Hundreds of Swedish troops have arrived in Latvia to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank.

According to the World Population Review, Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Latvia are among the nations projected to lose over 20 percent of their populations by 2050. The main drivers of this trend are ...

He is also mayor of the capital Riga. Ethnic Russians form about a quarter of Latvia's 1.9-million population. The Baltic state - in both the EU and Nato - also has a border with Russia.

Latvia’s population of 1.9 million people pales in comparison to the oft-referenced hockey kingdom of Canada, which had 40.1 million residents in 2023. Girgensons has watched Latvian hockey grow ...