On February 20, decoration ceremony for the personnel of the 6th shift of the National Support Unit (NSU-6) will be held at the Logistics Command, the Defense Ministry reports. NSE-6 included 22 ...

Estonia’s state-owned energy giant Eesti Energia reached an agreement over the conditions of the construction contract of a new power station with Alstom; the new plant will be built near Narva, next ...

Businessman Viesturs Koziols has bought a 51% stake in the joint-stock company Diena, as Koziols told reporters at a press conference yesterday. Koziols did not reveal how much he had paid for the ...

Latvia's belated adoption of the euro may in some sense be more beneficial than Estonia's fast-track changeover in 2011, as Latvia will join with the worst of the financial crisis and bailout packages ...

Estonian Agriculture Minister Helir-Valdor Seeder met the director general of the Ukrainian fisheries board today to pave the road toward more export of fish products to the large non-EU market. The ...

Prime Minister of Latvia Valdis Dombrovskis (New Era) believes that economic recovery in the world and Europe will start slightly sooner than in Latvia, as the premier said in an interview to the ...

On the eve of the Lisbon Treaty’s entering into force, it is a right time for revealing to the BC’s readers the main aspects of the new treaty, its main ideas and aims. The first article in the series ...

A 1937 "BMW 328 NN Buegelfalte" automobile which once belonged to Latvian man Gvido Adamsons has been sold at auction for EUR 4.3 million (around LVL 3 million) at a classic sports car auction in ...

Further development of economic crisis will generate large-scale political changes in Russia. Changes will concern the state system and the society in whole. This conclusion is made by Institute for ...

Santa Claus visited the Estonian parliament on Thursday and brought a gift to each party faction that symbolized the achievements or faux-pas of the parties this year, National Broadcasting/LETA ...

The Estonian retail chain Selver plans to open up a supermarket in the Latvian city of Rezekne (eastern Latvia) in 2008, LETA was informed by Selver Latvia Executive Director Uldis Priekulis. The ...

Eurosport and Panasonic has successfully launched the first-ever pan-European 3D transmission of the tennis French Open at Roland Garros in Paris. The first 3D images, part of the "Panasonic 3D ...