Main office of Danish Danske Bank, previously known as Sampo Bank (which used to be Finnish one).
Danske Banka is one of 25 banks. Interesting fact that there is a ratio of 1 bank per 40,000 residents if Latvia.
It gets even strange if we do compare to neighboring Lithuania, which has 1 bank per 500,000 residents (7 banks in total)

Labels: banks, center, danish, finance, finnish, morning, offices, spring

Hesburger is a Finnish fast food restaurant chain, similar to American McDonalds.
In fact Hesburger has more restaurants in Latvia than McDonald's, hence it could be considered number one.

Labels: finnish, food, restaurants, streets, vecriga

What is Latvian Nokia? This is a new popular expression among people living in Latvia.
Sometimes Latvians compare themselves to Fins, who have much stronger economics despite very similar history, natural resources and more or less the same mentality.
State and private companies are often hope for a miracle, basically that some of their products or services will bring Latvian economics to much higher level as once Nokia did for Finland.
P.S. this is an old Soviet public telephone with dial. Quite rare thing nowadays, though.

Labels: design, devices, finance, finnish, politics, soviet