Belte, an ethnic Latvian, agrees that Russian speakers have been ignored too long and been made to pass unnecessarily stiff Baltic language tests as a condition for Latvian nationality. Many ...

This news release is available in German. Regional and minority languages are severely under-represented in the digital world. Social media, booking websites, and Wikipedia entries are usually ...

There is to date no systematic comparative analysis of work on the significance of language at the levels of the individual and the state across the Baltic. This introductory article reviews recent ...

More than 10 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian is still spoken as a first or second language in much of the region. Some countries -- and some republics within Russia -- have been more ...

(Bloomberg) -- Larysa has lived in Estonia most of her life, but struggles with the language. One of the Baltic nation’s nearly 400,000 native Russian speakers, she taught at a kindergarten catering ...

New startup conference for the ‘Baltic Rim’ TechChill Baltics took place again this year in Riga, Latvia. Following in the footsteps of the online infographics tool Infogr.am (from Latvia), the winner ...

At the beginning of February, the Language Inspectorate (Keeleinspektsioon) issued a warning to three traders at Tallinn's Baltic Station Market who used foreign language advertising or public ...

Regional and minority languages are severely under-represented in the digital world. Social media, booking websites, and Wikipedia entries are usually available in just a few languages, which is a big ...