The site «Russians of Latvia» is dedicated to the history, culture and actual situation of the Russian national minority of Latvia. The site is a popular, encyclopaedic, constantly renewing network directory initially based on materials of the exhibition «Russian national minority of Latvia». Our on-line reference book will be useful to trainee, students, researchers, as well as to general public reading in Russian, Latvian or English languages. The directory has multi-level construction which allows to select materials starting with the historical topic or category.More
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Miroslav Mitrofanov (December 18, 1966, Daugavpils) is a politician and journalist, a member of the European Parliament |
News in the section of «Persons» |
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Olga Shilova (1966) - famous Latvian sculptor |
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Leonid Ostrouchow (1867-1937) - vice-givernor of Livland province, public and theatrical figure, teacher |
TO THE MEMORY OF YURI ABYZOV |
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Photo albom dedicated to Yuri Abyzov - the prominent person of Russian culture in Latvia |
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August 18, 2018, during the Riga Days, the residents and guests of Riga
could get acquainted with aviation technology and pilots. Photoalbom prepared by Dmitry Zhilin |
Pushkin Society in America |
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Pyotr Vail
Pyotr Vail (29 September, 1949, Riga-7 December 2009, Prague) - head of the Russian service of the radio “Svoboda”, writer and publicist.
P. Vail was born in Riga, finished Riga 22nd high school, then Editor's faculty of Moscow polygraphic Institute. In 1977 emigrated to the USA, where cooperated with various Russian emigrant publishing offices.
He served in the radio «Svoboda» more than 20 years at the beginning as the free lancer, then as the permanent worker at New York's agency «Svoboda», ran the programmes «Over barriers», «USA Today», in 1992 headed the agency in New York.
In 1995 he moved in Prague and became an assistant director of the Russian service of information broadcast and later was appointed its chief editor. P. Vail demonstrated varied interests ranging from culinary to the Russian language and fascinated the reader with his precise, laconic and colourful language.
He was also famous for his literary talents and as the author of numerous books such as «The map of the homeland», «Poems about me», «Russian cuisine in exile».
A. Genis was the co-author of some books.
P. Vail contributed a lot to the Russian journalistics in exile.
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