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RIGA — Latvia’s transport minister walked out of the TV5 studio after insisting on speaking Latvian during a planned interview for a Russian-language news program. The incident immediately created a storm of controversy along Latvia’s well-trod language fault line, which in recent days underwent a sizable quake after Moscow’s mayor suggested that eventually Russian will [...]
TALLINN — The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church is lambasting the Ministry of the Interior for allowing the Mormon Church access to records that may be being used to re-baptize deceased Estonians. Estonian Lutherans are not happy with the state’s cooperation agreement with the U.S.-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that allows the copying [...]
RIGA — Jānis Urbanovičs, Harmony Center’s prime minister candidate, downplayed suggestions that his party is planning on forming a government with the pro-business tandem For a Good Latvia (Par labu Latviju). In an interview with the Latvijas Avīze newspaper Urbanovičs said that he did not see the possibility for a forming a government with Par [...]
TALLINN — A man who is suspected for attacking two women, killing one, in downtown Tallinn last November was arrested Thursday and has confessed to the crime. A male Estonian citizen named Vjatšeslav, 28 of Tallinn, allegedly attacked two women with a baseball bat on Nov.23 last year around 8 a.m. at Toompark in Tallinn’s [...]
TALLINN — In an effort to bring down power prices and increase carbon-free energy production,...
VILNIUS — The Dutch-Lithuanian Middle Europe Investments Baltija real estate development company has filed for...
TALLINN — The economic recovery in Estonia’s Western European trade partners is being felt by...
There are more than six and a half billion people in the world, and most...
Aminat Saijeva is Lithuania’s ambassador-in-exile to the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. The day of our...
TRAKAI, Lithuania — If you want to understand what makes the people of the Baltic state tick, delve into their rich folk music. Here’s a clip from last weekend’s Mėnuo Juodaragis, which if you were lucky enough to get a ticket gave an excellent primer into the local music scene.
TALLINN — The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church is lambasting the Ministry of...
RIGA — Latvia’s transport minister walked out of the TV5 studio after...
VILNIUS — Despite its recovering economy, it appears Lithuania’s age of austerity...
VILNIUS — Miss Universe is taking on Mrs. Universe, not for who’s more beautiful but...
It’s another inconspicuous August weekend in the Baltic states — the last one of summer, in fact. But while September...
SIGULDA, Latvia — There’s something mystical about the Gauja National Park. Between the thick pine forests, the sandstone cliffs, the...
IZMIR, Turkey — Lithuania’s national basketball team has two victories under its belt thus far...
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — Kaia Kanepi has entered a losing streak after her impressive win...
