* Mikhail Anisin performed a portion of the piece during the 4th Kontinental Hockey League All-Star Game in Riga, Latvia.

In 1979, the Mobile went to the USSR to record a performance of the Katchaturian ballet Gayane performed by the Latvian company Ballet Riga.

In the districts administrative functions were performed by the district boards appointed the Riga City Council ; district boards were led by directors.

McGuinness and Siljamäki of OceanLab discussed the album during an interview in Riga, Latvia: We've been experimenting with a completely new sound-one of the tracks we're working on right now features a 56 piece mouse choir.

* 1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.

He retained the Soviet Championship title in 1958 at Riga, and competed in the World Chess Championship for the first time.

That war began soon after the end of World War I in 1918 and lasted until the Treaty of Riga resulted in the end of the hostilities between Poland and Russia in 1921.

Much of the territory ceded to Poland in the Treaty of Riga became part of the Soviet Union after World War II, when Poland's eastern borders were redefined by the Allies in close accordance with the British-drawn Curzon Line of 1920.

After World War I, Poland became an independent country, and its secession was finalized by the Peace of Riga in 1921 at the end of the Polish-Soviet War, which left significant territories populated by Poles within the Soviet Union.

While the Treaty of Riga led to a two-decade stabilization of the Soviet-Polish conflict, the conflict was renewed during World War II and the treaty's borders were overridden by decision of that war's Allied powers.

During the First World War Dr. Themerson served as a medical officer in the Tsar's army and his family lived in Riga, St. Petersburg and Wielkie Luki.

Freivalds was born in Riga, Reichskommissariat Ostland, during World War II, and escaped to Sweden with her family.

Occupied by Germany during the World War I, following the Polish-Bolshevik War it was handed to Poland under the terms of the Treaty of Riga and became a seat of a powiat within the Polesie Voivodship.

In the same year, Erat was a member of the silver medal winning team from the IIHF World Championships in Riga, Latvia.

These tactics emerged gradually during the later years of World War I, used in various forms by the Russian general Aleksei Brusilov in Brusilov Offensive of 1916, by the British Third Army at the Battle of Arras in April 1917, following the reorganisation of British infantry platoons according to the new Manual SS 143, in the new year and by the Germany military in the Siege of Riga in September 1917 and the Battle of Caporetto in October 1917.

When the World War I started in 1914, Riga Polytechnical Institute was evacuated to Moscow and worked there until 1918.

Until the Finnish gold in Riga 2005, Sweden had won all Team World Championships, until 2006 only Swedes had won the Open Swedish Masters, and until 2007 all individual world champions were Swedes.

ITHF was established during the World Championship 2005 in Riga, Latvia.

* Vecrīga in Riga, UNESCO World Heritage Site

At the conclusion of the conflict, in accordance with the Riga Peace Treaty of 1921 it became a part of Polish Volhynian Voivodeship for the period between the two World Wars.

Born in Riga, Zhdanok is of Latvian Jewish origin, coming from a family decimated by Latvian Nazi collaborators during World War II.

The 2006 IIHF World Championship was held in Latvia between May 5th and May 21st, 2009 with events being held in Riga.

On this date, Latvians commemorate not the end of World War I in 1918 ( as in many other countries ), but the victory over the Bermontians at the battle of Riga the following year.

Broszat criticized Irving's claim that because of one telephone note written by Himmler stating " No liquidation " in regards to a train convoy of German Jews passing through Berlin to Riga ( whom the SS intended to have all shot upon arrival ) on 30 November 1941 that this proved that Hitler did not want to see the Holocaust happen.

The Baltic Sea might be considered to be bordered on its northern edge by the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga.

One of the most extensive was perhaps the work done in Riga by Krisjanis Barons who between the years between 1894 and 1915 published six volumes including the texts of 217 996 Latvian folk songs ; the Latvju dainas.

Ukrainians ended up with no state of their own and felt betrayed by the Riga arrangements ; their resentment gave rise to extreme nationalism and anti-Polish hostility.

This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named, and based on, " Butcher Of Riga " Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Today's capital, Riga, founded in 1201 by Teutonic colonists at the mouth of the Daugava, became a strategic base in a papally-sanctioned conquest of the area by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.

Led by the opposition National Conservative Party, right-wing nationalists won a majority of the seats nationwide and also captured the Riga mayoralty in the 29 May 1994 municipal elections.

Tautvilas strengthened his position by traveling to Riga and accepting baptism by the Archbishop.

Practically all the hemp and flax required by the Royal Navy for cordage and sailcloth was imported from the Russian dominions through the ports of St. Petersburg ( Kronstadt ) and Riga.

Pope Celestine III proclaimed a crusade against the Baltic heathens in 1195, which was reiterated by Pope Innocent III and a crusading expedition led by Meinhard's successor, Bishop Berthold of Hanover, landed in Livonia ( part of present-day Latvia, surrounding the Gulf of Riga ) in 1198.

The founding by Bishop Albert of the market at Riga in 1201 attracted citizens from the Empire and economic prosperity ensued.

In 1243, the Bishopric of Pomesania and the other three dioceses ( Bishopric of Samland, Archbishopric of Warmia, and Bishopric of Culm ) were put under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Riga by papal legate William of Modena.

The Polish – Soviet War was particularly bitter and ended by the Treaty of Riga in 1921.

Wagner was writing Rienzi and hatched a plan to flee his creditors in Riga, escape to Paris via London and make his fortune by putting Rienzi on to the stage of the Paris Opéra.

This action was supported by the Archbishop of Riga Frederic Lobestat.

Gediminas disentangled himself from his difficulties by repudiating his former promises ; by refusing to receive the papal legates who arrived at Riga in September 1323, and by dismissing the Franciscans from his territories.

At the same time Gediminas privately informed the papal legates at Riga through his ambassadors that his difficult position compelled him to postpone his steadfast resolve of being baptized, and the legates showed their confidence in him by forbidding the neighboring states to war against Lithuania for the next four years, besides ratifying the treaty made between Gediminas and the archbishop of Riga.

When the Surprise returns from a trip to Riga to buy poldavy, Maturin hears from Martin about Padeen's laudanum addiction, discovered after he was caught siphoning laudanum from one of the carboys and replacing the tincture with brandy.

On July 11, 1418 Pope Martin V by recommendation of the Emperor nominated Johannes Ambundii to the position of Archbishopric of Riga where he stayed until 1424.