Financial Times European Business school ranking 2010 has ranked Stockholm School of Economics in Riga as the 19th best business university in Europe.

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* Stockholm School of Economics in Riga

The young Rosenberg studied architecture at the Riga Polytechnical Institute and engineering at Moscow's Highest Technical School

Emsis graduated from Riga First Secondary School in 1970, and graduated from the University of Latvia with a degree in biology in 1975.

Stockholm School of Economics in Riga

The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, ( SSE Riga or ) is a business school in Riga, Latvia.

The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga ( SSE-R ) was founded by Staffan Burenstam Linder in 1994.

The school shares its courtyard, main auditorium and library with the Riga Graduate School of Law ( RGSL ).

Investment Game is an international stock market simulator, founded in 1997 by the student investment fund at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

* Stockholm School of Economics in Riga

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The University of Latvia named at that time " The Latvia Higher School " was founded on September 28, 1919 on the basis of the former Riga Polytechnic ( founded in 1862 ).

Conferences have been held inter alia at the London School of Economics ( 1993 and 2001 ), the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil ( 1994 ), the Sapienza University of Rome ( 1995 ), the Université de Montréal ( 1996 ), the Free university of Amsterdam ( 1997 ), the Industrial Union in Turin ( 1998 ), the Bryn Athyn College in Pennsylvania ( 1999 ), the University of Latvia in Riga ( 2000 ), the University of Utah and Brigham Young University ( 2002 ), and the University of Vilnius ( 2003 ).

Thanks to financial support from his two older brothers who lived in Riga ( one was a merchant and another served as a lieutenant ) Walden managed to complete his education – first graduated with honors from the district school in the town of Cēsis ( 1876 ), and then from the Riga Technical High School ( 1882 ).

At a young age she moved to Riga from the Latvian countryside to study painting, first at the Jānis Rozentāls Art High School and then at the Latvian Academy of Art.

There are three hydroelectric dams on the Daugava River – Rīgas HES just upstream from Riga or 35 km from the mouth of the river, Ķegums HPP another 35 km further up or 70 km from the mouth, and Pļaviņas HPP another 37 km upstream or 107 km from the mouth.

# Wilhelm, ( 30 June 1498, Ansbach – 4 February 1563, Riga ), Archbishop of Riga in 1539-63.

* 1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.

* 1921 – The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.

* 1919 – Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

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

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

Wilhelm von Brandenburg ( 30 June 1498 – 4 February 1563 ) was the Archbishop of Riga from 1539 to 1561.

After William's administration as Prince-bishop ended during the Livonian War, Riga became a Free City ( 1561 – 1581 ).

* March 18 – The second Peace of Riga ends the Polish-Soviet War.

* May 24 – Sertab Erener wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 for Turkey with the song Every Way That I Can, in Riga, Latvia.

* June 16 – Johannes Ambundii, Archbishop of Riga

* June 1 – residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida

Finally the Treaty of Riga, ending the Polish – Soviet War, divided Belarus between Poland and Soviet Russia.

After the brief success of the Kerensky Offensive 1 – 19 July and its disastrous sequel, when Ludendorff's general reserve of six divisions captured Riga, 1 – 5 September 1917 and then in Operation Albion September – October 1917 took the islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, British and French commanders on the Western Front had to reckon on the German western army being strengthened by reinforcements from the Eastern Front in late 1917.

* link = European route E67 –: Helsinki … Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw – Piotrków Trybunalski – Wrocław – Kłodzko – Kudowa-Zdrój – Náchod – Hradec Králové – Prague ; also known as the Via Baltica

It is thus not surprising that SSE Riga has quickly built a strong reputation for offering the highest-quality business education among employers and applicants in the Baltic Republics.

In the course of time, such higher educational establishments as Latvian University of Agriculture, Latvian Academy of Medicine, Riga Technical University separated from the University of Latvia and became well-known centers of education and research.

Riga State Gymnasium No. 1 (), the oldest school in the Baltic states, offers secondary education ( grades 7 to 12 ) in Riga, the capital of Latvia.

During his education at the Riga City Gymnasium he met and befriended Pēteris Stučka, Dora Pliekšāne's future husband, who later become a prominent Latvian communist .< ref >

Until then, young people from Estonia had received their specialist education in St. Petersburg, Germany or Riga.

Manhattan BridgeBorn in Riga, Latvia into a Jewish family, Moiseiff started his education there and studied at the Baltic Polytechnic Institute for three years ; he emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 19 because of political activities.

She received all her formal education in Riga, Latvia, where in 1977 she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Latvia and completed her graduate work in theoretical computer science ( supervised by Prof. Rusins-Martins Freivalds ) in 1990.

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.

Around 1160, Hanseatic traders from Lübeck established a trading post on the site of the future city of Riga, which Albrecht von Buxthoeven founded in 1201.

Bishop Albert of Riga ( Albert of Buxhoeveden ) founded the military order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword (, ) in 1202 ; Pope Innocent III sanctioned the establishment in 1204.

Albert, bishop of Riga ( or Prince-Bishop of Livonia ), founded the Brotherhood to aid the Bishopric of Riga in the conversion of the pagan Curonians, Livonians, Semigallians, and Latgalians living on the shores of the Gulf of Riga.

SSE has founded sister organizations in the Baltic states: the SSE Riga in Riga, Latvia, and the SSE Russia in St Petersburg, Russia.

The Livonian Brothers of the Sword (, ) were a military order founded by Bishop Albert of Riga in 1202.

Albert, Bishop of Riga ( or Prince-Bishop of Livonia ), founded the Brotherhood in 1202 to aid the Bishopric of Livonia in the conversion of the pagan Livonians, Latgalians and Selonians living across the ancient trade routes from the Gulf of Riga eastwards.

After the war, when the independent state of Latvia was founded, Liepāja became the de facto capital of Latvia for six months when the interim government of Latvia, headed by Kārlis Ulmanis, fled from Riga on a ship " Saratov ".

Vironia, founded in Riga November 26, 1900.

* ÜS Liivika, founded in Riga April 21, 1909.

The Baltic branch of German tradition is distinct to Latvian, Estonian, Polish and some German corporations founded at universities of Tartu and Riga.

First Latvian corporation in Riga was Selonija, founded in 1880 at the Riga Polytechnicum.

* Fraternitas Arctica, http :// www. arctica. lv /, Russian minority corporation, founded in Riga November 7, 1880.

* Selonija founded in Riga November 24, 1880.

* Talavija founded in Riga December 14, 1900.

* Tervetia, http :// www. tervetia. lv /, founded in Riga April 30, 1922.

* Beveronija founded in Riga May 4, 1922.

* Fraternitas Metropolitana founded in Riga October 6, 1924.

* Fraternitas Vesthardiana founded in Riga October 8, 1924.

* Fraternitas Academica founded in Riga February 4, 1925.