Latvia celebrates the 85th birthday of greatest-ever musical figure, composer and performer Raimonds Pauls

In the upcoming future, seven disaster management centres will be planned and built in the country as part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan approved by the Council of Ministers

State Employment Agency has made job opportunities available to students during the summer holidays; electronic applications are open until 17 August

The municipal administration has confirmed the opening of taps at free drinking water points scattered around Riga

The country is expected to become the least populous of the Baltic states by 2060 and to have a population of just over one million by the end of the century, according to Eurostat data