minorities. The co-chairpersons of the Latvian Russian Union are Miroslavs...

Latvian (endonym: latviešu valoda, pronounced [ˈlatviɛʃu ˈvaluɔda]), also known as Lettish, is an East Baltic language belonging to the Indo-European language...

the Constitution of Latvia form the foundation for language policy in Latvia, declaring Latvian to be the official state language and affirming the rights...

spoke Russian as a second language. In total, 71% of ethnic Latvians said they could speak Russian, and 52% of Russians could speak Latvian in the 2000...

relations between Latvia and Russia. Latvia has an embassy in Moscow. The Russian Federation has an embassy in Riga. Both Russia and Latvia are members of...

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians and belongs to the Indo-European language family...

Latvia (/ˈlætviə/ LAT-vee-ə, sometimes /ˈlɑːtviə/ LAHT-vee-ə; Latvian: Latvija Latvian pronunciation: [ˈlatvija]), officially the Republic of Latvia is...

geographical distribution of Russian-speakers. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the status of the Russian language often became a matter of...

of Latvia" that provides for the Russian language the status of the second official language?" According to the 2011 census, Russian was the language primarily...

occasionally also referred to as Letts, especially in older bibliography. Latvians share a common Latvian language, culture, history and ancestry. A Balto-Finnic-speaking...

The Latvian Orthodox Church (Latvian: Latvijas Pareizticīgā Baznīca) is an Eastern Orthodox church in Latvia, part of the wider Eastern Orthodoxy community...

having reported some knowledge of the language. Possibly uniquely among the Uralic languages but similarly to Latvian and Lithuanian, Livonian has been described...

In Russia, Latvians are a small ethnic minority scattered across its various regions. In the 2010 census, 18,979 in Russia identified as ethnic Latvian...

volūda, Latvian: latgaliešu valoda) is an Eastern Baltic language, although it is sometimes considered a dialect of Latvian. The Latvian language law classifies...

times of the Russian Empire) made up 7.82% of the population in independent Latvia, growing to 10.5% in 1935. The share of ethnic Russians in the population...

modern-day Latvia switched from Sweden to Russia during the Great Northern War. Under Russian control, Latvia was in the vanguard of industrialisation and...

and Association in Support of Russian Language Schools. According to 2010 data from UNESCO, 4,720 students from Latvia were enrolled in tertiary education...

known as the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party (LSDSP). During its second party congress in 1905 it adopted the programme of the Russian Social Democratic...

Alliance (Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība, NA), officially the National Alliance "All for Latvia!" – "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK" (Latvian: Nacionālā...

city of Latvia, as well as the most populous city in the Baltic States. Home to 609,489 inhabitants, the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population...

Russian and Latvian languages, both of which are Indo-European (more specifically East Slavic and Baltic, respectively). Võro is a language from the Finnic...

The Latvian Wikipedia (Latvian: Vikipēdija latviešu valodā [ˈvikipɜːdija] ) is the Latvian-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia...

The Latvia–Russia border is the state border between Republic of Latvia (EU member) and the Russian Federation (CIS member). The length of the border...

(Russian: Дождь, tr. Dozhd, IPA: [ˈdoʂtʲ] ; stylized as ДО///ДЬ) is an independent Russian television channel. Launched in 2010, it has been based in the...

The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR), also known as Soviet Latvia or simply Latvia, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the...

voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian culture and the Russian language. In a historical sense, the term refers to both...

Native language! (Russian: За родной язык!, Latvian: Par dzimto valodu!) was a political party in Latvia. The party's leader was Vladimir Linderman. In 2009...

conflicts in Latvia between 5 December 1918, after the newly proclaimed Republic of Latvia was invaded by Soviet Russia, and the signing of the Latvian-Soviet...