Slide Show: Latvia's Tiger Economy Loses Its Bite

For more than a decade the ex-Soviet republic of Latvia was a model of seamless transition to a prosperous postcommunist world. It entered the European Union in 2004, and its double-digit growth rate toppled that of the rest of Europe within a year.
(Reporter: Kristina Rizga. All images: Akim Aginsky. (Rizga and Aginsky reported from Latvia on a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.)