[3] Additionally, she received a scholarship of the IASPIS for "two-month artist-in-residence" in Stockholm in 2007,[3] and was given "the highest award of the 'Order of the Three Stars' of the State of Latvia", "Chevalier" ("Knight"), in 2009.
[2] Anna Tellgren states that Ruka works with gelatin silver printing paper.
In 2006, the Photography Centre in Istanbul organised a large solo show of her photos.
Off the beaten track of the picturesque Old Town, with its extensive restoration, she provides an undisguised view on the current state of flux in Latvia since its integration into the European Union.
Among photographers of the former Soviet bloc countries, Ruka shares her documentary-anthropological approach with Antanas Sutkus and Boris Mikhailov; internationally with those of the Americans Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange.