Yad Vashem also denounced the "repeated attempts to rehabilitate Cukurs's image in Latvia by distorting and ignoring ...

Today, Latvia officially spat in the face of every Holocaust victim and survivor. In a decision as shameful as it is ...

Several European countries have issued full bans on almost all tourist visas for Russian citizens. That hasn’t stopped them ...

Baltic nation says it couldn't find evidence against Herberts Cukurs, believed responsible for killing tens of thousands of ...

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, condemned the decision this month by the Prosecution Office of the ...

The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from ...

Latvia closes investigation into Herberts Cukurs, the ‘Butcher of Riga’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.

T HIS SPRING, the Lithuanian hamlet of Lavoriskes is tranquil. No traffic disturbs the country road that leads from the ...

The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans ...

Kauls, a son of a Latvian immigrant family that settled in Forest Lake in 1950, has died. Kauls was 84 when he died on Easter ...

A poll commissioned by Latvia's State Chancellery has found that 65.1% of Latvian residents experience daily stress as a result of the war in Ukraine. The survey has assessed the resilience of Latvian ...

In democratic South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed that apartheid was a crime against humanity. The judge concluded that apartheid had been a crime against humanity for at ...