Viking Line Faces Investigation Over Open Bow Door
byAccording to Finnish national broadcaster, YLE, the Viking Line ferry, Rosella, left port in Åland with its bow door open. If true, the Finnish…
Estonia’s Image Problem Solved
byWashington DC seems to have solved the marketing problem for Estonia. Thought DC was full of only pale white men in suits? Think again….
Air Lituanica Terminates Operations
byLithuanian airline, Air Lituanica ceased operations midday on Friday. The airline’s management, announced on its website that it was stopping all regular flights and…
No ‘Frozen Conflicts’ Will Be Resolved While Russia has Veto in UN Security Council, Vike-Freiberga Says
byVaira Vike-Freiberga, the former president of Latvia, points to an inconvenient truth that few want to recognize: no frozen conflicts in the former Soviet…
Controversy over Swedish Joy Division musical
byA Swedish musical, “Kärleken kommer att skilja oss åt” (Love Will Tear Us Apart), has been made from Joy Division’s songs – and some fans…
Carl Bildt to Advise Russian Oil Company
bySwedish Radio reports that former foreign minister Carl Bildt has been become an adviser to a Russian oil company, LetterOne. LetterOne’s owner, Mikhail Fridman,…
Classic Latvian Work About The Gulag Published in English
byOne of the most powerful accounts ever given of life in Stalin’s Gulag has finally been published in English. “Suddenly, a Criminal” by Melanija…
Baltic Military Commanders Request Permanent NATO Brigade
byBaltic military leaders have prepared a joint letter to NATO Commander in Europe, US General Philip Breedlove, requesting that a permanent NATO brigade be…
Desperate Refugees Are Becoming Europe’s Most Serious Problem: Urmas Paet
byUnfortunately, it often takes a terrible tragedy for a problem that has existed for a while and is constantly growing, to be taken seriously….
As in 1939, Kremlin Said Mulling ‘Preventive Occupation’ of the Baltic States
byPeople of decency and good will around the world have been horrified by Vladimir Putin’s defense this week of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which made Hitler…