Flow director Gints Zilbalodis became Latvia's national hero after his little black cat that could took down animated giants to win an Oscar.

RIGA, Latvia (JTA ... Hundreds of nationalist activists march or wave Latvian flags from the sidelines under heavy police protection. Since its advent in the 1990s as a grassroots initiative ...

On May 24, the Latvian top diplomat Edgars Rinkevics and the mayor of Riga Martins Stakis, reacting to this incident, personally replaced the Belarusian national flag with the white, red and white ...

Moscow goes on the premise that the mayor of Riga should know "the rule of respect for state symbols that is generally accepted in the world", Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed MOSCOW, July 1.