"My beloved Imants passed away this morning, resting in peace with God," wrote the former president. "In deep sorrow, I pray for his soul to have an easy journey."
Imants Freibergs was born on March 12, 1934, in Valmiera and was a Latvian computer scientist. He spent his childhood in Latvia, but in 1944 he emigrated with his parents to Germany, later moving to France, and then to Canada in 1954.
He returned to Latvia in 1999 and lived there until his death. In 2024, a book ...