Russia’s New Dissidents in Baltic Exile Pt. 2
Since the crisis in Ukraine, the integration of Russian-speakers, always a contentious subject, has become an even more pressing issue in Baltic discourse, and…
Russia’s New Dissidents in Baltic Exile Pt. 1
Artemy Troitsky has, for thirty years, been the international face of Russian rock music. Yaroslavl-born and Prague-bred, the son of a true-believer Marxist academic,…
Kuldīga: Latvia’s Most Latvian Town
Will Mawhood follows up his visit to Latvia’s most Russian city, Daugavpils, with a visit to one of its most Latvian, Kuldiga, for UpNorth…
Daugavpils: A Complicated Latvian Future Haunted By The Soviet Past
I’m aboard the Riga-Daugavpils train, and we’re rattling along in an unhurried way from Latvia’s capital to its second-largest city; a distance of roughly…