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  • Swedish banks set to lose billions in Baltics - Ingves
  • Five companies bid to build new nuclear plant
  • Latvia, Russia, Belarus sign border agreement
  • Tallinn Capital of Culture program suffers massive cuts
  • EC praises Latvia on latest crisis measures
  • New Year - new life
  • Lithuanian police uncover massive drug operation
  • Dukurs dominates Skeleton World Cup
  • Tavid implicated in massive money laundering scheme
  • Baltic prime ministers pledge deeper cooperation
  • Lithuanian foreign minister resigns
  • Latvia, Estonia fall on economic freedoms index
  • Lithuanian government outlines plan for 2010
  • Lithuania supports Italian crucifix appeal
  • NATO to develop formal contigency plan for Baltics
  • Baltic Commission nominees complete hearings
  • Man sentenced for child molestation
  • Estonia legalizes online gambling
  • Latvia renegotiates loan terms
  • Lithuania at a loss as power plant shuts down
  • Estonia, Lithuania rated top reformers by Bertelsmann
  • Student Union demands education minister resignation
  • Seimas releases ClA prison report
  • Constitutional Court overrules government on pensions
  • Baltics struggle with deflation
  • State looks to buy back Estonian Air
  • Baltic presidents optimistic about economy
  • Slesers plans formation of new government
  • Baltics concerned over French-Russian arms deal
  • Lithuania passes 2010 budget
  • Estonia passes budget with eye on euro
  • Where the Middle East meets Eastern Europe
  • Grybauskaite calls on parliamentarians to back budget
  • Savisaar accuses media of right-wing bias
  • Baltics support new Afghanistan strategy
  • EC to appeal decision on Estonian, Polish carbon emissions
  • HIV problem highlighted on world AIDS day
  • Latvia passes budget as unemployment hits new high
  • Thousands protest outside Latvian parliament
  • Baltic Assembly announces prize winners
  • Baltics may benefit from global warming
  • Daugavpils soccer team accused of match fixing
  • Swine flu spreads through the Baltics
  • Latvian police officer caught driving stolen car in Lithuania
  • Latvia to introduce widespread tax hikes
  • Estonia economy on the road to recovery
  • Baltics see mixed results on corruption index
  • President's website hacked as Latvia celebrates independence
  • Approval of Lithuanian government reaches new low
  • Ilves, Vike-Freiberga to run for EU presidency
  • Estonians charged in 'highly sophisticated' hacking case
  • Center-right parties join forces
  • Ambitious nuclear power plant plans shaping up in Estonia
  • Seimas lashes out at EP resolution
  • Baltics face AH1N1 vaccine shortages
  • Latvian GDP continues collapse
  • Baltic government heads meet in Vilnius
  • Baltic retail sales plummet
  • Latvia set to debate budget
  • Estonia to see higher crime rate
  • Latvia tops EU unemployment
  • Lithuanian government signs landmark agreement
  • Estonian gender pay gap hits 40 percent
  • Grybauskaite does not regret the closing of the Ignalina NPP
  • The meteorite in Mazsalaca was a fake
  • Valdas Adamkus: if the CIA prison existed - it is a crime
  • DST end transition on the 25th of October
  • Estonian Centre party wins the municipal elections
  • Rail Baltica can be crossed out from EU top-priority project list
  • Latvian national football team on the highest place ever in FIFA ratings
  • Å Ä·Ä“le back as a leader of People's party
  • A new United States ambassador in Lithuania
  • Floating in Cinamon
  • Latvia loses World Cup qualifier
  • Stag party duo to stay in Latvia
  • Saeima agrees on 2010 budget
  • No decisions in emergency government session
  • Lithuanian economy to grow in 2010
  • Parliament considers extending alcohol curfew
  • Marciulionyte withdraws candidacy for UNESCO director-general
  • Clinton and Paet stress collective defense
  • Riga comes out on top for Capital of Culture
  • Lithuania urges climate change protection
  • Baltics celebrate 75 years of unity treaty
  • Estonia to further Afghan aid
  • Employment situation worsens
  • Hospital protest draws riot control
  • IMF approves next loan installment
  • Baltic Ambassadors step up to strengthen exports
  • Eight Balts detained by Russia in connection with the Arctic Sea
  • Baltic Way celebrations underway for weekend
  • Baltics demand hijacking explanation
  • Transport potential not fully realized in Estonia
  • Vanished ship found- eight arrested
  • Emergency teams to help trucks stuck at border
  • Lithuanian crowned Mrs. Universe
  • Lithuanian ship captured by pirates
  • Retail industry bitten by the economic crisis
  • Cyber criminals found in Latvia
  • Two anti-fascists detained in Estonia
  • Latvia receives 1.2 billion euro loan
  • Risk of explosion at Port of Riga
  • International lenders still wary
  • Top three Baltic souvenirs
  • Latvian FM meets Clinton in U.S.
  • Scheffer's final visit to the Baltics
  • Grybauskaite sworn in as President
  • Russia attacks OSCE Vilnius resolution
  • Selling the soul for cash
  • War criminal transferred to Estonia
  • Prison situation worsens in Latvia
  • Lithuania begins CBSS presidency
  • President vetoes controversial law
  • Rozentale appointed new health minister
  • Midsummer celebrations underway
  • Gay education ban voted in
  • Usakovs to be nominated for Riga mayor
  • Latvian government not to resign
  • Fourth swine flu case confirmed in Estonia
  • Preliminary EP election results
  • European Parliament elections begin
  • Latvia to shut down nightclubs
  • Devaluation not to be discussed-PM
  • Estonian alcohol and tobacco gets new boost from Finns
  • Blondes cure the blues
  • Multi-million euro loan not the last for Estonia
  • Thousands sign petition against changes to maternity benefits
  • Grybauskaite wins presidential elections
  • Gay Pride marches on
  • Riga City Council bans Pride parade
  • Ilves calls for end of party politics
  • Latvia advances to ice hockey quarter finals
  • Ministry slashed amid reshuffle
  • PMs united on energy future
  • Estonia, Latvia not to participate in NATO exercise
  • 6500 tons of fertilizer costs company millions
  • Baltic leaders unhappy with Ignalina's slow progress
  • EBRD to invest 500 million euros in Baltics
  • Explosion at State Revenue building
  • Estonia sets euro aims high
  • 70 million more lats needed if unemployment rises
  • Forest Brother's betrayer charged
  • Fitch downgrades Baltics
  • Lithuania to withdraw KFOR troops
  • IMF urges fast adoption of euro for CEE – FT
  • Public sector workers protest in Riga, Vilnius
  • Zatlers not to dissolve parliament
  • Prince Charles' floral assailent to run for EP
  • Ergma reelected speaker
  • Bomber of Pae Street sentenced
  • Human trafficking from Lithuania increases
  • Almunia: euro could come in 2011
  • Prunskiene investigated for KGB ties
  • Millions of lats wasted in building the Southern Bridge
  • Parliament looking for more Royal Palace funds
  • Legionnaires day passes peacefully
  • Simm stripped of honors
  • New government approved
  • Vilnius protest to free Tibet
  • New developments in Estonian cyber attacks
  • NATO resumes ties with Russia
  • Dombrovskis names new ruling coalition
  • Russia-Georgia conflict brings new challenges to EU-Latvia
  • Celebrity drug users get slap on wrist- no punishment
  • International praise for Simm's case
  • Dombrovskis appointed new PM
  • Gov. collapse increases IMF program risks
  • 'We must be ready for the worst'-Ambassador to NATO
  • Freezing salaries deemed unconstitutional
  • Prime Minister resigns
  • Parliament reopens vetoed amendments
  • Godmanis urges 'new faces' in government
  • Usackas pulls out of presidential race
  • WEBSITE EXCLUSIVE: Ambassadors share U.S.-Baltic call for ‘peace, prosperity’
  • Government restructuring on hold
  • Vilnius mayor voted out, replacement chosen
  • Lithuania and Latvia disagree on power link
  • Estonian government faces vote of no confidence
  • New potential anti-corruption chief selected
  • Latvian hockey will participate in Olympic Games
  • Tartu mayor calls on minister to resign
  • Estonian coalition agrees on cuts
  • Tractors roll into Riga-Minister resigns
  • Agricultural Crisis-Government to approve 24 mil euro support
  • Government prepares for 9 percent decline
  • Parliament gives nod to early elections law
  • Thousands of farmers protest-tractors block roads
  • Opposition New Era party asked to join government
  • Islamic extremism a concern for Estonian Security Police
  • FlyLAL declares bankruptcy
  • Social Affairs Minister to step down
  • Estonia not to renew mission in Iraq
  • Falling exports, and declining GDP's to hit Baltic's in the new year.
  • 3.1 billion euro EC loan approved for Latvia
  • Estonia stays afloat-SAS saves the day
  • Medininkai massacre case closed on one suspect
  • 15 arrested for Vilnius riots
  • Vilnius protest turns violent
  • Vilnius protests turn violent
  • Lithuanian protest turns violent
  • President issues ultimatum to Parliament
  • Mass riots follow protest- Emergency declared
  • 20,000 expected in Riga protest
  • FlyLAL sold to Swiss company
  • Minister may lose post over disability payments
  • Sweden may have suffered more in Baltic crisis
  • Government may further raise VAT in 2009
  • Bronze Soldier Rioters fully acquitted
  • Charges pressed over PM car crash
  • 2009 to be a big year for the Baltics
  • Estonians see 2009 as a year of tax increases
  • Fly LAL and Vilnius airport continue business
  • airBaltic buys out remaining SAS owned shares
  • Gift coupons may indite Parbus
  • Latvia to receive 7.5 billion in IMF aid
  • Regional reform bill passes final reading
  • Kert: Simm may have been spying for decades
  • Estonian parliament to strip leaders of immunity
  • WTO: Lithuania sees second highest child road death rate
  • Latvian press protests VAT tax
  • Estonian parliament to follow lead of Latvia
  • Contaminated meat found in Estonian schools
  • Contaminated pork found in Estonia
  • Eurostat: Baltics among lowest minimum wages in EU
  • New Cabinet approved
  • New Lithuanian Cabinet approved
  • Shipping boat sinks in Baltic Sea
  • Stranded Balts in Thailand to return
  • Parnu mayor questioned on graft
  • President blasts lawmakers for failure to push laws through
  • Sex offender resocialization funds lacking
  • Prime ministers call for defense cooperation
  • Conflict of interest for new Parex chairman
  • University professor detained for destabilizing financial system
  • Negotiations continue with Somali pirates
  • Latvia celebrates 90th birthday
  • Zuokas bows to public pressure
  • Soviet-era radars' last days
  • Basketball chief found not guilty of rascism
  • Police bust major marijuana farm
  • Obama wins U.S. election
  • Lithuania-same fate as Iceland?
  • Latvia to ease restrictions on state secrets
  • Lithuania considers blocking EU talks with Russia
  • Chertoff: visa freedom to start Nov. 17
  • Center-right parties agree on coalition
  • Police search Parnu Mayor’s office
  • Latvia prepares for presidential visit to Russia
  • Four bodies found in Kohtla-Jarve apartment
  • Foreign Minister: Jewish restitution issue must be addressed
  • Latvia’s leading party sees change of power
  • U.S. to lift visa requirement for Baltics
  • Adamkus: EU takes responsibility for Ignalina issues
  • Homeland Union/Christian Democrats win election
  • Jurmala mayor ousted
  • Labor Party leads pre-election polls
  • Public servants take to the streets
  • Latvia not to take part in anti-pirate initiative
  • Lithuania ‘hurt’ by U.S. resolution
  • Baltics near U.S. visa freedom
  • Baltics decide on war in Iraq
  • Doctors, teachers, police protest low wages
  • Lithuania drops war crimes case
  • Baltic corruption rating remains mediocre
  • Former official arrested for treason
  • Serial killer confesses
  • U.S. condemns ‘illegal’ Soviet occupation of Baltics
  • Cracks open in ruling coalition
  • Lithuania to drop the draft
  • Scheffer: No ‘special solidarity’ with Baltics
  • World Bank rates Baltics as business-friendly
  • President blasts ‘dishonest’ referendum
  • Baltic economies continue freefall
  • Kubilius: Russian investment a threat to national security
  • Trade union says frozen wages will mean ‘chaos’
  • Justice minister ‘rethinks’ death penalty
  • U.S. calls for stronger NATO presence in Baltics
  • Lembergs to receive compensation
  • Two deadly road accidents highlight Lithuanian plight
  • Two deadly road accidents highlight Lithuanian plight
  • Alleged Jewish cemetery bones ‘not burials’
  • Baltics unite with neighbors against Russia
  • Baltics condemn breakaway recognition
  • Baltics face EU's biggest population decline
  • Political scientists weigh in on Georgia reactions
  • Missile shield not a threat
  • NATO special session yields frigid Russian ties
  • GOLD for Estonia-bronze for Lithuania
  • Russia considers arming Baltic fleet
  • Saakashvili: 'Baltics will be next"
  • Anti-aircraft system for Estonia
  • Baltic leaders rally in Tbilisi
  • Russian-Baltic relations solid but shaky
  • Baltic support for Georgia
  • Russia invades Georgia- Baltic response
  • Flags are up and the Games begin
  • Raise in salaries not a priority- Latvian PM
  • Controversial Latvian referendum shot down
  • Lithuania beat, but still fighting
  • 17 year-old Medininkai tragedy case to be closed
  • Boycotting the Olympics Part II
  • Azerbaijan warned not to follow Baltic path
  • Latvian war crime case overturned on technicality
  • Tallinn now cheaper than Riga; pricier than Vilnius
  • German communist statue removed
  • Lithuania cyber attacks: Round two
  • Baltic inflation still highest in EU
  • Delays of Lisbon Treaty not to affect EU expansion
  • Estonian criminal extradited to U.S.
  • Lithuania disturbed by Russia's views
  • Pirates release Estonian and ship
  • Russia incompatible with WTO- Godmanis
  • Estonian experts slash municipalities
  • Baltics need to raise productivity - World Bank
  • Ilves returns from Russia
  • Hackers place Soviet symbols on hundreds of websites
  • Lithuanian parliament goes on banning spree
  • Lithuania defends Georgia
  • Pressure builds on Loskutovs
  • Riga on fire
  • French-Baltic air police to continue mission
  • Baltic Sea border heavily politicized
  • Estonian seaman captured by Somali pirates
  • Baltic football riots
  • Time to rally
  • It never ends
  • Gender equality not balanced
  • Last of uranium removed from Latvia
  • Baltic Global Peace Index- Up's and down's
  • Baltics to acquire fighter jets
  • Tiger, tiger, burning (not so) bright…
  • Paint it red- Russian Day of Victory
  • Latvia finally wins one. Fans go wild
  • Ship stranded off Latvia's coast
  • Getting ready for the five-day weekend
  • Lithuania's economics worries neighbors
  • Lembergs the leading man no longer a support act
  • EU putting a stop to Lithuanian-Russian blocks
  • Reading the border signs
  • It's not over yet
  • OSCE starts Latvian tour
  • Military steps up
  • Signature frenzy
  • Estonia goes cyber "thanks" to occupation
  • One year later, Estonia-Russian relations improving
  • Lindermans to be kept in custody
  • Assasination plotter on trial
  • Suicide in the Baltics highest in the world
  • Latvian voters line up to dissolve parliament
  • Tibetian tension
  • Air Baltic takeover talks
  • Bridging the gap between Russia and Estonia
  • Baltics urge NATO expansion during Bucharest Summit
  • Ongoing Baltic support for Kosovo
  • Baltic States gain prominence as donors of international aid
  • Fanning the Olympic flames
  • Immigration dilatation
  • Speaking not so easy in Baltics
  • UN delivers human rights verdict on Baltics
  • Legionnaires' parade passes off peacefully
  • Lithuania prepares Ignalina offensive
  • Artist flags up self-determination
  • Legionnaires' march will go ahead
  • Varied welcomes for Medvedev
  • Odds stacked against Ignalina extension
  • Balts mind their language
  • Estonia celebrates in style
  • Estonia to become nuclear power?
  • Toilet break to last five days
  • Lithuanians mull question of identity
  • Seimas passes nuclear bill
  • Russia takes tit-for-tat action
  • Latvia expels Russian diplomat
  • Loodus likely to replace Reimaa
  • So, what about the border?
  • First scandal of the year arrives
  • First scandal of the year arrives
  • New doubts about Ignalina plant
  • Russia preparing Lithuanian offensive - claim
  • Russia preparing Lithuanian offensive - claim
  • Out with the old, in with the old
  • Would anyone like to be Prime Minister?
  • So long, Abrene
  • Rumor - the new anti-Estonian weapon
  • Neighbors kick Euro approach into touch
  • Parts in the firing line
  • Race is on to be new PM
  • Minister quits following death crash
  • Ignalina shutdown makes a mockery of extension call
  • NEWS FLASH: Kalvitis to quit on Dec 5
  • Kalvitis comes out fighting
  • Loskutovs left in limbo
  • Estonia calls for Nord Stream halt
  • British politician laughs at Lithuanians
  • Perjury, bribery still big in the Baltics
  • Bank targets 2013 as Latvia’s ‘E-day’
  • Figures speak for themselves
  • Latvian government rallies around Kalvitis
  • Uspaskich’s gamble ends in failure
  • Latvian government in turmoil
  • Zatlers on the spot as anti-government anger rises
  • U.S. ambassador speaks out on Latvian corruption
  • Adamkus hints at Ignalina extension bid
  • Vaira roasts Europe’s “fat pigs”
  • Adamkus gets a deal, but Poles still elusive
  • Energy conference told: "We cannot leave the Baltic States vulnerable"
  • Van der Linden controversy re-ignites
  • Poles threaten go-slow over nuclear share
  • Russian gas is the big question for EU’s small states
  • Van der Linden strikes back
  • Estonia blasts UN, PACE 'propaganda' and 'lies'
  • UN will tell Balts to recognize Russian
  • Kirkilas threatens to resign
  • Loskutovs affair gets murkier by the minute
  • Energy dominates Baltic agenda
  • Ventspils doctor is new speaker
  • Latvia 'an example to others' - Pabriks
  • Estonia says 'No' to Nord Stream
  • 'No difference' between Nazis and Soviets - Ilves
  • Are the Baltics up to PACE?
  • Strods to spend more time with family
  • New call for Europe to look east
  • Investigators examine crash plane
  • Estonia gets “yellow light” on Finnish nuclear plant
  • Estonians give Russian lessons to Brits
  • Flashpoints fail to ignite
  • Franco-Lithuanian relations turn tres cordiale
  • Police conclude probe into alleged riot ringleaders
  • Border treaty almost a done deal
  • Emsis’s indecision is final
  • Europe faces new 'Eastern Front'
  • Baltics face huge gas price hike
  • Baltic Russians call for equality
  • Kanter strikes gold for Estonia
  • Kirkilas defends nuclear stance, criticizes Russia
  • Russian pipeline looks at Estonian detour
  • Ilves suggests yet another monument
  • Ryanair could dominate Riga
  • Meri faces genocide charge
  • Wiretapping sparks this season's scandal
  • Kalvitis: “I’m no wizard”
  • Estonia makes monumental decision
  • Fab four to become famous five?
  • Estonia wins vital EC backing
  • Education system ‘does not exist’
  • 'Corruption is a problem' – police chief
  • Fugitive to run for parliament?
  • Cyber attacks not the work of the Kremlin
  • Youngsters show the way
  • Paet: Who's the real fascist?
  • Extra session may be left high and dry
  • Tallinn mayor loses license, 'praises' police
  • Zatlers reasserts his independence
  • Adamkus: murderers will face 'day of reckoning'
  • Latvia turns Euroskeptic
  • Greens force extraordinary session
  • Kirkilas denies government is ‘doomed’
  • Joint military spending takes off
  • Dual citizenship could be coming
  • Latvian-Russian relations warming
  • Drink drive crackdown planned
  • Ilves warns against "wishful thinking"
  • Long lines, short tempers at border posts
  • Varied response to Russian withdrawal
  • Zatlers meets the neighbors
  • Lembergs released at last
  • Adamkus: Citizens will be protected
  • Referendum: everyone's a winner
  • Vaira departs – but for how long?
  • Zatlers names his man
  • Riga's transport system steps back a century
  • Oil CEO released on bail
  • Two Estonians killed in Afghanistan
  • EU slams Russia over Baltic relations
  • PMs united on energy future
  • Council of the Baltic Sea States due for change
  • Size does matter
  • Latvian anti-corruption chief slams envelope payments to doctors
  • Estonia readies for Beckham
  • Zatlers elected next president of Latvia
  • People’s Party and president criticize candidate
  • European Parliament passes resolution supporting Estonia
  • Coalition candidate announced
  • 37 injured in carnival fire
  • Latvian Parliament ratifies border treaty with Russia
  • Moving Latvian victory monument “would be very thoughtless”
  • Baltics bomb out of Eurovision
  • Estonia reacts to rights abuse charges
  • May 9 passes peacefully
  • Tallinn residents nervously await May 9
  • Diplomatic battle rages on over Bronze Soldier
  • Relocated Bronze Soldier to be unveiled May 8
  • Saturday night passes calmly in Tallinn
  • Second night of rioting hits Tallinn
  • Signatures still needed
  • Government begins discussing presidential candidates
  • Latvia draws closer to security referendum
  • Russia, Estonia, and the EU: the saga of the bronze soldier continues
  • Latvia no longer dependent on World Bank
  • City protects historic bar
  • European presidents meet in Riga
  • Tula offers to receive Bronze Soldiers' remains
  • Lithuania’s PM doesn’t rule out resignation
  • Lithuania against genetically modified food
  • Chocolate bear better than no bear at all
  • Ilves warned against an apathetic attitude toward the EU Constitutional Treaty
  • Three years on: the Baltic states and NATO
  • Baltics booted in European Cup qualifiers
  • Coalition talks could break down – Laar
  • UK tourist urinates in Freedom Monument square
  • Court holds Lembergs in custody
  • Change in the air
  • Ansip: Coalition could be formed on March 26
  • Lithuanian and Austrian presidents discuss energy safety and EU neighborhood policy issues
  • Estonia’s ruling Reform Party ponders coalition partners
  • Reform claims victory in Estonian general election
  • Latvian Parliament passes amendments over Presidents objections
  • Adamkus expects a new impetus for cooperation between Lithuania and Kaliningrad
  • February 27 designated national day of mourning
  • Estonia’s average monthly wage crosses 10,000 kroon mark
  • Latvian specialists find forgotten Egyptian pyramid column
  • Latvian Supreme Courts rules on bankruptcy case
  • Estonian politicians to pay for on-air debate
  • Government secures Saeima’s mandate to sign border treaty with Russia
  • MPs praise Lithuania for implementation of Lisbon Strategy
  • President is ready to sign Latvian-Russian border agreement
  • Parliament sends border treaty bill for approval
  • Bronze statue fight escalating in Estonia
  • WWII veterans call for removal of Soviet monument in Riga
  • Devastating storm bypasses Lithuania
  • Latvian Border Treaty with Russia moves forward
  • Russian banker, MP propose to buy land under Soviet monument
  • Latvian Parliament fails ombudsman elections
  • Worm-infested sweets found at Rimi
  • Latvian police prosecuted for wiretapping
  • Hundreds of people bid farewell to the two soldiers killed in Iraq.
  • Lithuania to seek larger share of the nuclear pie
  • Latvia sends what may be last rotation of soldiers to Iraq
  • Estonian medical workers to go on strike
  • Pocius resigns as security chief
  • Estonian government is satisfied with the outgoing year
  • Baltic Assembly urges Russia to lift pressure off Georgia
  • “Estonia - Crossroads of History” expresses Russia’s position
  • U.S. police suspect Latvian involvement in Internet scam
  • U.S. police suspect Latvian involvement in Internet scam
  • Poland wants stake in nuclear plant
  • Rigas Satiksme plans to raise public transport fares
  • Military acquires new missiles, top brass
  • Human rights chair questions anti-gay remarks
  • Kalyuzhny points out the opportunities not taken by Russia
  • Brussels addresses Estonian, Latvian border backup
  • Giuliani praises Latvia’s democracy
  • Estonian President declared support for Georgian reforms
  • Parliament rejects bill on Jewish property compensation
  • EU to tackle Baltic border issue
  • Council of Europe head faults election of anti-gay activist to human rights committee
  • Latvian president: No top politicians in KGB agent files
  • Andris Teikmanis hopes to see Putin in Latvia before 2008
  • Mazeikiu Nafta: English stays on as leader
  • Estonian Parliament removes defense commander
  • President invites young people to participate in creating a Europe of the Future
  • Kirkilas to resign if corruption continues
  • Estonian President defends collective defense
  • Kalvitis to maintain Prime Minister post in the next government
  • Latvian election upheld, Supreme Court challenge fails
  • Prime Minister Ansip participated in a meeting of the heads of government of the Baltic and Nordic countries
  • President returns KGB draft amendments
  • Mazeikiu media frenzy, sale still up in smoke.
  • Foreign Minister denies Lithuania spying in Russia
  • Ilves calls on ‘old Europe’ to abandon selfishness
  • Latvia wishes to accelerate introduction of visa-free regime with the USA
  • KGB files set for March publication
  • Baltic Hopes dashed by EU indecisiveness at EU/Russia energy meeting
  • Outgoing Latvian ministers pay themselves secret bonuses
  • Ainars Slesers wants to head Latvian – Russian intergovernmental commission
  • New ruling coalition tested by no-confidenc vote
  • EU politics revolving around Nida
  • Latvia to reconsider KGB bill
  • Mazeikiu on fire, PKN Orlen claims it is not an accident.
  • Ruling coalition proposes several vice-premier offices
  • Baltic Budgets offer challenges, opportunities.
  • Kalvitis nominated to maintain his position in new government
  • Latvian government returns with majority
  • Vitol Group apparent winner of state-held Ventspils Nafta shares
  • Lithuanian PM opposes economic sanctions against Belarus
  • Vike-Freiberga upbeat about U.N. prospects despite drawbacks
  • Estonian officials hold toxic ship
  • Latvian President satisfied over support to her candidacy for UN head
  • Canada drops visa requirement for Estonians
  • MP warns of Russian influence on Lithuanian expatriates
  • Ilves defeats Ruutel 174 – 162
  • Latvian Parliament bans discrimination of homosexual employees
  • Uspaskich bail raises skepticism among Lithuanians
  • Repse kills a man in auto accident
  • Vike-Freiberga undeterred in U.N. secretary general bid
  • Uspaskich seeks asylum in Russia
  • State employees stage wage picket
  • President of Latvia receives credentials from the Ambassadors of Israel and Pakistan
  • Latvian parliament committee strikes blow for gay rights
  • Schengen hopes knocked back to 2008
  • Raimonds Munkevics elected as new Jurmala mayor
  • Muntianas urges against politicizing Pociunas’ investigation
  • Nine Latvian students sent to hospital for heavy drinking on Knowledge Day
  • Man fined for bomb threat
  • Latvian President surprised by the slow progress of Latvian-Russian relations
  • Ruutel supports Estonia’s participation in Iraq
  • Center Party board meets in extraordinary session
  • Tempers flare in Estonian parliament as presidential vote nears
  • Presidential candidates urge politicians to vote in Parliament
  • Yeltsin: Latvia should forget the word 'Occupation'
  • State police and public order police chiefs fired
  • Police seize record amphetamine stash in Estonia
  • Basketball player’s citizenship application rejected
  • Taagepera proposes mandatory presidential check-up
  • Latvian prosecutor's office to investigate whether Lembergs has spied
  • Ansip faults Center Party-People’s Union agreement
  • Estonian Center Party endorses Ruutel
  • Lithuanian prosecutors are ready to launch an international search for Viktor Uspaskich.
  • Experts solve Copterline mystery
  • Reform Party, Social Democrats to attend presidential candidate meeting
  • Lithuania might join the EU mission in Lebanon
  • Latvia expels Belarus diplomat
  • Lithuanian farmers hit hard by drought
  • Belarusian authorities defend gay pornography search
  • Latvian diplomat charged with distributing pornography in Belarus
  • Ilves meets with Estonian Center Party
  • Interior Minister defends handling of gay pride incidents
  • Eesti Polevkivi head dies in car accident
  • Gay bashers arrested after parade attack
  • Vike-Freiberga lashes out at Riga City Council on gay pride parade decision
  • Two candidates remain on five-party list
  • City Council prohibits gay pride parade
  • City Council prohibits gay pride parade
  • Interior minister meets with Christian leaders, US ambassador about gay pride parade
  • NATO apologizes for upcoming inconvenience
  • The Prime Minister congratulated the recipients of the Fulbright scholarship
  • Valionis bids farewell
  • Kalvitis blames Repse, Gulbis for state financial losses
  • Vike-Freiberga meets Blair
  • Riga port passes Schengen inspection
  • Latvian Pesident pays a working visit to Slovakia
  • Ilves calls rumor over president’s personal life “a provocation”
  • Foreign Ministry urges Belarus to explain air space violation
  • Kirkilas approved as new Lithuanian PM
  • Baltic presidents travel to Scotland to visit the Queen
  • Latvian President participates in Tallberg Forum in Sweden
  • Kirkilas prioritizes political continuity
  • Politicians confused by Ruutel’s absence
  • Supreme Court upholds sentences for missionary murderers
  • Court to hear missionary murder case
  • Ansip pushes for security at Bronze Soldier
  • Lithuanian radars miss airspace violation
  • PM: Parliament “intolerant” for rejecting sexual orientation discrimination bill
  • People’s Union to nominate Ruutel as the party's presidential candidate this Sunday.
  • Parliament deletes employee discrimination ban
  • Adamkus to announce PM candidate tomorrow
  • Black man attacked in Riga center
  • Tallink buys Silja line for 450 million
  • Estonian Minister of Economy considers his running for president
  • Gay reverend loses discrimination case
  • Left-wing, right-wing coalitions formed in Lithuania’s parliament
  • Politicians negotiate majority bloc
  • Organizers of the Pride Parade apply for the permit
  • Brazauskas resigns amid governmental collapse
  • Lithuania’s Labor party removes ministers, government on brink of collapse
  • Russian Orthodox Patriarch visits Latvia
  • Latvian MPs: New public holidays to be introduced
  • PM hints that Uspaskich should step down
  • Queen Beatrix asks tough questions about Latvia’s social problems
  • Estonians protest controversial memorial
  • Court fines former mayor for vote-buying
  • Lithuanians react to EC decision denying eurozone membership in 2007
  • Latvian paratroopers drown in Riga
  • Victim’s families seek fresh investigation into Estonia tragedy
  • EC threatens to fine Estonian pharmacies
  • Ruutel: EU power must not be centralized
  • KGB agent names to be released Nov. 1
  • Right-wing parties keep mum about candidates
  • Delegates of the international forum advice to use EU Neighbourhood Policy possibilities for democracy’s development.
  • Muntianas: New party possible
  • Uspaskich: Muntianas should keep Parliamentary Chairmanship
  • Ukrainian President: Cooperation with Latvia means moving toward greater democracy.
  • Investigation into Repse’s business affairs to be finished in July
  • Muntianas faults coalition agreement
  • Kubilius: Government ruined euro adoption
  • Pae Street tallies up one more suspect
  • Paulauskas doubts Social Liberal ministers will stay on
  • Kallas supports merger
  • PM considers Labor Party for vacant ministerial posts
  • Coalition reshuffling begins in Lithuania
  • Estonian minister calls for probe of 1994 ferry disaster
  • New Era steps out of coalition
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  • Kalvitis urges coalition to work together
  • Res Publica expels disgraced Tallinn council member
  • President ashamed by Tallinn’s corruption
  • Ratas slips past no-confidence vote
  • Adamkus decries political culture in Lithuania in annual address
  • KGB agents can run for the European Parliament
  • Radical newspaper faces charges
  • Savisaar visits Moscow, meets with Gryzlov
  • Baltics condemn Belarus election
  • Oil pollution threatens Bay of Tallinn
  • Valionis summons Belarusian officer over visa rejections
  • Slesers forced to resign, coalition’s fate unclear
  • Former Estonian president dies at 76
  • Lithuania speaks out for Belarusian democracy
  • Adamkus accepts advisers’ resignations, praises their integrity
  • Latvian president meets with U.S. state officials
  • A hippodrome for ancient Trakai?
  • Estonian opposition leader criticizes Ansip on nuclear power
  • Supreme Court defends Kazakov
  • Paet highlights importance of visa-free travel
  • Council of Europe issues third report on racism, intolerance in Estonia and Lithuania
  • Vike-Freiberga discusses Holocaust legacy during Israel trip
  • Kalvitis ensures safety at upcoming Legionnaire march
  • Opposition agrees to vote against environment minister
  • Latvian Groups to protest oppression in Belarus
  • Millions allocated toward pollution-detection equipment
  • Kalvitis highlights need for better education
  • Paper: Talks with Yukos not going well
  • Lithuanians respond to Muslim cartoon protests
  • Social Democrats fight against prostitution
  • Oil spill could cost ministers' jobs
  • Probe in illegal arms deals widens
  • Baltics brace against arctic cold
  • Adamkus lashes out at coalition’s political council
  • PM’s adviser accused of KGB collaboration
  • Royalty writes in visit to the Baltics
  • Ukraine: Gongadze case finally goes to court
  • Russia’s Gazprom – a troubled giant
  • Murniece a shoo-in for defense minister’s post
  • Vike-Freiberga alarmed by outflow of working hands
  • Riga Port buys Baltic Kristina ferry
  • Paulauskas proposes to “reconsider” Lithuanian troop presence in Iraq
  • KNAB chief complains about meddlers
  • Riga to host NATO summit
  • Commissioner assures ecology will come first for controversial gas pipeline
  • Ansip dissatisfied with Blair’s proposal
  • Coalition wobbles on edge of abyss
  • Anti-corruption committee cracks down on Center Party
  • Officials hopeful about Dutch decision on Mazeikiu Nafta
  • Adamkus calls on investigators to probe PM’s family business
  • Kubilius meets president, repeats call for commission
  • Lithuania begins talks with Yukos, searches for Dutch lawyer
  • Russian Foreign Ministry : Paet turned in late visa application
  • Russia bars Foreign Minister Paet
  • LHV traders struggle through SEC trial
  • Vike-Freiberga meets with Chirac as riots rage across France
  • Baltic cooperation remains on strong footing
  • SEC targets Estonian firm for fraudulence
  • U.S. SEC targets Estonian firm
  • Adamkus meets with Merkel, Schroeder, raises thorny pipeline issue
  • Berezovsky officially banned from entering Latvia
  • Berezovsky official banned from entering Latvia
  • Citing budget crisis, Jekabsons resigns Interior Ministry
  • Though victorious, Centrists find themselves isolated
  • Kiev on shaky path toward Western integration
  • Paulauskas clarifies visit by Belarusian PM
  • EU membership talks with Turkey begin
  • "Yalta grandsons" meet to discuss (in) famous conference
  • Passenger ferry accident causes alarm
  • Turkish court bans conference on Armenian Genocide
  • Kirkilas worried about Russian maneuvers
  • Adamkus urges public to refrain from quick assumptions
  • Ministry publishes Copterline investigation on Web site
  • MEPs insist on Belarusian-language broadcast
  • Kremlin-backed English-language news channel prepares for launch
  • Rehn: talks with Turkey must start
  • Explosion adds to Pae Street’s notorious 10-year history
  • Shtab turns to local radical groups for support
  • Foreign ministers breathe new life into enlargement
  • Gas prices enter record high territory
  • Is the CIS more than just a photo shoot
  • One year after Beslan, question remain
  • NATO sets ambitious goals for Lithuania
  • Soccer captain: Russians tried to bribe Latvian team
  • Antropov steps down as police chief
  • Divers pull out 13 victims, one pilot from helicopter wreckage
  • Copterline executives at a loss for explanation of crash
  • Helicopter crashes out Tallinn, 14 feared dead
  • President calls upon Latvians to prevent damage to country’s image
  • Uspaskich’s ‘diploma’ unconvincing for partners, opposition
  • Lithuanians speak out against Turkey in EU
  • City rains on gay pride parade
  • Probe launched against police chief
  • U.S. warns travelers to Latvia about racist attacks
  • Left-wing Russian parties form alliance in Latvia
  • Baltic leaders condemn London terrorist attacks
  • Prunskiene, Adamkus quarrel deteriorates
  • Climate change: the tipping point
  • European citizens’ petition opposes Turkey in EU
  • Russian company: we need ‘Latvian’ workers
  • European People’s Party condemns Soviet occupation
  • Uspaskich resigns; fate of coalition unclear
  • Kirsteins begrudgingly steps down for Paegle
  • Balts mark Day of Mourning and Hope
  • Paulauskas: "Russia is not without influence in South Caucasus"
  • Lithuania finally adopts tax reform
  • Usackas reminds Ukraine of long road ahead
  • Labor migration to Britain heavy, but welcome
  • Paulauskas: ‘Russia is not without influence in South Caucasus’
  • Paulauskas: ‘Russia is not without influence in South Caucasus’
  • Latvian Parliament ratifies EU Constitutional Treaty
  • Latvian Parliament ratifies EU constitutional treaty in final reading
  • MP Kirsteins booted from People’s Party
  • President, PM struggle to find solution to border treaty
  • Estonia signs border treaty with Russia
  • Latvia adopts declaration condemning Communism
  • Bush lauds Latvia, awarded country’s highest honor
  • Medical workers reach agreement, strike avoided
  • Pabriks to ink border treaty
  • NATO meeting focuses on Belarus, Ukraine
  • Butkevicius resigns post in frustration over tax policy
  • Vike-Freiberga: border agreement requires political decision
  • Adamkus: Lithuania faces three challenges
  • Ansip one step closer to PM
  • Ansip poised to get the PM nomination
  • Ambassador lashed out at Lithuanians
  • Res Publica, Centrists unite
  • Approval for Constitutional Court judge falls short
  • Legionnaire march leads to over 20 arrests
  • No-confidence bill lacks signatures
  • Leftist alliance leads polls
  • Valionis could take Adamkus’ place in Moscow
  • Estonian escapes death penalty
  • Sailors face starvation, deportation
  • Maizitis re-elected for second term
  • Estonian escapes death penalty
  • Russia irked that Latvia does not detain Berezovsky
  • Bush hints about changes in visa regime for Eastern Europe
  • Maizitis re-elected for second term
  • Lang supports Latvia’s efforts to explain history
  • Russian politician says borders could be ratified simultaneously
  • American Lithuanians urges Adamkus not to go to Moscow
  • Bush supports Baltics wholeheartedly
  • Holbrooke: Adamkus’ dilemma symptomatic of the United States’
  • Kalvitis wants prosecutor to reveal source of pressure
  • Parts nominates Lang for foreign minister
  • Prosecutor Maizitis warns of further criticism
  • Postimees officials defend themselves from MPs’ attack
  • Investigator reprimanded for leaking info to press
  • Latvia invites Russia to sign border treaty in April
  • Valdas still undecided on Moscow, regrets Vike-Freiberga’s comments on Baltic unity
  • Ruutel releases Ojuland of her duties
  • Ventspils-backed media attacks prosecutor general
  • Ship with Estonian crew sinks off Faeroe Islands
  • Yukos wants to retain control of Mazeikiu
  • Four die in train accident, dozens injured
  • Estonian MEP supports ban of communist symbols
  • Commission receives list of 10 more KGB reservists
  • Train wreck in Riga kills two, injures several others
  • Curonian Spit not likely to be put on danger list
  • Minister says he plans to eliminate doctor-drugmaker ring
  • Ruutel defends statements made in Moscow
  • Kalvitis: president made the right decision
  • Paulauskas: Stalin monument in Moscow jeopardizes Adamkus’ visit
  • Putin prepared to annul Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
  • New Era wants explanation from president
  • EU skeptics picket government building
  • Lithuania still up in arms over KGB collaborators
  • Vike-Freiberga decides to go to Moscow
  • Storm damages top 30 million euros in Estonia
  • Report: Belarus recalls Latvian ambassador
  • Ignalina atomic plant shuts down first reactor
  • Three Estonians believed dead as a result of tsunami
  • Tourist bus crashes, kills nine
  • Parts fulfills promise and visits Lihula
  • Freedom House ranks Estonia high on freedom list
  • Russian MP insulted by Latvian colleague
  • Estonians cool on Turkey membership
  • Lithuania ready for rapid-reaction
  • PMs fail to resolve labor dispute
  • Adamkus: Cabinet unlikely to survive entire term
  • Officials to crack down on bribes to doctors, teachers
  • Estonians select euro-coin design
  • Adamkus signs decree on new government
  • Kalvitis support ratification of minorities convention
  • Center Party to sign agreement with United Russia
  • Adamkus makes third trip to Kiev
  • Three Latvians stabbed in U.K.
  • Brzezinski attends forum, awarded medal
  • Adamkus makes second trip to Kiev to mediate
  • Four parties sign declaration for new coalition Cabinet
  • Baltic president weigh visit to Moscow next May
  • Adamkus prepares to mediate in Kiev
  • Coalition talks get off to bumpy start
  • Police: explosion is result of domestic dispute
  • Suicide bomber kills police officer, wounds three
  • Adamkus: Brazauskas to bear responsibility for new government
  • Vike-Freiberga nominates People's Party's Kalvitis
  • Palts' comments on university 'insulting'
  • Vike-Freiberga to begin coalition talks on Monday
  • Budget passes second reading despite stiff opposition
  • Adamkus: state needs to return to the people
  • US deputy Foreign Min Elizabeth Jones in Estonia
  • U.S. official commends Estonia's political efforts
  • Lithuania's Parliament turns down amendment
  • Supreme Court upholds Tess' sentence
  • European Commission on hold, Udre out
  • Labor Party loses momentum, right-wing parties score big
  • Estonians protest against railroad disturbances
  • Government dissolves when Saeima fails to pass budget
  • Labor wins election, though with less margin than expected
  • Paksas cleared of charges that he leaked state secrets
  • Parts encourages more local takeovers
  • Brazauskas leans toward rainbow coalition
  • Latvia remains hive of corruption
  • Estonia, U.K. confirm tax sovereignty
  • Savisaar sacked - Palts voted in as mayor
  • Report: Labor, SocDems in talks
  • Vike-Freiberga suggests Russia pay for occupation
  • Adamkus: any coalition possible
  • MEPs: Udre displayed a lack of integrity
  • New coalition to boot Savisaar, work out budget agreement
  • Udre unimpressive in EU parliamentary hearing
  • Open season on NATO soldiers in Siauliai continues
  • Parties agree on division of Tallinn posts, Savisaar's days are numbered
  • Tallinn City Council to hold confidence vote on Savisaar
  • Minister: Russian financial claims absurd
  • Parliament supports abolishing dual-citizenship for government leaders
  • Estonian mark 10th anniversary of ferry disaster
  • Railway, mechanics reach a compromise
  • Parliament supports sacking of Junokas
  • Earthquake sends a tremor across the Baltics
  • Vanhanen: ferry route needed to eastern Estonia
  • Riga Airport chided for pricing policies
  • Russia supports new Narva bridge project
  • Adamkus to retain neutrality in election
  • Emsis survives no-confidence vote
  • Schools observe minute of silence in honor of Beslan
  • Police chief: Kazakov had Russian funding
  • Commission alarmed by maritime chemical dumps
  • Lithuanian MPs reject idea of transit corridor
  • Press attacks on Udre continue
  • Parts to accept Atonen’s resignation
  • Vandalism continues after monument removal
  • Lithuania: Lukashenko’s decision is ‘worst scenario’
  • Russia accuses Latvia of repression
  • State removes controversial monument by force
  • Demonstrations fade to a dull roar
  • Bomb blast injures two in capital
  • University founders fed up with delay
  • Press: Brazauskas rejects Uspaskich's offer
  • City braces for mass protests
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  • Parts: Atonen might have to resign
  • Right-wing parties unable to agree
  • Lithuanians aim to have Trakai added to World Heritage sites
  • Minister to Russia: stop spying on us
  • New sick-leave rules spark concern among businesses
  • President Vike-Freiberga defends criticism of NGOs
  • Consul punished for hit-and-run accident
  • Slivenko case reopened in Latvia
  • Res Publica, Reformists entice breakaway MPs
  • Right-wing parties agree to cooperate
  • Cabinet endorses plan for Estonian language development
  • Latvian population still in decline
  • Latvian population still in decline
  • Right-wing parties agree to cooperate
  • Cabinet endorses plan for Estonian language development
  • Latvian population still in decline
  • European folk festival opens in Riga
  • Brazauskas: Political situation “in crisis”
  • Ilves appointed to high position in Europarliament
  • Parliament bypasses presidential veto on rent ceilings
  • Pabriks approved as foreign minister
  • Poll: half of Parliament considered corrupt
  • Minister: Russian rhetoric reminiscent of Cold War
  • Telephone conversations with MPs publicized
  • Estonia leader in percentage of women specialists
  • MP hands in resignation letter
  • President, PM discuss upcoming protests
  • Biggest bootleg distillery ever found
  • Accused MPs testify before ad hoc commission
  • Row heats up over Piks’ replacement
  • Estonia to track speedsters on camera
  • Prosecutors name three MPs accused of corruption
  • OSCE chides Latvia on human rights situation
  • One killed in Moscow-Tallinn train derailment
  • Defense Minister visits soldiers in Iraq
  • Estonian soldiers help find bomb maker
  • Russia pressures Latvia via EU
  • Borisov to be deported
  • People’s Party wants more pull in coalition
  • Estonia, Lithuania join exchange rate mechanism
  • Adamkus wins by narrow margain
  • Klimavicius: Office raids lead nowhere
  • Riga leads in single-parent families, gray skies
  • Nationalists score major victory in EP elections
  • Adamkus finishes strong; Labor Party dominates EP poll
  • Estonians entrust opposition to legislate in Europe
  • Lithuania to get a new think tank
  • Estonia braces itself against inflation
  • Latvian officer killed by mortar attack
  • Dual citizenship bill has country up in arms
  • Government backs criminalizing alcohol sales to minors
  • Case against Paksas to begin in July
  • Budget debate brewing in Latvia
  • History buff building SS Legion museum in Parnu
  • Adamkus, Labor Party ahead in polls
  • Moscow mayor opens culture center in Riga
  • Lithuania refuses to hand suspect to U.S.A.
  • Migration police to begin duty in autumn
  • Lithuanian politics heats up before election
  • New anticorruption chief appointed; Muiznieks survives
  • Russian helicopter veers into Estonian territory
  • Crucial anticorruption post about to be filled
  • Conservatives ditch Adamkus, plump for Austrevicius
  • Murder incites speculation in media
  • President does not promulgate KGB file law
  • Reform, Res Publica look strongest
  • Lithuanian, Polish PMs meet in Punsk
  • U.S. officials question political posters
  • Parliament votes to open KGB files
  • Prosecutors take step in charging Paksas
  • Center Party boots rebellious MPs
  • And then there were three
  • Landsbergis wants to support Estonians
  • Powerful explosive found in Kaunas
  • New Era asks for Muiznieks’ resignation
  • Helicopter wreckage found
  • NATO troops misbehaving in Lithuania
  • Latvia no closer to ratifying convention
  • Market owner found guilty of assassination
  • EU member Lithuania prepares to throw weight around
  • Latvians celebrate hockey victory, quarterfinals
  • Ambassador’s son arrested for assault
  • EU accession brings price increase
  • Latvia gets extra month to solve stadium conundrum
  • Lithuania preparing for historic accession
  • Center Party about to split
  • Russia expels Latvian diplomat
  • President awards saviors of Jews
  • Adamkus throws hat into presidential race
  • Estonian passports will turn red in 2007
  • Prosecutor caught demanding $10,000 bribe
  • Security chief has damaging info on candidates
  • Latvia wants more EU farm allowances
  • Estonia likely to be fined by EU
  • Paksas snubs prosecutors
  • Repse blasts new government
  • One dies in sports plane crash
  • State officials losing patience with school protests
  • Impeached Paksas avoiding prosecutors
  • Multihalle steps out of the rink project
  • Jursenas named left-wing presidential candidate
  • Party members tussle for favorable registration conditions
  • Candidates begin to queue up for vacant presidency
  • Experts bemoan lack of state support for science and education
  • Government ponders radical smoking ban
  • Citizen Paksas rushed to hospital
  • Paksas ousted from presidency
  • NATO: One for all, all for one
  • Lietuva in brief
  • Seimas gears up for final stage of impeachment
  • Latvija in brief
  • Latvia may give Europe its first-ever Green prime minister
  • Eesti in brief
  • Young protesters get off with warnings, fines
  • Latvia included in U.S. list of money launders
  • Tensions with Russia peak
  • Estonian soldier killed in action in Iraq
  • Tallinn's ticket policy criticized
  • Shtab - leave those kids alone
  • Lithuania expels three Russian diplomats for spying
  • Lietuva in brief
  • Lithuania leads Balts in combating HIV
  • Paksas comments on future elections, date unclear
  • Latvija in brief
  • Repse refuses to cooperate with investigation
  • Russian sanctions against Latvia won't hurt
  • Composition of new coalition still murky
  • Eesti in brief
  • Center for stateless draws EU criticism
  • Estonia signs on to chide Europe's heavyweights
  • Reporter protects source against police demands
  • Zuokas accuses paper of journalistic blackmail
  • Latvia singled out by European human rights expert
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Infamous MP might get the ax
  • Pink Floyd not pleased with video clip
  • President wants welcome mat for diaspora Latvians
  • Estonia in brief
  • MP criticizes president for stance on poll
  • Moderates change name, choose EP candidates
  • Cyclist won't get money back
  • Education bill passes despite protest
  • Grass-roots support keeps Paksas afloat
  • Changing attitude about working in the shadows
  • Cabinet quits, leftist MPs defect to the right
  • Coalition in crisis, Jurkans returns
  • Russia bars Danish journalist for critical articles
  • Blast rocks Kremlin reporter's apartment
  • Ryanair's wings clipped in crunch EU ruling
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Diplomats employ PR in U.S.A.
  • Controversial aide back on Paksas team
  • Latvia in brief
  • Company needs 13 million euro loan for arena
  • Ban on ex-communists, former KGB lifted
  • Estonia in brief
  • Kallas emphasizes allegiance to America
  • Center, Reform parties access government
  • No Schengen visas for Russians anytime soon
  • Landsbergis: U.S.A. has smelled the coffee
  • U.S.-sponsored radio broadcasts in Baltics end
  • Baltic states pushing for NATO air protection
  • Sugar speculation may cost Estonia dearly
  • Who would be Lithuania's next president?
  • EU 'gravy train' rumbles on for MEPs
  • Estonia in Brief
  • Dead tax man goes unnoticed
  • EU approves compensation for 'late' air passengers
  • U.S. plans military bases in Eastern Europe
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Persona non grata escorted off train to Kaliningrad
  • Mayoral controversy resurrects political hostility
  • Latvia in brief
  • Land grab has already begun outside Riga
  • Coalition nears collapse as Repse fires Slesers
  • Parts sympathizes with Finns on labor issue
  • Reformists want a revised constitution
  • School reform amendment sparks outrage
  • A million trees for joining Europe
  • Human rights report draws Latvian ire
  • Minister: U.S.A. wants Paksas to resign
  • Fifty-fifty split on EU regional aid on table
  • Expert: crime to 'intensify' after enlargement
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Talk of isolation mounting, Paksas responds clumsily
  • Mob boss with Lithuanian links ballots for Kremlin
  • Latvia in brief
  • Ban on ex-KGB staffers, communists may be lifted
  • Lembergs assails Cabinet's decision on commissioner
  • Estonia in brief
  • Baltic police chiefs discuss cooperation
  • Drug prices to diverge further
  • Kallas nominated as European commissioner
  • United States deports Lithuanian for WWII crimes
  • Media integrity under question in scandal-weary Lithuania
  • Paksas makes a poor defense
  • Repse's land acquisitions scrutinized
  • Scandinavian oil smuggling a thorn in EU's side
  • Ryanair: negative EU ruling will kill low-cost travel
  • Swedish post: better late than never
  • Stop worrying, learn to love the bomb
  • France ranks last in implementing EU laws
  • Baltic salmon blacklisted by toxicologists
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Latvia in brief
  • Kalniete nominated EC commissioner
  • Radicals set fire to ministry door
  • Estonia in brief
  • Non-Tallinn residents irritated by new policy
  • Ministers ready to return illegally earned money
  • Prosecutors probing possible genocide crime by citizen
  • Baltic prisons fall short of EU standards
  • Lithuanians not yet driven to obesity
  • Rolandas Paksas: a psychological profile
  • Freakish accident, death stun city
  • Anticorruption bureau gets aggressive
  • Borisov’s lawyers battle deportation orders
  • EU hooks fish deal after marathon talks
  • Former Finnish PM faces charges
  • Once destitute Ireland now immigration haven, though many locals unhappy
  • Irish EU presidency vows against two-tier Europe
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Kwasniewski confident in Lithuanian democracy
  • Belarusian underground school holds reunion in Vilnius
  • Latvia in brief
  • Commissioner nominations show Baltic style
  • Vike-Freiberga criticizes display of Iraqi leader
  • Repse offers TeliaSonera Xmas compromise
  • Estonia in brief
  • Estonia becoming a European prostitution-tourism capital
  • Lithuanians most sanguine of Balts
  • State wavering afflicts AIDS prevention efforts
  • Moscow to keep up the heat on minority rights
  • Borisov not packing his bags yet
  • Marbled seal population rapidly declining
  • Repse: heed nature's call
  • Paksas defies commission, irks court
  • Estonia in brief
  • Birth rate increase measures implemented
  • Lithuania in brief
  • From Russia with loathing
  • Latvia in brief
  • People's Party, New Era have no joint plans
  • Slesers confronted on Zhirinovsky suggestion
  • Climbing accident claims lives of four Latvians
  • Blame game on after collapse of EU summit
  • 2003 CHRONOLOGY
  • EU 'expansion' summit falls flat on face
  • Though dramatic, 2003 was the 'Year of Confirmation'
  • ABCs on how to thrive in future EU
  • Seimas plays Grinch to Paksas' Scrooge
  • Pro-Western liberals ousted from Duma
  • New pro-Kremlin party torpedoes communists
  • International observers describe elections as unfair
  • Parliamentary elections hand Putin unrivaled, 'czarist' power
  • Lithuania in brief
  • AviaBaltika accounts frozen by prosecutors
  • Latvia in brief
  • Man indicted for 30 murders in Riga
  • Nine new suspects to be named in digital TV scandal
  • Estonia in brief
  • Healthcare system distrusted, too expensive
  • Draft bill calls for mandatory residence registration
  • Politicians weigh elections differently
  • War of words mounts ahead of make-or-break EU summit
  • Baltics' Russians support United Russia, Motherland parties
  • Single-hull tanker causes uproar, departs from Ventspils
  • Brazauskas: speed up impeachment process
  • Ukrainian is official, but Russian still lingua franca
  • Politics with a boozy punch at Russia's Duma
  • EU constitution on verge of collapse
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Doubts on privacy rights raised in scandal
  • Latvia in brief
  • Ten Pakistanis to be held until new year
  • Student imprisoned in Iraq returns home
  • Anticorruption bureau cracks down on alleged leaks
  • Estonia in brief
  • Strike set to go on as planned
  • Meri suggests whittling down Parliament
  • Radio Free Europe closing Baltic operations
  • Paksas defiant, blasts commission
  • Baltic Assembly calls for condemnation of communism
  • Coalition standoff ends with People's Union victory
  • Lithuania rejects Estonian utility bid
  • Commission: Paksas violated oath of office
  • Estonian Railways celebrates, defends against critics
  • Poland insists on keeping Nice vote deal intact
  • Britain may 'veto' EU constitution
  • Chechen children still dying despite aid effort
  • Patten: EU needs guidelines for Russian relations
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Liberal Dems rally behind Borisov
  • Paksas filling up vacancies in administration
  • Police chief fingers Kaunas mobsters, president's office in probe
  • Latvia in brief
  • Complex work of integration marks first anniversary
  • Estonia in brief
  • Environment commissioner chides on legislation
  • German journalists shocked by Narva
  • Winner of 'vodka marathon' dies
  • Brazauskas, Social Dems biding their time
  • Ten Pakistanis detained on border
  • Ruling coalition still intact - for now
  • Udre goes unpunished for illegal donations
  • Car fee on border irks official
  • Paksas digs in amid growing protests, accusations
  • On Kremlin mutants and sushi with Putin
  • EU defense agency aims to bloc's muscle
  • Oligarch guilty of wanting honest government
  • Ireland seeks to mend trans-Atlantic relations
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Medalinskas' past aspirations scrutinized
  • Consular wrongdoings confirmed in report
  • Latvia in brief
  • Freivalds urges EU to help with border dispute
  • Student imprisoned in Iraq could be freed soon
  • Estonia in brief
  • Debt-burdened Susi founds law firm
  • Paksas escapes to war zone
  • Kalniete defends Latvia against Russian criticism
  • Baltic song festivals receive UNESCO recognition
  • People's Union rocks coalition boat
  • New alcohol sale restrictions mulled
  • Assets frozen in digital TV scandal
  • Paksas fumbling to prevent crash-landing
  • European poll on Israel puzzles, frightens EU leaders
  • U.N. blasts Russia on human rights
  • Moscow links Chechnya with Baltics
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Poll: no returning property to Jews
  • Borisov grounded - for now
  • Latvia in brief
  • Threat of orphanage closings causes outrage
  • Recall of EP observer sparks indignation
  • Estonia in brief
  • Russia complains about ex-officers' rights, diplomas
  • UNESCO questions D-6 oil project
  • Ruling coalition reaffirms cooperation
  • Teachers, cultural workers to strike in December
  • Paksas promises to purge administration
  • Brussels puts up red flags to EU accession
  • EU slams Turkish failings, sparking anger in Ankara
  • Six months until Europe's 'big bang'
  • Investor confidence in Russia plummets
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Questions on defense finance
  • Latvia in brief
  • Court decision signals move toward freer speech
  • Illegal radioactive material sparks concerns
  • Estonia in brief
  • Estonia to negotiate with Russia through EU, NATO
  • Staffers for Shimkus set off alarms
  • Riga City Hall finally completed
  • Joyride gets chief into trouble
  • Controversial contraband market may soon shut down
  • Impeachment cloud hangs over Paksas
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Politicians come down on corrupt border officials
  • Latvia in brief
  • Vike-Freiberga calls on Russia to re-evaluate its history
  • Estonia in brief
  • Ruutel violated anti-corruption act
  • Tax, customs boards to merge
  • ‘Hugo-book’ scandal angers intellectuals
  • Zhirinovsky advocates irredentism
  • Baltic-Nordic ties strengthen with new agreements
  • Educators do math of state funding
  • Russian delegation seeks high-speed train
  • Rights defenders look to Strasbourg
  • U.S. Embassy fingerprinting visa applicants
  • Germans enjoy last days of floating supermarkets
  • Consumers get raw deal in Eastern Europe
  • European leaders seek public support for EU
  • Washington presses Europe over defense plans
  • Lithuania in brief
  • Europe to get sculptor's Eurogate
  • Latvia in brief
  • Truce declared between coalition factions
  • Estonia in brief
  • Estonian soldiers injured in Iraq
  • Unique HIV subtype common in Estonia
  • Russian commission co-chair postpones visit
  • Legionnaire cemetery causes uproar
  • Jump-starting Europe to surpass America
  • Labor Party begins campaign early
  • Unity accord splits politicians
  • Party finance rules to be overhauled
  • Party finance rules to be overhauled
  • Party finance rules to be overhauled
  • Party finance rules to be overhauled
  • Party finance rules to be overhauled
  • Partisan Kononov has conviction overturned
  • Partisan Kononov has conviction overturned
  • Partisan Kononov has conviction overturned
  • Estonia in brief
  • Defense reform program runs into criticism
  • Party finance rules to be overhauled
  • 'Drug tourism' to catch on
  • 'Drug tourism' to catch on
  • 'Drug tourism' to catch on
  • 'Drug tourism' to catch on
  • Paksas at top speed, rectifying past mistakes
  • Presidents emphasize infrastructure
  • Report: clandestine immigration on rise
  • Kaliningraders hit from other side
  • Dutch minister named new NATO chief
  • Small EU states toughening up for Rome
  • Conference on Caucusus nearly breaks down
  • MPs question expanding role of military abroad
  • Referendum vote divided along ethnic, regional lines
  • 2004 budget approved
  • Legal flaw keeps GM seeds on shelves but off fields
  • Finance minister resigns amid fraud probe
  • Savisaar suffers stroke
  • Porcelain plot falls apart
  • Repse frightens at flight controls
  • Anniversary turns acidic
  • Coalition on brink after EU poll
  • Latvia extends final ‘yes’ to EU
  • Road safety: another East-West gap to close
  • Trilateral cooperation on Caucusus questioned
  • Investigation mired in bureaucracy
  • Integration minister seeks shelter in political party
  • Tanks but no tanks
  • Cabinet reaches budget compromise
  • Pro Patria may join Res Rublica on ticket
  • Defense strategy to focus on skilled personnel
  • Experts: no real alternative to EU accession
  • Reality TV explores life in EU
  • In Brief
  • Karaims take up efforts to avoid slow extinction
  • For Russia, Ventspils off the radar screen
  • Baltic PMs urge support for EU
  • Poland and Russian set for visa agreement
  • Visegrad group to meet on EU constitution
  • Politicians worry Swedish euro “no” vote could delay future Danish endorsement
  • Belarusian opposition leaders describe election strategy
  • French singer denied bail in Lithuania
  • Supporters doubtful that skeptics will influence vote
  • Protesters rally against education reform
  • Daugavpils battles mayoral instability
  • Preliminary vote sets stage for EU vote
  • Journalist fabricated celebrity interviews
  • Ministry clamps down on CEO benefits
  • Court rules against controversial campaign ad
  • In Brief
  • Res Publica plans for European Parliament
  • Baltic Diplomats Under Terror Threat
  • Amid tragedy Sweden decides to reject euro
  • EU ministers divided over immigration quotas
  • Minister's murder looms over Sweden
  • Adamkus raises profile and criticizes successor
  • Lithuanian basketball snags European gold
  • Russian protest group held in custody
  • Leaders contemplate EU defense
  • Government set to confirm anticorruption chief
  • Scientists debate drug research at gene forum
  • Jewish cemetery in Riga vandalized
  • Amid tragedy Sweden rejects the euro
  • Estonian voters support EU accession
  • Norwegian shoppers watching
  • Russia agrees to free trade zone
  • Small states to fight constitution
  • Black ribbons tied to school doors
  • Ministry promises hazardous fuel answer
  • 10th anniversary of the great withdrawal
  • Scooter problems race out of control
  • First Party thinking of leaving coalition
  • New environment plan released
  • Greens and Farmers under investigation
  • Ousted oligarch speaks with Narvans
  • European language charter debated
  • In Brief
  • Nordic, Baltic states push for sea protection
  • Illegal booze still flowing freely
  • Sweden braces for fateful vote
  • $900 million Baltic Pulp facing extinction
  • French interventions irk Brussels, Berlin
  • Amending EU constitution
  • Five years on, scars of Russian financial crash still run deep
  • Euro-zone economy falls farther behind
  • Sabonis to play for Kaynes?
  • State pursuing refinery embezzlement case
  • Vike-Freiberga appeals to Cabinet
  • President intervenes in budget imbroglio
  • Center Party unity still unclear
  • Similarities in development strategies puzzle experts
  • Nordic neighbors pulling for ‘yes’ vote
  • Drilling rumors raise sea of questions
  • In Brief
  • Kallas’ talk of ‘Russian card’ triggers debate
  • Repse’s style ruffles some feathers
  • Lithuania: Europe’s newest ‘tiger’ might see growth stunted by EU
  • Gender-based surnames struck down
  • Gender-based surnames struck down
  • Anti-tobacco summit ratifies agreement
  • Candidates dreaming of euro
  • Seating problems in enlarged EU
  • Illegal immigrants face one-way ticket out
  • Rocket fuel transfer pushed back again
  • Officials impede formal extradition request
  • Budget induces more than split hairs
  • Park lovers sit and enjoy mistake
  • EU funds will drive Via Baltica improvements
  • Cabinet signs pro-EU statement
  • Vote angers Ruutel
  • Report: traffickers face charges, few sentenced
  • In Brief
  • Corruption conquers agency leader
  • Cuts in health care a “tragic mistake”
  • Rejected bid sparks legal battle
  • Center Party says ‘no’ to EU
  • Russia saves neighbor from food crisis
  • Forbidden re-election for Europe’s last dictator
  • Countries take up battle against runaway spam
  • France wants Cantat extradited
  • Think-tank report predicts political shift
  • Agency plans one-stop shop for EU funds
  • Two festivals, two fates
  • IMF advised to postpone coalition promises
  • Poetic approach to referendum agitation
  • In Brief
  • Caucasus to learn from Balts
  • Natural landmark split by different mentalities
  • Latvia poised to reap Iraqi contracts
  • Austerity measures undermine Repse Cabinet
  • Russian colonel gets 10 years for murder
  • Brussels set on saving dolphins
  • EU: break stalemate on global farm trade
  • Minority issues confound Central European countries
  • French actress seriously injured in Vilnius row
  • Seven booted out of Foreign Ministry
  • Marketing expert helps distill national image
  • Gas explosion kills five, raises questions
  • Minister: more encouragement for naturalization needed
  • Parnu to commemorate freedom fighters – again
  • U.S. visa will require new interview
  • Reinsalu disputes Nazi-hunt findings
  • In Brief
  • Seconds of stroganoff for asylum seekers
  • Murmansk over Ventspils: analyzing U.S. energy strategy
  • Wreck of czarist-era ship found
  • East European tourism expecting EU boost
  • EU military development outpaces expectations
  • Prodi faces questioning over Eurostat scandal
  • Transport integration funds sought from EU
  • Three judges sacked on graft charges
  • Old embassy debt matter of contention in Baltics
  • Ministers cut away at ‘kula’ controversy
  • Tax board chief suspended amid controversy
  • Famous cyclist dies in road tragedy
  • Cabinet’s first 100 days analyzed
  • Curonian Spit cleaned of oil
  • In Brief
  • Lithuania receives list of Nazi criminals
  • Crackdown on human traffickers
  • British servicemen commemorated in Estonia
  • Lithuanian pilots repeat historic flight
  • Belarusian president fires prime minister
  • EU DRAFT CONSTITUTION – NEW INSTITUTIONS, KEY POINTS
  • Sweden seeks U.N. protection for Baltic Sea
  • EU constitutional forum ends work
  • Oil standoff angers environmentalists
  • No backing out of Iraq
  • MP on verge of impeachment
  • Military prepares for NATO membership
  • MP explains 'kula' to Europe
  • Lawmaker sides with Russia on education
  • Fate of KGB files still hotly debated
  • Center Party’s EU indecision irritates Parts
  • In Brief
  • Pro-Chechen Web site offered unique home
  • 'Yes' to direct presidential elections
  • Lithuania uneasy about relations with Belarus
  • Brainy Baltic eurocrats well qualified for Brussels
  • U.S. decision not to harm relations
  • The tale of a pig, milk and a king
  • Working group: no pulp without paper
  • Study green-lights EU accession
  • Lietuvos Telekomas stakes future on digital
  • In Brief
  • Oil terminal pays dividends despite downturn
  • Oil extraction plans rankle Lithuania
  • Berlusconi to use art of mediation
  • Jury trials return to Moscow
  • Finland may ban buying of sex
  • Poland will not accept ‘federal’ Europe
  • Paksas: Come home, Lithuanians
  • Cyclist denies doping charges
  • U.S. decision not to harm relations with Baltics
  • Vike-Freiberga takes oath
  • Baltic trade war put on three-month hold
  • New TV series to teach Russians Estonian
  • Tax office looking into employee breaches
  • Bootleg vodka makes up third of market
  • Brussels plans ‘neighborhood program’ for enlarged EU
  • Latvia to appeal for funds for Russia
  • Fears and hopes on EU’s new frontier
  • U.S. decision not to harm relations
  • The tale of a pig, milk and a king
  • Nation, visitors pay homage to Baltic king
  • New PM sees gripes with EU
  • Belarus expels reporter
  • Seaborne feminism at work
  • ‘PM-Boss’ Berlusconi can’t wait for Europe
  • Cyclist ostracized for doping
  • Mayoral vacancy finally filled
  • Three die over St. John’s
  • Neighbors edge toward trade war
  • Sexism found to be rife in Estonia
  • Estonian peacemakers head to Iraq
  • Hackers crack into Education Ministry
  • Aeroflot steps in to fill demand
  • Confusion and tears on the way to Kaliningrad
  • Asylum family in homes row ‘were not persecuted’
  • Vike-Freiberga wins second term
  • New era in Baltic travel begins
  • Mixed response for EU constitution
  • Battling over ICC war-crimes court
  • Czechs vote overwhelmingly for EU
  • Border security stressed
  • Latvian cyclist redeemed by higher court
  • No money to bribe with
  • Sophisticated forgery ring begins to unravel
  • Campaign to save lives during Jani
  • Paper: EU interested in building bridge to Saaremaa
  • Russians want to vote in EU referendum
  • Euroskeptics' conference fails to attract public, media attention
  • In Brief
  • Estonia, Latvia final test for EU expansion
  • Managers go on seaside mind trip
  • Mayoral mayhem drags on
  • Baltic Sea poisoned once again
  • EU chides Cuba for rights violations
  • Poles support EU in year’s most crucial vote
  • Paksas appeals to France on new reactor
  • Paksas at cruising altitude after 100 days
  • Broadcast language law repealed
  • Vike-Freiberga to breeze through election
  • Sea transport agreement initialed
  • New bosses for law enforcement agencies
  • Civil service key to success in the EU
  • Extradition of OMON soldier to Latvia on hold
  • In Brief
  • Estonia sending troops to Iraq
  • Specter of renewable energy hovers over Balts
  • Latvia adopts pork protection
  • EU facing crunch time on constitution
  • EU facing crunch time on constitution
  • Moscow to NATO: No military bases in Baltics
  • Farmers keep up heat, state balks at demands
  • More troops bound for Iraq
  • Distrust rooted in wartime tragedy
  • Greenpeace targets Ventspils-bound tanker
  • Employment options for disabled to be improved
  • Tartu's 'M-tickets' to stay
  • Estonia wants to host EU's IT security agency
  • In Brief
  • Report on Baltic minorities disrupts NATO assembly
  • Baltic pride: whose Eurovision was better?
  • Controversial radar to be built
  • Napoleonic soldiers finally given honor
  • Napoleonic soldiers finally given honor
  • Duma ratifies border agreement
  • Crisis draws nearer mayorless Vilnius
  • Winding down at postcontest gig
  • Surprises, suspense fill Eurovision night
  • Journalism and juggling numbers
  • Sailors go for joy ride in stolen vehicle
  • Latvians leery of reporting fraud
  • Baltic ministers hash out pork dispute
  • Prudent fiscal strategy adopted
  • Mothers' benefits to improve
  • Woman shot dead in courtroom tragedy
  • Uncertain future for pivotal ‘Vilnius 10'
  • In Brief
  • Concordia: is there life after death?
  • Disgruntled farmers block borders
  • Thousands rally against education reform
  • Those bizarre EU myths
  • Saami minority seeks return of land
  • Slovaks' bumpy ride chills neighbors
  • Kaunas - thriving drug hub
  • Farmers threaten, state caves in
  • Maneater's Lithuanian childhood to be filmed
  • Skonto Hall secure for Eurovision
  • Parts: Justice minister deserves a second chance
  • A Soviet-era tradition returns
  • NATO enlargement to boost Estonian-Russian relations
  • Mass protest planned to oppose education reform
  • In Brief
  • Nuclear ambitions find new impetus
  • Eurovision descends on Riga
  • Sweden's euro backers heed wake-up call from opposition in polls
  • Kaliningraders frustrated with 750th anniversary
  • Fireworks promised as debate over EU's future heats up
  • Lithuania, Russia ink deportation treaty
  • Cheap beer and chocolate gets out the Sunday vote
  • Bizarre aquarium in Riga's Old Town
  • Many drivers prefer deals with car thieves over police
  • Latvia's WWII navy finally honored
  • State to analyze demographics
  • Blind protest reclassification, lower benefits
  • Teachers targeted in education reform bill
  • In Brief
  • Bush hails Senate ratification of seven new NATO members
  • European leaders hail Lithuanian 'yes' vote
  • Economy to get solid dividends with accession
  • 'Estonian Riviera' might be revived
  • Lithuanians support EU with both hands
  • Kremlin: No 750th anniversary for Russian ‘Konigsberg'
  • Slovakian hotline for solving EU conundrums
  • U.S.: EU defense initiative harmful to NATO
  • Runner to tackle half-year marathon
  • Second council renews controversy
  • Possible voter apathy has leaders on edge
  • Construction of vital tunnel delayed indefinitely
  • Overhaul for Livu Square
  • Chechen news agency raided
  • Tallinn wants to restore residence registration
  • Fischer meets with Baltic ‘relatives'
  • In Brief
  • Insurance faux pas angers travelers
  • Nuclear waste dump partly secured
  • Kaunas syndrome hits Vilnius city politics
  • 'Get-out' clause triggers debate
  • Four EU leaders call for new defense headquarters
  • 50,000 ghost towns sucking up Russian finance
  • Historian barred from exclave
  • Interior minister resigns amid scandal
  • Gulbis warns of crime wave
  • New security chief appointed
  • Dry grass fires continue countrywide
  • Minister: Tallinn in need of art films
  • Gene bank launches its core project
  • Baltic presidents talk nuclear in Tartu
  • Enlargement delivers hope to divided villages
  • Estonia gets low marks in Nazi hunting
  • In Brief
  • EU: getting in easy, getting out - not
  • Instability syndrome in Kaunas
  • Daredeviling to referendum success
  • East Europe appeals to save Radio Liberty
  • Prodi urges EU to stand up to U.S.A.
  • Danish fly-on-the-wall film stirs controversy
  • Kaliningrad visa-free deal sealed
  • Adamkus making presence felt
  • Mayor’s office still vacant
  • New health minister lists priorities
  • Investigation in mail contract continues
  • Latvian chefs slice and dice to championship
  • Former commander acquitted
  • Economic affairs minister lobbying for civil service
  • Construction workers stumble across history
  • New Baltic fund honors independence writers
  • SARS not here yet, but doctors are ready
  • Vike-Freiberga: Eastern Europe’s new voice?
  • Expansion dream comes true
  • Greeks call for stronger Europe
  • Austrian Slovenians better off in EU
  • Poland marks Katyn massacre anniversary
  • Hungary votes to join EU, puzzles over low turnout
  • New Vilnius mayor suspended
  • Vilnius stalls on toxic fuel transit
  • Government approves Kaliningrad transit rules
  • Youth swapped for age
  • Soldiers to be paid well
  • Head postman sacked
  • Cooperation stems illegal immigrant tide
  • Students protest at allowance abolition
  • Euroskeptics receive much-needed cash
  • Anti-EU forces mobilizing against referendums
  • Whistle-stopping Eurobus
  • In Brief
  • Athens to assuage allies
  • Tartu getting innovative
  • Political intrigue embroils Lithuania
  • Crack-down in Belarus doesn't let up
  • First taxpaying lady of night
  • Objectivity first casualty as Russian media slam U.S.A.
  • Euroskeptics given room for maneuver
  • Scots invade second city
  • Mechanical snags cast doubt on LAL's Saab fleet
  • Aldaris sponsors hockey
  • Road, border contracts riddled with cracks
  • Foreigners banned from rural land
  • Riga safe, secure for Eurovision
  • April blizzard devastates
  • Estonia's new government ready
  • Eastern Europe supports Bush but stays out of war
  • In Brief
  • Baltic stocks some of best in world
  • Uncovering Latvia's WWII navy
  • EU media blitz underway ahead of vote
  • EU launches first peacekeeping operation
  • Finnish shun alliance
  • Slovakia approves NATO treaty despite opposition
  • Does the EU believe in God?
  • MPs protest Belarus
  • Seer continues to bewitch media
  • Visa talks with Russia break down again
  • Background check could delay top cop appointement
  • Diabetes patients to get drivers' licenses
  • Journalist fined for defamation
  • New Parliament meets while awaiting new Cabinet
  • In Brief
  • Shelves, farms still free of that Frankenfood
  • For Balts, NATO not dead
  • Violent demonstration at U.S. Embassy
  • Cyprus reunification plan fails
  • Eastern Europe tightens security as war begins
  • Czechs to support EU overwhelmingly
  • Slovenians support both NATO, EU membership
  • Estonia backs nuclear idea
  • Limits of free speech to be tested
  • Threats, accusations follow Kaliningrad negotiations
  • Repse's popularity sinks
  • European court to hear Zdanoka out
  • AirB introduces private aviation in the Baltics
  • New funding pursued for HIV prevention
  • Income-tax-rate deal unites political coalition
  • Honeymoon over, Cold War talk back
  • EU candidates seek to ease tensions
  • In Brief
  • Medics gear up for Iraq deployment
  • Balts back war, pledge non-combat troops
  • Embattled NATO faces new test in Iraq
  • EU Parliament defends air passengers
  • Iraq clouds military missions
  • War could spark recession in Europe
  • Mayor vows to make Vilnius more people friendly
  • European court upholds crucial land case
  • Executive producer of Eurovision demoted
  • Health care employees fight for better wages
  • 'People's campaign' to promote discussion on EU
  • Coalition breakthrough expected this week
  • Finland's Center Party faces tough coalition talks after election win
  • In Brief
  • Jaeaetteenmaeki - new trailblazer in Finnish politics
  • Sour Georgia on Lithuania's mind
  • Status quo likely to continue in Finland
  • East European women place hope in EU
  • Malta approves EU membership - barely
  • U.S. recognizes Lithuania's economy
  • Press hounds Paksas' mystic friend
  • Newspaper refuses to run Nazi-hunting ad
  • Paksas pays brief visit to northern neighbor
  • Government abruptly reverses early election decision
  • New, serious: a Res Publica profile
  • Brand Estonia project shaping up positively
  • Concordia could face bankruptcy
  • Leaked report targets Lipponen
  • In Brief
  • Baltic corruption still rampant
  • Ventspils' fate decided next week
  • Four-party coalition talks underway
  • Enlargement could repair ties
  • Czech Republic: philosopher to follow writer
  • Report: NATO critical of Danish defense
  • Iraq compounds EU convention worries
  • Transit form angers Russians
  • Amendment extends EU vote to two days
  • Military reform plan adopted
  • 80-year-old man accused of genocide pleads not guilty
  • Presidential elections moved up three months
  • Concordia University looking for state bailout
  • Waterloo for Russian parties
  • Deputy mayor arrested for graft
  • Moving bases eastward
  • In Brief
  • NATO's Robertson calls for improvement
  • Paksas takes oath, begins term
  • Res Publica, Center Party win vote
  • Danes target Europe's only neo-Nazi radio station
  • Denmark extends house arrest for ex-Iraqi army chief
  • Exhibit tackles Stalin, Russia's demons
  • Baltic Sea needs special status, protection
  • Kaunas to be a Rail Baltic hub
  • New president's advisers strike different note
  • Pro-Chechen conference sparks diplomatic tension
  • Slim majority in favor of joining NATO
  • Two sentenced in first major trafficking case
  • Latvians luge to first ever medals
  • Despite scandal, Eurovision prep on schedule
  • E-university plan tripped up by opposition
  • Estonians punching above weight at ski tournament
  • City, residents recoil at U.S. bunker in Tallinn
  • Central, Eastern Europe slam Chirac
  • In Brief
  • Baltics still a haven for piracy
  • Center Party likely to win elections
  • Russia's communists a dying breed
  • Washington won't cut farm subsidies alone
  • Denmark wants limitations on labor market
  • Poland's EU referendum could last two days
  • Mandatory referendum
  • Chechen separatist gets Lithuanian citizenship
  • President-elect Paksas making few friends
  • Jurkans, Harmony Party out on their own
  • High court orders Lavents retrial
  • Regional leader calls for flexible integration policy
  • PM adviser quits amid anonymous accusations
  • Intellectual hub without the spokes
  • Presidents unfazed by mass protests
  • Chirac lashes out at Vilnius 10, Baltics
  • In Brief
  • Balts struggle to keep pace with U.S. visa requirements
  • Low turnout at anti-war protests
  • Tanker pulled afloat off Denmark
  • Trade unions end ties with Social Democrats
  • Solana to Ukraine: relations with Europe under risk
  • EU candidates under Brussels' watchful eye
  • Poll: minorities cast ballots for Paksas
  • Dudayev street under doubt
  • Peter the Great statue still without a home
  • More children born out of wedlock
  • Two die in Tallinn plane crash
  • Ex-KGB agents offered cash
  • Estonia bans hepatitis B vaccine as safety precaution
  • Politician threatens action over tape
  • Diplomats scramble to heal NATO schism
  • In Brief
  • Lithuanian economy steaming ahead
  • Paksas dogged by allegations
  • Baltic leaders, people split on Iraq
  • Beasts prefer organic foods
  • New study: Swedish alcohol consumption at record high
  • Robertson to Finns: drop Cold War views
  • U's Patten kicks off emergency tour
  • Keeping faith: an HIV story
  • Reporters recruited to spy
  • City council promises Eurovision show will go on
  • Admiral elected to reform, lead Latvia's armed forces
  • Employment contracts anger government
  • Latvia bows to European court on Lavents case
  • Russian indifference angers Finns
  • Right-wing parties consider coalition
  • English conquers Central Europe in language revolution
  • In Brief
  • Transit blocked
  • Baltics make inroads against HIV
  • Minister resigns amid pre-election scandal
  • Swedes, Danes favor adopting euro
  • Eastern Europe may switch stance on war in Iraq
  • Kaliningrad transit issues get thornier
  • Another tough EU reform: accepting homosexual unions
  • Land privatization amendment passed
  • Klaipeda dolphins to give children therapy
  • Minister won't step down over bribery accusations
  • Latvian navy gets Norwegian mine ship
  • Five killed in road accident
  • Wiesenthal Center ad left unprinted
  • NASA satellite may keep eye on Estonian forests
  • Accord proposal garners support
  • Poles shuttle to Belgium for work
  • Fear, fatigue and stink of gas in dark Grozny
  • Russian army feeds off Chechen oil
  • Young police crusader cleans house
  • Alcohol poisoning suspects convicted
  • Despite expansion, Swedes, Finns remain NATO-skeptic
  • Russian media hailed, warned
  • Franco-German proposal debated
  • Trafficking ring arrested
  • Jostling for position in parliament
  • Riga mayor targets Diena
  • Proposal would put intelligence operations in PM Repse's hands
  • Brussels, Babel and Estonian
  • Tax debate turns partners back into adversaries
  • Candidates see clouds in EU future
  • EU puts spotlight on non-citizens' rights
  • Defense, transport dominate PM meeting
  • Moscow balks at travel restrictions
  • 20th century hero steps down
  • Scandinavia gears up for referendums
  • Palace renovation proceeding well
  • New rightist coalition formed
  • Popular Riga restaurant suspected of credit card fraud
  • EU, NATO help break left-wing bloc
  • Oil tanker runs aground
  • Icebreakers clearing frozen way
  • Tourism board: Tallinn must prepare for 850th
  • Lithuania remembers tragedy
  • America in eyes of Eastern Europe
  • In Brief
  • Eurovision tickets sell out, despite frustration
  • Ventspils' oil draught to worsen
  • Paksas' first challenge: retouching his image
  • Kaliningraders fear isolation behind ‘blue curtain’ of EU
  • Finnish defense policy guided by will of people
  • Greece takes over critical EU presidency
  • Paksas promises new style
  • Ministers give themselves fat raise
  • Latvia’s prison chief takes his leave
  • Skele calls it quits, hands over reins of party
  • Russian minority slow in learning Estonian
  • Culture bureaucrat sentenced
  • Light shed on tanker accident
  • In Brief
  • Estonia speaks commerce in heart of Big Apple
  • Lithuania gets new president
  • Falling birth rates spell problems
  • Lynxes, finches not quite so happy
  • Police arrest two in cyberfraud incident
  • Estonian labor force may flow to Europe
  • Minorities anticipate changes, naturalization
  • EU preparations help reinvent language
  • Brussels committed to transit deal
  • ELTA shares to change hands
  • Tanker incident causes scare, outrage
  • Looking back on the ‘Year of Invitations'
  • Gearing up for hard sell on EU membership
  • Balts invited to join EU family
  • False nuclear alarm in Baltics
  • EU initiates talks to engage Iran on trade, security
  • Franco-German axis squeezes Britain
  • Minister: Balts to be NATO diplomats to East
  • Ambitious national budget passed by Parliament
  • Analysts: Adamkus all but home free
  • Police chief suspended
  • Ministers fight for pieces of budget pie
  • PM not to pull plug on film industry
  • Repse pledges to keep 2003 budget deficit low
  • Lynx and bear remain game
  • Overcrowded prisons problem rises again
  • Police officer killed in road accident
  • Enlarged EU: key world power or unwieldy giant?
  • Key dates in the formation of the European Union
  • Building financial bridge between East, West
  • EU negotiations go down to wire
  • Minister: Swedish ‘yes' on euro will influence Denmark's decision
  • Expansion poses EU identity questions
  • EU candidates battling illegal immigration
  • Energy regulator gets boost from EU
  • Genocide investigations against Lithuanians proceed
  • Governor, envoys work out devilish details
  • Three Bolsheviks charged
  • Lavents ruling also a verdict on judicial system
  • Battling epidemic of modern slavery
  • Progressive tax debate revived
  • Estonia geared to get better terms
  • Denmark releases Chechen rebel envoy
  • Memorial to 26,000 who died in Holocaust unveiled
  • Old tanker in Muuga port alarms Europe
  • Eastern Europe's roads still a building site
  • Kuchma ceremoniously snubbed at summit
  • Danish-Russian tensions mounting fast
  • Ministry to intensify military preparedness
  • Largest deportation trial ever begins
  • Christmas market, Santa return to Doma Square
  • Government begins crack-down
  • Key integration post created by new government
  • Euphoria subsides, hard work, challenges ahead
  • Invitation to security alliance in hand
  • Bush congratulates Baltic invitees
  • EU still haggling with candidates over agricultural aid
  • Lukashenko barred from NATO summit
  • Professionals leave Central Europe public sector
  • Adamkus welcomes environmental accord
  • Politicians promise Russians support, understanding
  • Sprucing up town for Bush, First Lady
  • Hockey stadium agreement signed
  • Making cities, countries brand names
  • EU jitters lead to call for ad campaign
  • Women emissaries meet in Parnu
  • New prison causes conflict between city, ministry
  • City water supplier takes loan, lays off workers
  • Baltics: Second-rate members?
  • Briefs
  • NATO's three newest members lag behind
  • National security - finally guaranteed
  • EU mulling alternative to ban on cod fishing
  • Zakhaev unlikely to be extradited to Russia
  • Terrorist scare puts security on high alert
  • Vilnius tightens security for Bush
  • Presidential elections appear predetermined
  • New foreign minister: Latvia to step up contributions to NATO, EU
  • New Cabinet
  • Promising transparency, Repse proclaims "new era"
  • Students' living allowances to be slashed next year
  • MP steps down because of son's shoplifting
  • Environment minister under Green pressure
  • Off the wire
  • Luzhkov predicts warmer relations
  • EU, Russia finally clinch Kaliningrad deal
  • NATO issues last-minute reprimand
  • Religion bill seen as coup for Orthodox Church
  • Kuchma insists he will attend NATO summit
  • Jailed Chechen envoy could land in Belgium or Britain
  • Chechens down chopper as Moscow steps up offensive
  • Russians turn up heat on Chechens in Vilnius
  • Reporters uncover illegal immigrant network
  • Ambassador: time running out for exclave
  • Kuchma opens institute, visits mega-mall
  • Latvian conscript in Havana recalls Cuban crisis
  • Language broadcast law to be reviewed
  • Two party chairs quit after parties fail at polls
  • In support of Chechen cause
  • Canteens facing mass closure
  • Rare Estonian regalia to return home
  • Riga reconsiders Chechen leader
  • Briefs
  • Vike-Freiberga picks Repse to head government
  • Veteran security officer sentenced
  • Swedes increasingly keen on euro while Danish support down
  • Moscow hostage crisis ends tragically with 118 dead
  • Language problems in local Estonia
  • Admirals say no rough seas for NATO naval cooperation
  • State pushes for last minute corporate tax, debt relief
  • Severance pay for defeated deputies sparks anger
  • Lithuania to buy Stinger missiles
  • Constitutional Court: Journalists must reveal sources
  • Vilnius signals agreement on EU Kaliningrad deal
  • Final fight for better deal
  • Funding deal starts countdown to enlargement
  • Briefs
  • Latvians recount Moscow hostage ordeal
  • Lithuania, Poland bordering on changes
  • Russia wants troops treaty before NATO
  • New Swedish Cabinet eyes euro
  • Radical Catholics fight Poland's EU bid
  • Day-old Danish metro system grinds to a halt
  • Twenty candidates for president
  • Breakthrough on Kaliningrad visa impasse
  • Brazauskas to talk Ignalina in Brussels
  • Latvia to free prisoners under European Union pressure
  • KGB accusations sink Krupnikovs' candidacy
  • Estonia to correct passport snafu
  • Well-paid farewell for Lavia's MPs
  • Soros encourages confidence, active engagement with EU
  • Briefs
  • Estonians vote for stability and cabbages
  • Parties talk on splitting the spoils
  • Balts rejoice over Irish endorsement
  • Communism still haunts Eastern European publishers
  • Finnish bomber may have found recipe on Internet
  • Irish voters hold enlargement in their hands
  • Ignalina reactors to close only with EU aid: Parliament
  • Bush to meet Baltic leaders after NATO summit
  • Lithuanian cyclist's wife freed from French jail
  • Open coalition meetings draw curious crowd
  • EU warns Baltics not to expect more funding
  • Briefs
  • Latvia beats Poland to go top
  • Reports open EU door wider
  • Elections likely to consolidate coalition power
  • Parliament OKs corruption czar
  • Repse picks partners, spurns Skele
  • Russian wheat next load for Baltic ports
  • Finns ready for NATO?
  • Russia insists on railway corridor
  • Poll shows grass not always greener in EU
  • Lithuania deports its first "persona non grata"
  • Lithuanian writers show their work to the world
  • "Priests' party" aims at spiritual Saeima
  • NATO exercises in Estonia
  • State audit criticizes passenger train subsidies
  • Lithuania push for NATO referendum
  • "Zapchyol" a suprising second
  • Briefs
  • Kallas suggests reshuffling jobs, including his
  • Fire rips through Ekranas plant
  • Out with the old, in with New Era
  • Holocaust conference sheds new light on crimes
  • Election Primer
  • Social Dems court older voters
  • Digital divide widens in e-stonia
  • Big hotel bills raise question of perks
  • Briefs
  • Irish EU vote unclear: poll
  • Lithuania to end visa-free travel
  • Yet another rainbow Parliament?
  • Sacking poisons coalition
  • Swedish hunter accidentally kills Lithuanian tourist
  • AIDS exploding in Eastern Europe: U.N.
  • Ireland sets date for EU enlargement vote
  • Baltic Sea protection under discussion
  • Jewish quarter restortion wins official approval
  • Adamkus, Paulauskas square off in TV debate
  • Parliament angers Afghan war veterans
  • Hungry Swede crosses Baltic Sea the hard way
  • Politicians criticize Jurkans-Putin meeting
  • Defense spending reaches ceiling
  • Estonia aligns defense priorities with NATO's
  • Teaching others to speak the EU's language
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Briefs
  • Parliament again rejects anti-corruption nominee
  • Kaliningrad residents balk at EU plan
  • Campaign heats up, hinge party cools
  • Lukashenko sends rest of OSCE packing
  • Danish court rules in favor of journalist
  • Swedes clear: "Don't touch our welfare state"
  • Williams deal cuts into EU support
  • Lithuania legalizes dual citizenship
  • More Napoleonic remains found
  • Trial of ex-Soviet agent opens in Jelgava
  • Polish court to hand over suspect in 2001 Estonian killing spree
  • State audit examines police departments
  • HIV expert doubts Kallas' competence-center plan
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Briefs
  • Poverty exploding in Eastern Europe: report
  • New laws and a new campaign
  • EU farms chief offers hope
  • Exclave visa deal on table
  • Sweden asks Finns to take refugees
  • Ex-Koenigsburgers return
  • Berezovsky wields wealth in battle against Putin
  • Researchers confirm 14th-century coin finding
  • Smog blankets Vilnius, health problems result
  • HIV-positive student barred from first day of school
  • Enthusiasts pursue cheap flight dreams
  • Four Russian parties join forces
  • Bush, Kallas talk NATO in D.C.
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Briefs
  • Life in a post-Ignalina town
  • Minorities still not working for state
  • Mystery surrounds Dane's killing
  • Adamkus will run again
  • Danish police bug journalist, newspaper to get at Islamic source
  • Finland ready for NATO: defense official
  • In Denmark, theatrical flourish to EU debate
  • Britain, Italy break EU ranks over court
  • Lithuania, Yukos open talks
  • Cyclist's wife still held in France
  • Government nominates anti-corruption chief
  • Latvia more corrupt than Belarus?
  • Genome lab opens door to future
  • Chatty convicts concern Finnish, Estonian cops
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Briefs
  • Estonia revamps criminal codes
  • Three killed in shipyard gas leak
  • Survey criticizes school plan
  • Accused Nazi back in Estonia
  • Long distance disconnections at phone-tossing contest
  • Denmark offers cash to refugees who leave
  • Belarus rejects proposal to join Russia
  • New Russia: dinner and a cockfight
  • Jews complain of football match anti-Semitism
  • Adamkus on election fence
  • Embattled MP's aide found murdered
  • Berzins faltering: poll
  • NATO bids not at risk over criminal court: U.S.A.
  • Savisaar accused of vote buying
  • Russia condemns partisan trial underway in Valga court
  • Estonia embraces university degree revamp
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Estonians provide summit example
  • Briefs
  • Police arrest two in debit card scam
  • Copyright case rooted in Estonia
  • Lithuania frets over Yukos
  • Lukashenko tries to make peace with Putin
  • Book sheds light on Sweden's Nazi ties
  • Getting naked at Helsinki photo shoot
  • Suspects questioned for prosecutor's murder
  • Festival digs up Vilnius' Yiddish roots
  • Latvian goalie's Premiere League career under threat
  • Ruling cripples Adamsons' political career
  • War ruins win day over developers
  • Estonia ups budget, raises IMF ire
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Bag limit weighed
  • Briefs
  • Williams out, Yukos taking over
  • Minister quits amid embezzlement probe
  • Baltics skirt EU-U.S. row
  • Finland expels Gypsy refugees
  • Perfume makers stinking mad
  • Survivors struggle to recall gulag nightmare
  • EU, NATO top agenda
  • Kaliningrad issue remains unsolved
  • U.S. A. optimistic on NATO
  • NATO boosters out to educate voters
  • Past catches up with Adamsons
  • Parts enters poltical arena
  • Kallas heading to U.S.A.
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  • Polls say Latvians favoring new strongman
  • Drug tests put Rumsas in clear
  • Tolstoys stage family reunion
  • EU states clamp down on immigrants
  • Mystery Lithuanians land in Canada
  • Rumsas refuses return to France
  • Garda enters election ring
  • Latvia-palooza: A tribute in Chicago
  • Veteran denies Nazi charges
  • Booleg booze case could put 18 in jail
  • Latvian teens beaten in Tartu
  • Party says it's conservative alternative
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Briefs
  • Corruption report hits president's office
  • Hospitals, doctors under fire
  • Voters cool on joining EU family
  • Sorokin faces porn charges
  • Jews slam Belarus for ignoring anti-Semitism
  • Russian plane crashes, at least 14 dead
  • Academic wants Kaliningrad tunnel
  • Several tons of oil feared spilled in Lithuania
  • Russia gives its blessing on NATO
  • Ex-Prime Minister Kristopans decides to go green
  • Anti-corruption efforts tripped up, again
  • E-government for Americans
  • Suspected Nazi on the lamb
  • EU envoy named chancellor
  • History debate in Parnu
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Estonian Parliament backs electoral blocs
  • Doping scandal dogs cycling star
  • Moscow growls at NATO
  • Russians alarmed by Azeri language law
  • Chirac backs Russia on Kaliningrad visas
  • Zokiniai air base looked at for NATO use
  • Human skeletons emerge from Vilnius street
  • Italian Embassy discussed
  • On immigration
  • EU support increases in June
  • Norwegian ex-pat faces fraud
  • Bellies full of bootleg booze
  • Plans halted for WWII memorial
  • Money requested for evicted tenants
  • Cursory Nazi probe rejected
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Briefs
  • Musicians sue party over racy ad
  • Top official sacked after arrest
  • Kaliningrad visa battle heats up
  • Lukashenko hints at friendlier relationship with NATO
  • Kaliningraders want old name Koenigsberg back
  • Needle exchange vital to stem AIDS: experts
  • Farmer's well causes leak in Belarus border
  • Belarusian emigres, exiles back Baltic NATO bid
  • Soviet military spouse case could set legal precedent
  • Eurovision diva bridges Latvia's minority gap
  • Land ban proposed
  • Big kroons for local vote
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Briefs
  • Irritant algae bloom leads to beach warning
  • Opinion polling center's director stabbed
  • Party offers language test alternative
  • OMON soldiers acquitted
  • Wanted: last of the Nazi war criminals
  • Desperate step of NATO-skeptics
  • NATO talk
  • Lott marks Holocaust day
  • Estonian troops heading for Afghanistan
  • Saaremaa islanders want bridge
  • A new meaning for carrying the bride
  • Conflicts divide ethnic Russian parties
  • In Brief
  • Ukraine lumbers onto NATO's radar
  • Slovakia's NATO bid not clinched
  • Baltic Timeline
  • Head National Bolshevik on trial in Russia
  • Swedish and Finnish towns tear down borders
  • No extra time for EU candidates
  • Verheugen OKs land-sale transition
  • NATO's door opens to Baltics
  • Census shows big changes
  • Lithuanian lawmakers ban sex and violence on TV
  • Jailed Latvian cyclist released on bail
  • Party banks on the beautiful game
  • EU popularity climbing slowly, poll shows
  • Estonian navy officer kills family, himself
  • Few votes cast in Harju Street poll
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Drug use triples among teenagers
  • Beauty pageant fails to impress Belarus' gays
  • Enlargement tops Danish EU stint
  • Shipping company sale lands in court
  • No payments to ex-slave laborers
  • Latvian army readies for NATO nod
  • Brave tales of an English teacher and a survivor
  • Latvia offers space for Radio Free Europe HQ
  • Far-right party ad banned by state TV
  • Surveys show birthrates, depression up
  • Young Narvans set to conquer Bothnia
  • More money goes to health insurance
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Kangaroo king's presidential bid
  • Finnish-Estonian drug ring busted
  • Children suffocate in trunk
  • Russian deputies to challenge sovereignty over Vilnius
  • More inmates join prison hunger strike
  • Falling balconies cause Riga concern
  • Minister doubts EU's honesty
  • Estonia to legalize its private detectives
  • Tallinn mayor faces no-confidence vote
  • Off the wire
  • Putin personality cult spreads in textbooks, statuettes
  • Denmark to slash foreign aid in 2003
  • Swedes against joining NATO, says PM
  • East mirrors West on electoral map
  • Liquor ban draws mixed reaction
  • Vote on fate of symbolic ruins
  • Pro-Tibet protest crushed
  • Parliament refuses pensions to apparatchiks
  • Latvians demand cycling star's release from Lithuanian jail
  • History buffs relive Napoleon's march
  • School language test now good for naturalization
  • Swedish couple "disregard" adoption law
  • Clinton on stump in Tallinn
  • Water regs pass
  • Drug activist spots corruption in funds distribution
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Russia-Belarus union issue "not simple"
  • Jiang brings kind words, protests
  • Bergman donates rare footage, writings
  • Putin: Kaliningrad plan "worse than Cold War"
  • EU stumbles over enlargement farm aid
  • Rumsfeld lauds Baltic NATO push
  • U.S. report details Baltic sex trade
  • EU agrees on Ignalina funding
  • U.S. report details Baltic sex trade
  • EU agrees on Ignalina funding
  • Exciting championship for all ages
  • Presidential election campaign to kick off
  • Doctors, nurses schedule walkouts
  • Repse unhappy with anti-corruption efforts
  • Fighting for Roma rights and remembrance
  • Deportation anniversary prompts call for games boycott
  • Russian MP praises Russian-Estonian relations
  • Oldest Tallinn church damaged in fire
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Booze and cig business booms pending clampdown
  • Human rights abuses continue in Chechnya
  • Belarus expels OSCE diplomats
  • HIV outbreak in prison shocks Lithuania
  • President lobbies for Irish "yes"
  • National and world poetry in action
  • Slayings: suspects named
  • Foreigners win right to vote in elections
  • Lutheran pastor defrocked for promoting homosexuality
  • Defense Ministry reveals satellite ambitions
  • Europe's speakers descend on Riga
  • Communism bill postponed due to Chinese visit
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Nuclear strong-arm tactics advised
  • Kaliningrad conundrum threatens EU progress
  • Powell for further expansion
  • NATO, Russia upgrade ties at Italy summit
  • The next step after winning the contest
  • Latvia clinches Eurovision
  • Lithuanians murdered in Northern Ireland
  • Anti-Soviet rebellion remembered
  • Survey finds Latvian language alive and kicking
  • 'Red partisan' on second trial for war crimes
  • No ban on alliances before election: Kallas
  • Constitutional changes launched to join EU
  • Chief of staff resigns as military reform continues
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Unifying language returns to Lithuanian home
  • Terrorist funds went via Latvia: FBI
  • Ex-Soviet republics launch new military structure
  • EU enlargement to carry on despite far-right
  • Hockey championship in doubt
  • Narva River cleared of mines
  • New war pensions stir controversy
  • Row over right for foreigners to be elected
  • Ventspils man kills acquaintance, himself
  • What the amendments mean for Latvia
  • Clinton to speak about globalization
  • Victory Day opens old wounds
  • Students angry as Cabinet keeps allowances down
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Teen detained after tragic death
  • Russia warms up to NATO
  • Soviet crimes compensated
  • Monument divides society on Victory Day
  • Lithuania throws Europe-size party
  • Law change clears path to NATO
  • May Day holiday returns to Lithuania
  • Election law vote pending
  • Welfare minister fired as scandal picks up speed
  • Social Dems want elected president, KGB reprieve
  • Estonia moves to toughen punishment for drug crimes
  • Royal couple pay visit
  • Traditional day of protest loses red color
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Russian pleas for Kaliningrad transit corridor rejected
  • Peace Corps leaves the Baltics
  • Russia-NATO talks fail to break "council of 20" stalemate
  • U.S. adopts more-is-better NATO formula
  • EU to finance border demarcation
  • Duo in cross-border killing spree
  • Vilnius hosts Europe, wins prestige
  • MP shocks with NATO referendum proposal
  • Vilnius ponders new tram line
  • Latvian students show strain from heavy bags
  • Hockey team off to slow start
  • Legal changes anger Latvian distillery
  • Invented names may be banned
  • Web keeps spreading in Estonia
  • EU seeks death-penalty pledges
  • Belarus wants Ignalina
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Russian-language papers change hands
  • Special NATO roles for Baltics
  • Lithuanian Jews warn of growing anti-Semitism
  • Lithuania picks up its trash
  • Discussing a new role in fighting terrorism
  • Corruption cops coming, business people fret
  • Pre-election party funding under scrutiny
  • Buy stone, save square
  • Tartu shocked by double shooting
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Orthodox church finally registered
  • Putin demands "equal" role with NATO
  • OSCE tries to defuse Belarus crisis
  • Sunken WW II weapons could ooze poison, say scientists
  • High costs of closing down Ignalina plant
  • Far-right publisher faces libel
  • Lithuanians and Poles bicker over spelling of names
  • Latvian basketball on playoff stage
  • Cabinet okays additional budget
  • Plight of Narva's homeless worsens
  • Thousands of residents scramble for new housing
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Car bomb injures shadowy businessman
  • Latvia chooses hockey arena builder
  • Russia and Belarus to form common
  • OSCE envoy forced to leave Belarus
  • Church needed to rally Poles around EU
  • Estonian farmers want fair quotas from EU
  • Ruling muddies path to election law reform
  • Plans for Jewish quarter unveiled
  • Baltic troops prepare for explosive missions
  • Court rules in favor of pensioners
  • Students juggle Russian life, Latvian schooling
  • Wiesenthal Center says Nazi criminals go unpunished
  • Anti-drugs activist asks Putin for help
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Fire damages newspaper office
  • Electoral blocs face axing
  • Estonia's millionaires club grows
  • Knock, knock, knockin' on NATO's door
  • Sex trade scars Baltic women
  • Uzupis gets angel, and nutty speeches
  • Classroom spills into courtroom
  • Riga-Stockholm ferry to restart
  • Judge injured in accidental shooting
  • Rowdy fans mar win over Russia
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Tallinners and police chief clash over survey
  • Basketball star plays for home team
  • Strong words in Lithuanian president's annual address
  • Summer time returns to two Baltic states
  • Switch to Estonian optional for Russian schools
  • Lithuania still suicide capital
  • Ice couple again protests getting no medals
  • B'Avarija flops before ever taking the stage
  • Baltic countries broadcast controversial film
  • Nations give cash for integration
  • NATO case taken on the road
  • Jury still out on Estonia's EU approval
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Joint action pledged at Vilnius summit
  • Telia-Sonera merger brings consolidation
  • Ilves on the election law
  • Swiss group proposes massive hockey arena
  • Ministries merger aims for efficiency
  • Antarctica next on explorer's list
  • OSCE provokes language scandal
  • Bloody end to story of legendary hijackers
  • Presidential pension for Landsbergis rejected
  • The rise of paintball: colorful warfare
  • Viski wants radar in its backyard
  • Birds warm up for Eurovision
  • Party enrolls members without their consent
  • Two bombs rock center of Tallinn
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Anti-Russia mood in Kaliningrad
  • Baltic ministers show unity with Rumsfeld
  • Missing radioactive fuel uncovered
  • Little progress in treatment of juvenile inmates
  • Lithuania could be disqualified from Eurovision
  • Surprise discovery of Napoleonic burial site
  • SS unit supporters arrested
  • Paksas heads new Liberal Democrats
  • Lithuania's NATO membership doesn't scare Ivanov
  • Latvian security police to investigate paranormal cult
  • Russians angry at radio station shutdown
  • Human rights report misleading says activist
  • Debates deepen around Saaremaa bridge project
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • President wants harsher penalties for drug dealers
  • Teachers indicted for abusing handicapped students
  • Mass deportation case pending
  • Riga court frees jailed Stalinist agent
  • Kaliningrad visa issue aired
  • Anti-corruption hunger striker deported
  • Estonian, Latvian security details linked to traffic death
  • Riga government mulls cops in schools
  • Police pledge Tallinn will get safer
  • Young Cabinet hires even younger advisers
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Online memorial project faces criticism
  • Cultural ambassador dies in Paris
  • Kaliningrad focus as Baltic, Russian leaders meet
  • Aznar stands by EU plans in face of Baltic criticism
  • Latvian vets put NATO before annual march
  • Adamkus lashes out on Ignalina
  • Lithuanian stabbing tragedy in Ireland
  • Treasures from Australia and the Pacific
  • Sparse use of Latvian sparks protest in Daugavpils
  • Divided city looks to EU to improve relations
  • Estonians key link in Finnish drug market
  • Cabinet changes focus of Brand Estonia project
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Bolshevik sympathizer protests NATO visit
  • Robertson praises Lithuanian progress
  • Latvian journalists protest firing of LTV head
  • Controversy the name of the game at Olympics
  • Doping scandal brings silver to Estonia
  • Children's favorite poet was Soviet agent
  • NATO demands change in law
  • Wives of missing Belarusians make plea
  • Britain amends immigrant worker regulations
  • Estonian-Latvian film gets prestigious award
  • Woman wins sex discrimination case against prison
  • Ice fishermen gather to determine world's best
  • Estonians gear up for Independence Day
  • Tartu opens e-university
  • Tuberculosis threatens orphanage
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Controversy clouds Lithuanian dance finish
  • Opposition unveils plans
  • New Cabinet throws out old bills
  • Latvia considers voting rights for EU citizens
  • Independence gets stylish
  • Lithuanian farmers battle rush of early floods
  • Greens act against McDonald's "poor food"
  • Latvia busts passport scam in anti-terrorism crackdown
  • EU seeks steady tobacco tax rise
  • High-profile killings turn spotlight on police
  • Fischer declines to name NATO names
  • Minister suspected of lobbying for drug giants
  • Couple fights for love and marriage
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Vike-Freiberga passes on harsh U.S. warning
  • Anger as policemen urinate on palace
  • Prusis back in Olympics after winning appeal
  • Latvia's hockey team stumbles
  • Gold and bronze delight Estonia
  • Estonia blows its own trumpet
  • Castle clings to collapsing hilltop
  • Kaliningrad problems hit Council of Europe
  • Top official on mission to open doors
  • Another hurdle for Latvian bobsled captain
  • Balts react to anti-NATO magazine article
  • Policemen's sins made public
  • New education minister supports Russian schools
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Skiing star's final test negative
  • Eurovision entry faces hard times
  • Women priests fear U.S. church's spreading influence
  • Valuable scrolls returned to Jewish owners
  • Baltics stunned as EU plans to slash aid
  • Former battalion member surfaces in Canada
  • Lithuania liberalizes liquor legislation
  • Family of ex-KGB agent complains to European court
  • Dissent forces postponement of abortion vote
  • Expulsion tug of war in international court
  • Estonia unveils Baltics' youngest Cabinet
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Minsk indignant at Adamkus' criticism
  • Finance minister shows off e-portfolio
  • Doping scandal threatens Estonia's Olympic hopes
  • Ex-cons demand better life after prison
  • Battle could harm Latvia's EU, NATO chances
  • First Estonian ID cards issued
  • Ruutel defends Soviet past on visit to Lithuania
  • Defense minister faces raucous residents
  • Riga set to ban night-time sale of alcohol
  • Flower girl put under strong eye of mother
  • Just who is Siim Kallas?
  • Heated debate disrupts planned summit
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Whether five or seven, the Baltics are in
  • High-profile visit boosts NATO hopes
  • MP offended by crude ad stereotypes
  • Corruption-busting program approved
  • Savisaar adviser quits over accusations of fraud
  • Bobsled captain wins reprieve - and ticket to Olympics
  • Hated Soviet accomplice released from prison
  • Kallas to form new government
  • Paksas kicked out of Liberal Union
  • Women drivers escape doctors' clutches
  • Flags and speeches mark Defenders of Freedom Day
  • Suspected judge killer released
  • New duties stop shuttle trade
  • Journalist attacked in downtown Riga
  • Rural residents rage against radar
  • Caucasus Estonians could block Putin's way to ski resort
  • Reform and Center parties to unite in coalition
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Baltics resist drug law liberalization
  • Estonia expects medals in cross-country skiing
  • Lithuania awaits first medal
  • By skate, ski and sled: Latvia's Olympic high hopes
  • U.S.-Estonian energy deal falls through
  • Balts reject Russian NATO demand
  • Adamkus wants happy family
  • Election and a possible invitation make this a big year
  • Latvia to probe into misleading CNN story
  • What the leaders had to say on the eve
  • Latvia looks forward to eventful, prosperous 2002
  • Ruutel says it was greed that split the nation
  • Nation interrupted: expectations for 2002
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Baltic blizzards strand motorists
  • At last, France pays for Baltic pre-WWII embassies
  • Influential paper slams Russia's Baltic politics
  • Protracted Lavents' bank trial concludes
  • Laar resigns, ruling block in tatters
  • Lithuania 2001: peddling through a frenzied year
  • Latvia 2001: riding the red wave to Riga 800
  • Estonia 2001: old face and a winning song
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • U.S. citizen suspected of child porn
  • Explosion at match factory kills six
  • EU stops dragging heels, declares would-be members
  • OSCE closures boost EU and NATO hopes
  • Savisaar conquers Tallinn
  • Further cause for NATO optimism
  • Labor force approaches EU realm
  • Ex-mayor charged in Swedish ship case
  • President pardons cop killer
  • Court hears shocking case of negligence
  • Meri supports new party
  • Crime prevention to focus on youth
  • Estonia gears up to host Eurovision
  • OFF THR WIRE
  • President calls for popular elections
  • Fishermen report huge losses after spill
  • Council of Europe report alleges police brutality
  • Vike-Freiberga initiates further language changes
  • Shake-up may destroy government
  • Lithuanians shudder in disbelief at bestseller
  • Latvia faces more corruption criticism
  • Making headway on joining EU
  • Central bank head finally resigns for politics
  • Counterfeiters focus on greenbacks
  • Life in Estonia's communes gets better for some
  • Inventor demands money from power company
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Journalist battered to death
  • Russia grumbles as OSCE pulls out
  • Expansion plans steady, says NATO chief
  • MP accused of cheating power company
  • Decapitated body may be that of oil businessman
  • Police unit to combat cemetery hoodlums
  • Fighting for her German husband's name
  • Suspected Rimi bomber accused
  • Probable OSCE closure irritates Moscow
  • Estonia gets advice on how to brand itself
  • OFF THE WIRE
  • Presidents exchange rhetoric on common goals
  • German-funded memorial to help shed light on Holocaust
  • No comment on threats to U.S. ambassador
  • Drug problems shoot up in EU candidate countries
  • One person dies in island plane crash
  • Butinge's biggest oil blunder
  • Man killed by firework explosion
  • Slezevicius wins victory against Lithuanian state
  • Pagans demand status of traditional religion
  • Latvian citizenship for sale, benefits huge
  • Alternative music station hijacked in ownership change
  • Nation puts hands together for independence
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  • Forum throws spotlight on Lithuania
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  • Liberals choose new opposition leader
  • Conflict continues over royal palace project
  • West Point student drops out
  • Infamous publisher promotes anti-gay competition
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  • Striving school gets royal blessing
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  • Baltics right on track to join EU
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  • Nazi victims must claim now for compensation
  • Social Democrats call for EU entry referendums
  • Afghan veterans view war with mixed feelings
  • Guilty teacher gets light sentence
  • Central bank chief fails to illuminate
  • Police jump on online strip club
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  • Germany sheds light on NATO expansion
  • Religious freedom prevails, ghosts of the past remain
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  • Lithuanians flock to greet champion cyclist
  • Naglis - a litmus test for government stability
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  • Suspected Rimi bomber detained by police
  • Northeast gets much-needed attention
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  • Latvian wins EuroAtlantic logo contest
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  • Israel asked to extradite genocide suspect
  • Estonian court sentences Scottish opium smuggler
  • Foreign crime victims lack faith in police
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  • Truth about occupations demanded, crimes forgiven
  • State slowly stirs to stop dog attacks
  • Illegal pork could be on your fork
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  • Baltics' NATO membership chances improve
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  • No-fly zone expands over Ignalina nuclear plant
  • Estonia embarrassed over UNESCO debts
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  • Cardinal hails modern prophet's call to holiness in family
  • Trees to memorialize “Japan's Schindler”
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  • Italian cleared of bank fraud
  • Reuters to cut its Baltic news wire
  • Meri bows out
  • Police step in to stop Estonian-Russian clash
  • Brits to develop Estonian national brand
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  • Foreign military bases not to be located in Latvia
  • U.S. action supported by Baltics
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  • Rough justice for teenagers awaiting trial
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  • Half-price language courses win popularity
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  • Dysentery outbreak prompts state of emergency
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  • Balts mark Olympic anniversary
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  • Two Soviet OMON officers to be tried
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  • Another Lithuanian Nazi suspect beats hangman's noose
  • EU talks offer timely review of Latvia's progress and problems
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  • Latvia and Britain accused of harboring terrorists
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  • Vessel case far from over
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  • Latvia concedes to enlargement skeptics
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  • Russians take on advantageous Estonian names
  • Dalai Lama sets Baltic times in new tour
  • Sand mandala blows spectators away
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  • Vessel branded security threat
  • Freedom of thought under fire in Lithuania
  • Baltics mark Soviet deportations
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  • Terrorist organization claims responsibility for Rimi bombing
  • Estonian army ready for NATO accession
  • Estonia loses big match with own goal
  • Latvia pushes Sweden to reopen road deaths case
  • NATO wannabes meet up with members
  • Chechen refugees prompt sympathy
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  • Tallinn Council elects new mayor
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  • KGB deal prompts calls for investigation
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  • Mois keeps on rocking coalition
  • City council member faces fraud charges
  • Finnish experts give warning about high EU demands
  • Slow pace of integration brought to light
  • Controversy surrounds Baptists
  • Differences evident as Poland and Latvia pledge cooperation
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  • Vilnius prepares to welcome NATO
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  • British Week makes great waves
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  • New storm brews over sea border
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  • Media join hands for new code of ethics
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  • Cause of train derailment unclear
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  • Nazi war crimes in Estonia documented
  • Path to NATO must not be abandoned, say experts
  • Latvians show class in rugby friendly
  • City marches again in protest
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  • Half of draftees have mental problems
  • Latvian president says U.S. trip a success
  • Lithuania postpones closure of Ignalina
  • National Bolsheviks get stiff sentences
  • NBA star to build sports complex
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  • Woman arrested for selling dolls
  • Sick cow sparks foot-and-mouth false alarm
  • Tongues wag at Riga conference
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  • Adamkus shocks and delights in annual address
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  • Business leader and author dies
  • General census of Lithuania completed
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  • Treaty boosts trade with Belarus
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  • Candidates for president continue to be named
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  • Hockey star to build Latvia's first golf course
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  • Company destroys coastline, authorities helpless
  • Fat-cat civil servants' incomes disclosed
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  • Suspected Nazi war criminal dies in Australia
  • Doubts about EU readiness as candidates meet
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  • Court sentences Soviet butcher to life
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  • Hip-hop picket held in front of government
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  • Mumps is Latvia's latest health scare
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  • Language watchdog tightens grip on Lithuania
  • Sick Stalin-era criminal to stay in prison
  • More growth needed to cover EU costs
  • Minister charged with shady privatization
  • Jews hunt millionaire for war crimes
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  • Protest against labor laws
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  • Calls for life imprisonment for ex-Soviet officer
  • Free movement worries EU talks frontman
  • Police and citizens swap money for guns
  • Social Democrats take Riga
  • Law on occupation damages to be revised
  • Order of knights becomes murder gang
  • Latvian Legion veterans skip controversial march
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  • Green activists stage protest to stop hotel
  • Farmers create political divisions
  • EC blackmails Vilnius over Ignalina
  • Riga law school opens with royal pomp
  • Nurses rally to demand pay hike
  • Opposition's next target is PM
  • Newspaper owner killed near home
  • Security firm expands into public services
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  • Lithuania admits seriousness of oil spill
  • Mayor survives vote after strip-club visit
  • Opposition victorious in local elections
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  • Wares plied at traditional fair
  • Young Milosevic rumored to have visited Riga
  • Latvia to vote amid changing political landscape
  • First e-elections to be held in 2002
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  • Doctors demand AIDS tests
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  • Baltic region cleans up its sea
  • Opinions clash over Adamkus' record
  • Liberal MPs argue for liberalizing alcohol laws
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  • New employment strategy introduced
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  • Meri chills Independence Day spirits
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  • Violinist Jascha Heifetz returns in spirit
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  • Fast-track deportation for Russian 'colonist'
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  • Helicopter ambulance planned for take-off
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  • Belgian Premier increases hopes for EU entry
  • Russian defense minister threatens Baltics
  • U.S. officials applaud Gimzauskas conviction
  • Mad cow disease may have reached Estonia
  • European Union leaders call for clear Kaliningrad policy
  • Paksas trumps Prunskiene
  • Russians eager for closer contact
  • Another horrific tale of abuse hits Latvia
  • Hospital told to pay for negligence
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  • Tartu bans Soviet symbol from roadside
  • Army cleans up its act
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  • Leaders lay down mutual ambitions
  • Lithuanian MPs attack aggressive pets
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  • TV interview shames Lithuania
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  • Regional development head steals electricity
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  • Official resigns after drunk driving incident
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  • Laar gets a second chance at the top
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  • Jewish community goes to court over school
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  • Estonia's golden boy back on top
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  • Russian party squeaks into Parliament
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  • Sex discrimination law comes into force
  • Two Kaliningraders caught with drugs
  • EU keeps up heat on Ignalina
  • Court upholds job ban on former KGB members
  • Anniversary rally held without incident
  • Latvia confused about March 16: Jewish community will not mark commemoration day
  • Russia to aid Baltic Russian schools
  • Business leaders urge EU enlargement
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  • Changing faces mean change of the guard
  • Parliament tightens up language requirements
  • Fires, bombs shake up Riga
  • Punsk community vs. Polish state
  • Consensus reached on EU action plan
  • LRT rescue package includes CD and mug sales
  • Will Gecas be extradited from Scotland?
  • Tempers frayed after Geneva child protection talks
  • Kononovs to face new trial on war crimes
  • Sculptor commits his life to flames
  • New school atlas causes offence
  • New president in seven months
  • Off the wire
  • Rights for Russian wanted
  • 'Baltic gene' discovered
  • U.S. crime fighters lay down rules of engagement
  • Sweden's EU presidency a boost for the Baltics
  • Case dropped against anti-Semitic article
  • Adamkus on hot seat in France
  • Breaking physical, psychological borders
  • Duma speaker: Estonia unfit for EU
  • Frequent accidents spawn new road rules
  • It's in with Finn for Lattelekom
  • New group offers spiritual medicine
  • Budget survives first reading
  • Is the fat lady singing for the opera?
  • Reform Party plans return
  • The party with 'all the solutions'
  • Off the Wire
  • Finns win first round in shipping war with Estonia
  • Two Latvians busted for cocaine smuggling
  • Latvia's reputation at risk if tires stay
  • Latvian-British visa-free pact at risk?
  • Brits put the squeeze on Lithuanian 'refugees'
  • Doctors: Lileikis too ill for trial
  • Prosecutor shot dead in Panevezys
  • Baltic Sea's hidden treasures
  • Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul?
  • Latvian women eating their veggies
  • Independence distributes its fruits unevenly
  • Skele libel case postponed
  • Estonia, Ukraine iron out trade differences
  • Grand dukes poised to rise again
  • Christian Democrats push new agreement
  • Young and homeless in Vilnius
  • Priedkalns gets presidential nod
  • Government invites Social Dems to table
  • More scandal for the armed forces: Commander candidate connected to 'apartment affair'
  • Ship war drags on
  • Estonia to Sweden: Leave ferry victims alone
  • Veidemann makes mysterious party switch
  • Off the Wire
  • Doctors: Gimzauskas too sick to stand trial
  • Court convicts ex-Soviet officer
  • Leftists call for Nazi probe
  • Latvian translations slow war crime trial
  • U.S. official: Lithuania is bound for NATO
  • Minister supports higher defense spending
  • Latvia decries 'leftists' at Lattelekom rally
  • Journalists call for campaign finance reform
  • Vilnius celebrates the Epiphany
  • New Year's expectations in Lithuania
  • Latvia to switch back to summer time
  • Five men detained in murder
  • Supermarket collapse raises safety concerns
  • Estonia enacts tough tobacco law
  • Young politicians for lighter schoolbags
  • Great expectations for 2001
  • News briefs
  • Lithuanian crime wave hits Sweden
  • Miracle created from ice
  • Case ready against Russian extremists
  • Balkans syndrome checkups to start for peacekeepers
  • Baltics under nuclear threat from Russia?
  • Crime hurts Tallinn business, says poll
  • Ex-U.S. colonel may head Lithuanian army
  • Millennium bug won't pester Lithuania
  • Lithuania rejects Russian criticism
  • Poles return to Lithuania
  • Honoring those who give
  • Duma: Baltics want Russian land
  • Citizenship department to deal with asylum
  • Too much faith proves expensive
  • Fund changes face
  • Rulers want few changes to the rules
  • Soviet my eye!
  • Remembering 1991: 'Days of victory'
  • Prosecutor to examine WW II-era book
  • Pressure puts teachers off Latvian
  • Government drags feet on citizenship
  • New book focuses on Estonian for foreigners
  • Estonia struggles with church conundrum
  • Parties sign cooperation agreement
  • Off the Wire
  • Lithuania's new man in Minsk on his way
  • Nordic union criticizes ferry probe
  • Faults found in new Butinge report
  • Sweden pulls for Latvian EU membership
  • Estonia's Danish cheerleader
  • Van der Stoel: hands off private sector
  • Newspaper scandal stings Latvia's Way
  • More money for the military
  • Demonstrators give Lattelekom wake up call
  • Get well soon, or else
  • No more emotional gibberish
  • New language law claims 26 teachers' jobs
  • Keeping minority traditions alive
  • No solution in sight for tire problem
  • Backwards into the past
  • Lithuania fires back at Russian criticism
  • New minister begins work
  • Deconstructing Lithuania
  • Israeli speaker urges Holocaust study
  • New government produces EU friendly budget
  • Budget for '99 allows for no financial deficit
  • Decision on ferry looms
  • When honesty's not the best policy
  • Poll reveals more support for Center Party
  • Off the Wire
  • Anti-KGB law in limbo
  • Sister hurt by bomb meant for brother
  • Hunger strike ends in time for dinner
  • Smaller government goal of ministry merger
  • Tuberculosis on the rise in Estonia
  • … meets with Latvian leaders, officials in Riga
  • Van der Stoel focuses on Baltic states: Criticizes language requirements for deputies…
  • River suffers along with Ivangorod
  • Are Lileikis, Gimzauskas getting a fair shake?
  • Latvia retreats in Baltic pork war
  • Baltics: look West for heroin solutions
  • Oil spill culprits elude authorities
  • Lithuanian prisoner in Chechnya rescued
  • Latvians still glum about corruption
  • Conservatives expel two ex-ministers
  • Lithuania considers ties to Kaliningrad
  • Gorbunovs spurns presidential nomination
  • Prisoner denied Russian doctors
  • Politics on trial in double slander case
  • First liver transplant in Baltics a success
  • Tougher language requirements become law: Constitution amended despite OSCE, Russian opposition
  • Excise tax could boost bootleg booze
  • Off the Wire
  • Market bombing leaves one dead
  • Soldiers beaten in revenge attack
  • Sabonis to return to Zalgiris team
  • Government on solid ground
  • Riga man sets himself ablaze
  • Meri named 'European of the Year'
  • 'Dance drugs' new Baltic export
  • Shipping war causes waves in Estonia
  • Death penalty bites the dust
  • Naglis stays at his post
  • Mending fences, moving West
  • Outcome of Vienna verdict
  • Russia steps up its anti-NATO campaign
  • A peek at next year's newsmakers
  • Conservatives disagree over anti-communist law
  • Russian official accused of spying
  • Giant trees and rich tradition
  • Lithuania 1998: Start of something big?
  • Time for Coca Cola Santas
  • Latvia in 1998: From frying pan to fire
  • Estonia presses on with WTO talks
  • Estonia 1998: The road West gets rougher
  • Swedes plead Lithuania's case
  • Parliament to ratify WTO agreement
  • UNDP releases development report
  • Most of Lithuania behind Ignalina
  • Judgment day for nuclear plant
  • All quiet on the Western front
  • BALTIC MEN OF THE YEAR
  • Latvia, Lithuania weather EU setback
  • Learning a new mother tongue
  • Universal Human Rights Declaration
  • Three tons of Russian guns seized at border
  • Latvians think public services are on the take
  • Basketball takes center stage
  • Western Europe abolishes Baltic visa requirements
  • Klaipeda improves waste-water plant
  • Social Democrats offered agriculture
  • How long is this short man's reach?
  • Protesters gather outside Parliament
  • Meri warns against stagnation
  • Off the Wire
  • Estonian official: EU education necessary
  • Expansion could slow after Vienna
  • Coup leaders face harsh sentence
  • Ivanov reiterates Russia's anti-enlargement stance
  • Russia sends mixed signals to Riga
  • A slow but promising beginning in Tallinn: Russian-Estonian commission holds first meeting
  • Cold kills a dozen in Latvia's capital
  • Close calls on the high seas
  • Estonia amends citizenship law: Naturalization eased for nearly 6,000 stateless children
  • Lithuanians in Poland ask for help
  • Oil spill in Tallinn port under control
  • Baltic banks get low marks from OECD
  • Journalist seeks asylum in Lithuania
  • Scrambled brains and help campaigns
  • Farmers protest near border points
  • Mending broken soles
  • Frosty November will go down in history
  • Belarusian pensioners fight for survival
  • Explosion puts more heat on railways
  • HIV infections rise dramatically
  • Electoral alliance ban brings confusion
  • Tougher language amendment rejected: Elected officials do not need high Estonian proficiency
  • Off the Wire
  • Suspected arms dealer charged
  • Ignalina shuts downÉagain
  • Foreign policy goals shift
  • Baltic Assembly focuses on NATO
  • Death threats, secret sackings
  • Cleaning up a costly past
  • Minister resigns, government could face crisis
  • Latvia forms minority government
  • Discovering Europe's best kept secret
  • Lithuanian celebrities speak out on 2001
  • Top 10 events in Lithuania in 2000
  • Top 10 events in Latvia in 2000
  • More Russian Radio?
  • Estonia's Top 10 in the year 2000
  • Summed up
  • Higher pensions every year
  • Fourth killing in four years
  • Estonian Parliament enacts genome law
  • Combating corruption in Lithuania
  • Australian police arrest Kalejs
  • Presidential summit stresses Baltic unity
  • Adamkus' mother-in-law comes home
  • Suspects to be charged with murder
  • Lithuanian-Latvian committee founded
  • Harmony Party slammed for Moscow visit
  • Narva mayor forced into retirement
  • Russia, Lithuania try to maintain good relations
  • The modern Middle Ages
  • Estonia opposes recovery of ferry victims
  • Committees will study Soviet, Nazi crimes
  • Budget cuts threaten border project
  • Convicts back behind bars
  • Lithuanian MP sentenced to 5.5 years in jail
  • Nuclear warning
  • Nuclear reactor temporarily closed
  • A new ray of light for Riga: Anti-drug effort launched in rough neighborhood
  • Citizenship seekers come out of hiding: Demise of 'windows system' sparks increase
  • Budget trimmed by 800 million kroons
  • Citizenship amendments clear another hurdle
  • No rest for the weary: Meager unemployment benefits not likely to rise
  • Off the Wire
  • U.S. senators promote Lithuania
  • Justice Ministry revives parole system after Maesepp murder
  • NATO, EU will expandÉeventually
  • Brzezinski: Lithuania should join NATO
  • Political parties must go it alone
  • Dirt flies and divisions deepen: ...as moneymen swap salvoes
  • Dirt flies and divisions deepen: Kristopans faces cliff hanger...
  • Latvian arts magazine - the best of the year
  • Prisoners long for more jobs
  • Lithuania gains formal acceptance to WTO
  • Lithuanians turn into nation of Euro-enthusiasts
  • Parliament grants approval for painful social reforms
  • Alleged swindler jumps ship
  • Riga's heating causes heated discussions
  • Estonian footballers beat Hong Kong
  • Labor party announces its anti-EU stance
  • Estonia may replace oath for officials
  • Estonian MPs give themselves high pensions for Christmas
  • Summed up
  • Kalejs' extradition requested
  • Governments' reaction to Soviet anthem low-key
  • Shocking negligence kills two-year-old
  • Latvian government to wait for Swedes
  • Baltic Assembly reaches some consensus
  • Pensioners march on Parliament
  • Baltics greet green light from EU
  • Latvian soldiers rebuild Bosnia and beyond
  • Russian crisis clouds EU horizon
  • EU member countries cool on expansion
  • Estonia moving steadily toward EU
  • Imprisoned MP makes last minute appeal
  • Long cold winter in store for Ivangorod
  • Talking to little green men not allowed
  • MP cleared in manslaughter case
  • Remembering the past, stressing the future
  • Cabinet to be formed by consensus
  • Poverty threatens big families, young breadwinners
  • Libel suit spotlights the polarizing Mr. Skele
  • Estonian-Russian border talks nearing conclusion
  • Russian pensioners call off protest
  • Off the Wire
  • Bishop tries to heal wounds of the past
  • Lileikis trial interrupted again
  • Russian-speakers bemoan education law: Parliament calls for all-Latvian classes by 2004
  • Double murder shocks Estonia
  • Lithuania irked by EU delay
  • No room at EU table for Latvia, Lithuania: Latvia could join talks in 1999
  • Economy, security could suffer from low birth rate
  • Seeking a meaning
  • Keeping Lithuania healthy
  • Signature collectors half way there
  • Passing the buck back to the voters
  • Police bust explosives depot in Estonia
  • Helping police combat juvenile crime
  • Is the honeymoon over?
  • Off the wire
  • Potential KGB collaborators dot election lists
  • An airport worthy of an EU contender
  • Hunger strikers receive high ranking support
  • Lithuania's other religion
  • Viagra coming to Baltics, but not prematurely
  • A house of God, but who owns the deed?
  • Dog days plague Latvian economics minister
  • A seeker's home
  • Three Algerians ask for asylum at festival
  • Superhighway doesn't go to the country
  • NGOs push for tax breaks, other incentives
  • Lost between borders
  • Lithuania says EU reproaches are unfounded
  • Butinge could start operating this year
  • Ignalina closing should be international effort
  • Diplomats need to start singing Lithuania's praises
  • Leftist alliance pulls three candidates: Communist past made them ineligible for election
  • Would you buy a used Moskvitch from these guys?
  • Parliament committee head welcomes Euroskeptic movement
  • Former Interfronter attempts comeback
  • Green activism and inter-ethnic friendships
  • Off the wire
  • Estonia wins case in German court against tenants at Berlin embassy
  • Parliament continues ambush of former spies living in Lithuania
  • More than 15,000 signatures collected nationwide
  • Russian radar base to shut down on schedule
  • Finnish president touches on EU, Latvian citizenship
  • Police probe mysterious suicide
  • Population decline spells disaster for Estonia
  • Hunger strike rages on: Latvian greens continue to protest Butinge
  • Parliament adopts deficit-cutting budget
  • Lithuanian diplomat list to be revisited
  • Estonians are planning to produce environmentally friendly plastics
  • Street poll
  • TV through the Net
  • United States promotes NATO enlargement
  • Lithuanian ship's drama continues in West Africa
  • Lithuania and Poland cherish strategic partnership
  • Council of Europe marks end of its campaign in Riga
  • Swords to plowshares
  • Record number of prisoners start hunger strike in Estonia
  • Home-grown TV programs wanted
  • Summed up
  • Greens protest at U.S. Embassy
  • More cases unveiled in alleged child abuse
  • Hospitals have run out of money
  • Less local government needed
  • Cold temperature claims 10 lives
  • Government doubts LISCO privatization
  • Estonian Hercules plays with bars
  • Balkans envoy praises Latvia's ethnic mix
  • Furs: high fashion or cruelty?
  • Building bridges between Vilnius and Zurich
  • Government to increase budget
  • Austria promises Lithuania direct compensation for forced Nazi labor
  • Paksas' popularity on the rise
  • Celebrating Lithuanian Soldiers' Day
  • Police raid newspaper offices for alleged anti-Semitism
  • Rimi bombing investigation treading water
  • Private sector language regulations adopted
  • Citizenship given up to unite family
  • Orthodox cathedral leased for 99 years
  • Prime minister rejects party's present
  • Summed up
  • Top official blows whistle
  • Latvia, Estonia under HIV-epidemic threat
  • Child abuse alleged at rural school
  • Lithuania will spend 1.95 percent of GDP for defense
  • Oil exploration tender process to begin
  • Succeeding in making fish from fish soup
  • Latvian media man on U.S. top 100 list
  • Vilnius' Lutherans celebrate
  • Lithuanian official's surprise purchase
  • City reclaims half of building
  • Costs of living in Baltic capital cities low Ð Financial Times
  • Usackas promotes Lithuania's need for EU
  • Latvia agrees to pay
  • Illegal cigarette factory busted
  • Estonia's largest hospital closes doors
  • Citizens Day looming
  • Traffic tomorrow: beer allowed?
  • Summed up
  • Vilnius elects a youthful mayor
  • Nordic idea fix makes businessmen angry
  • Bids made for Estonian railway
  • Bear alarm in southern Estonia
  • NATO committee suggests inclusion of Lithuania in 2002
  • Bids made for Estonian railway
  • Gangland murders in 'Twin Peaks' draw government's attention
  • Russian extremists take St. Peter's
  • Islamic Lithuania as old as Catholic Lithuania
  • Ambassador gives up plans
  • Court hearing of Lithuanian war crimes suspect opens in Vilnius
  • Parliament passes government's program
  • Funding for mobile phone tapping approved
  • Deadly driver gets 4 years in jail
  • Latvia's population decreases
  • Baltic environmentalists to help save climate treaty in The Hague
  • KGB employee won the state
  • Officials' blood to cover donors lack
  • Summed up
  • Latvia loses more than $3 million in international proceeding
  • Russia criticizes Lestene monument, president's interview on BBC
  • Accidents hit Estonian Shipping Company
  • Latvia to have to respond to 10 human rights complaints
  • Vike-Freiberga and Kaupers vying for the "European Man/Woman of 2000"
  • Swedish official rallies for EU enlargement
  • Latvia takes over CE presidency
  • Official denounces prison system: Teenage suicides caused by sentencing delays
  • EU accession talks to end in 2002
  • Latvian Red Cross brings back good days
  • Gold marks stability
  • Teaching the elusive art of interpreting history
  • Former Lileikis deputy to be tried for genocide
  • Former KGB officer charged
  • Lithuania wants embassies back
  • Nordics support Baltic EU hopes
  • Just what the doctor ordered
  • Inspectors piece together train crash
  • Turning up the heat on energy conservation
  • Ivangorod gets a temporary reprieve
  • Victims tell court of deportation horrors
  • Off the Wire
  • Latvia’s unemployment hits six figures
  • Flower power saves petal pushers
  • European Parliament provides ray of EU hope
  • Estonia strives for EU entry in 2002
  • Latvia’s Unibanka pulls up its socks, takes a loss
  • Reopening old wounds
  • Latvian Legion revisited
  • Jurkans: Kristopans will spurn Skele
  • Crunching Latvia's political numbers
  • Landsbergis calls for probe
  • Trainload of tires trapped in Latvia
  • Court orders health check for NKVD member
  • Clearing a path to the past
  • Komsomol reunion has Estonians seeing red
  • U.S. to deport accused war criminal
  • All Saints' Day: candles in the wind
  • Riga AA threatened with eviction
  • Apartment affair costs minister his job
  • To use or not to use stabilization funds
  • Citizenship amendment discussion drags on
  • Off the Wire
  • EC to decide on Latvia, Lithuania
  • Ignalina could nuke EU invitation
  • Israeli ambassador calls for support from Baltics
  • Tallinn skyline highlights ambassador's homecoming
  • Latvia identifies suspect in oil leak
  • Kaliningrad charms Vilnius
  • Showdown over budget could sink government
  • Ulmanis inches government closer: President calls on Kristopans to form coalition
  • Lithuanian government: facts and figures
  • Law enforcement officials gunned down in Panevezys
  • Flight to be completed
  • Lithuanians pay respects to ancestors
  • Ranks of Euro-enthusiasts growing in Lithuania - poll
  • Riflemen hold annual meeting in Kaunas
  • New York orchestra hunts Latvian conductor
  • Latvian anthem boosts Budweiser sales
  • Legionnaires' commemoration draws criticism
  • U.S. diver promises to inform Estonian president
  • Sparkling children
  • Tallinn coalition survives no-confidence
  • Summed up
  • President fights back on BBC
  • Political bomb alarm threatens school
  • Constantinople vs. Moscow
  • British drug smuggler seized
  • Credit reports on big demand
  • Latvian navy ship sinks
  • Action plan fanfare for economic revival
  • World War II hero commemorated
  • Jewish genocide case transferred to court
  • Minister to explain forbidden trip abroad
  • Workers released by Chechen captors
  • Farmers' parties may bolt government
  • Poll uncovers distrust in banks, economy
  • Students take a crack at Latvia's problems
  • Leaders call for broader Holocaust study
  • Kallas condemns time change
  • European time the right time for Lithuania
  • Security service at least 20 years off NATO pace
  • Vagnorius prepared for EU membership
  • Conservatives receive mixed reviews at midterm: Government gets criticism from politicians, high marks from voters
  • Fewer Latvians abroad vote in election
  • Still no government, but squabbles continue
  • Krasts sees sunny days for Latvia, Fatherland
  • Estonian caught in Pskov suspected of spying: Estonia refutes Russian claims, calls incident a media bubble
  • Laar again at the helm of Pro Patria Union
  • Off the Wire
  • Journalist threatened over army articles
  • Army chief will resign
  • OECD: Baltic economies on right track
  • Ulmanis announces new citizenship law
  • Oil washes ashore near Ventspils
  • Radioactive mushrooms lead to controls
  • Soldiers face disciplinary action over pay dispute
  • Estonia turns attention to citizenship law: Parliament considers amendments, OSCE urges support
  • Adamkus lobbies Washington for NATO nod
  • All eyes on Finance Ministry
  • Latvian youngsters campaign for EU enlargement
  • Giant sculpture symbolizes the absurdity of communism
  • Dalai Lama to visit Latvia again
  • Soros cuts his help
  • Paksas returns
  • Junior Chamber Latvia joins world congress
  • Parliament sends back extradition treaty
  • Constantinople bishop visits Tallinn
  • State TV and radio merge
  • New coalition coming to Tallinn
  • Summed up
  • Daily faces criminal prosecution for anti-Semitism
  • NATO and EU membership focus of discussions
  • Intellectual property rights high on Baltic agenda
  • U.S. Congress approves military funding
  • Through hell and back
  • A backward glance
  • Russian crisis scares Euroskeptics
  • Less for America, more for Latvia
  • Expat Latvians respond
  • Latvian official to visit prisoners held in India
  • Squashing the millennium bug in Estonia
  • Vilnius prepares for new millennium
  • MP: Punishment should fit the crime
  • Riga blast not caused by bomb
  • More cash located for immunization
  • Losers look forward to life after politics
  • Former ambassador takes over Foreign Ministry
  • Recycling tax may backfire
  • Off the Wire
  • Armed forces chief faces new charges
  • Parliament sinks election bill again: Delay could affect organization of 1999 elections
  • Latvia adopts human rights amendments
  • Ulmanis draws up NATO work list in Brussels
  • Lithuania prepared to lend a hand in Kosovo
  • Ad calls for removal of Russians
  • Broadcasting bill could muzzle media
  • Latvia joins WTO, sets sights on EU
  • War's over, but one man is still searching
  • Match makers: today's modern business brokers
  • Courts to rule on jailed MP's political rights
  • Parliament examines higher education woes
  • How they voted
  • Voting for Latvians abroad still difficult
  • Politicians in no rush to form government
  • Political maneuvering holding up election bill
  • Estonians threaten to bolt Bosnia mission
  • Europeans, Americans team up to save Baltic Sea
  • Siimann returns to work, sinks resignation rumors
  • Off the Wire
  • Latvia leads world in drug-resistant TB cases
  • Kroons for kids on the street
  • Viagra on sale in Latvia
  • Bomb scares follow explosion in Old Town
  • Don't write off the left just yet
  • Vodka for Verdi: sin taxes go to culture, sports
  • Farmers lay down the gauntlet: Protesters demand voice in Estonia's EU negotiations
  • Skele slams Bank of Latvia
  • Russia steps up criticism of Latvia: Estonia also suffers barbs from Moscow
  • Voters crow, pols pecked in chicken-town Kekava
  • The bigger the lie, the better the chances
  • New border treaty could be ready soon
  • Lithuania to head CBSS
  • Adamkus recognizes American journalists
  • Lithuania: suicide king of Europe?
  • Duma urges Lithuania to protect WW II veterans
  • Lithuania, Poland to swap EU stories
  • KGB archives tell story of 20th century Lithuania
  • Bomb explodes outside foreign investment firm
  • Pharmacists reinforce synthetic drugs defenses
  • Explosion rocks Old Town, confounds police
  • Three strikes, you're out? Minister won't play ball on stricter laws
  • Parting words: Estonia must focus on EU, NATO
  • Off the Wire
  • Security guard killed in robbery
  • Americans welcomed to Lithuanian oil
  • UNDP goes to bat for Estonians
  • Zhirinovsky vows to cork Baltic ports
  • Schroeder could slow down EU expansion
  • Ilves throws in towel, cites political attacks
  • Latvian voters say 'yes' to amendments
  • Skele wins election, may lose government
  • Estonia, Germany cooperate
  • The rightful owner
  • Farmers plan peaceful protest
  • Pre-election shocks in Latvenergo affair
  • Textbooks spark reading, writing, recriminations
  • No shortage of scandals
  • A dirty cloud over Latvia's future
  • Gathering calls for 'de-Sovietization' of Lithuania
  • Preparing for 'the heating season'
  • Latvian Legion veterans reburied
  • Latvia "in most danger since independence"
  • New language law put on hold
  • Estonian man returns home from Chechnya
  • Estonia will regulate abortion more closely
  • Government offers aid package for businesses
  • Off the Wire
  • Mourners demand respect: Estonia Ferry survivors, relatives gather on fourth anniversary
  • …and Ignalina too
  • Former bank head in court
  • Latvia, Lithuania make progress on Butinge…
  • Vagnorius keeps his word
  • Locals perceive high corruption in Latvia
  • Swedish generals get criticism over NATO statements
  • Medical schools fight over merger
  • LRT protests frozen bank accounts
  • Wallet stolen? Don't call the police
  • 'Smoking seriously damages health'
  • Williams in trouble again
  • Sabonis eighth in top 10
  • 2001 budget passes first reading: New businesses need more support, say Social Democrats
  • Hospital turns patients away
  • EU commissioner: Estonian air getting cleaner
  • Beauty cheers up fair business
  • Stockmann bombers go on trial in December
  • Summed up
  • Arrest warrant for Kalejs
  • Government to go online?
  • World Bank anti-corruption strategy
  • The National Library will admit teens again
  • Paulauskas new parliamentary chairman
  • Dancer with planes gets world cup
  • Tele2 to invest $50 million in its Latvian subsidiary
  • 10,000th naturalized Latvian a shining pupil
  • University celebrates 80 years of free education
  • Adamkus decorates saviors of Jews
  • Madagascar's president unexpectedly drops in
  • Reaction to Clinton scandal in Lithuania
  • Number of women with HIV rises, more at risk
  • Petition against Butinge presented to Lithuania
  • Nevsky Cathedral belongs to the state
  • Estonia to clarify freedom of information laws
  • Off the Wire
  • Minister stays on after presidential veto
  • MPs get close-up of Russian crisis
  • Group of Estonians detained in America
  • Naval exercise aimed at pushing Balts toward NATO
  • NowÉa message from your leaders
  • Siimann re-elected chairman of Coalition Party
  • Minister asked to resign after Aluksne tragedy
  • Lithuanian MPs call on Europe
  • Fuel companies should invest more
  • Court to try alleged war criminal in absentia
  • Baltic, Russian working group to combat organized crime
  • Norwegian premier: Lithuania can choose its own security system
  • Estonia defeated 2-0 by Ireland
  • Palace of Grand Dukes may rise again
  • Election winners make final deals
  • Latvian court finds ex-army chief not guilty
  • Social Democrats even with Latvia's Way in poll
  • Tallinn's ticket controllers accused of fraud
  • CAP: a lesson for Estonia
  • Better or Worse?: a survey on Baltic living conditions
  • Estonian nurses' strike a success
  • Summed up
  • 100,000 kroons per minister
  • Latvia must face the Holocaust
  • Hospital threatens to close its doors
  • Opposition leader denounces 'election farce': Isolating Belarus no solution says Lithuanian premier's adviser
  • Estonian teens barred from the National Library
  • Two child abusers get sentences, others line up
  • Latvian cyclist sprints to world title
  • Athletes return home
  • Work is over. Greet the heroes.
  • Latvia, Lithuania squads shutout 4-0
  • Vilnius forum calls for return of Jewish legacy
  • Lithuanian elections: winners & losers
  • Silence is not golden
  • Environmental advisers passed European training
  • Tallinn toughens taxi requirements
  • Adopted child may change law
  • Summed up
  • Sweden puts organizer of dive to ferry Estonia on wanted list
  • No storm clouds over Baltic-Nordic region
  • Latvian fishermen's threats cause Lithuanians concern
  • MPs seek Soviet occupation damages: Softly softly should be the Latvian approach, says victims' representative
  • Nobel laureates grace the stage
  • Constructing with hazardous materials
  • Lithuanians finished with Conservatives
  • Estonian energy company gets new Finnish connection
  • Norwegians, Lithuanians team up to grab shipyard
  • Encephalitis deaths rise, foreign help needed
  • A voice for the muzzled majority
  • Estonians join military exercise in Macedonia
  • UNDP, Nordics lend a hand for integration
  • Farmers want year classified as disaster
  • Hungry eyes
  • Red Cross offers taste of Latvia
  • Estonian company threatens to turn off the taps
  • Occupation probe will take years, official says
  • Lithuania helps forgotten Kaliningrad
  • Many different breeds of underdog
  • Faithful demand return of church
  • PM admits to intra-party power struggles
  • Off the Wire
  • Estonia hands in EU position papers
  • Russians to get partial pensions: Delays could end up costing Latvia and other Baltics
  • Man questioned in bank robbery released
  • Estonia mourns long-serving diplomat
  • Not the best, not the worst
  • Ailing Lileikis keeps out of court again
  • Baltics brace for Russian refugees
  • Baltic reaction to Primakov divided
  • Lost men in a lost society
  • Getting kids into the classroom
  • School's in, and so is education reform
  • The shadier side of the West hits Latvia
  • Children need help, but Estonia's no Thailand
  • Environmentalists offer prayer for Baltic Sea
  • Autumn means mushrooms in Lithuania
  • Lithuanian air pollution monitored more closely
  • Don't rule out the also-rans
  • Border areas to get EU support
  • Registration deadline for elections draws near
  • Group sifts through mysterious Estonia disaster
  • Off the Wire
  • Illegal immigrants start hunger strike
  • AIDS treatment examined after death
  • Royals enjoy familiarity with Lithuania
  • NATO membership could hinge on amendments
  • Estonia courts NATO but gets no promises
  • Parnu man charged with crimes against humanity
  • Landsbergis sends wake-up call to West
  • Top guard questioned in Unibanka heist: Bank robbed of 1.65 million lats, five detained
  • Birth rate becomes weapon
  • Russian military pensioners ailing in Estonia
  • Adamkus takes on EU, Butinge, Lithuania's future
  • Referendum set for election day
  • Paying the piper
  • Deutschmarks for Nazi suffering
  • The price of power
  • Foreigners could face more checks in Estonia
  • Speculations swirl around ministers' future
  • Off the wire
  • Precipitation in Estonia hits record high
  • Ministry may let prisoners walk
  • Baltics roll out the red carpet
  • Lithuania joins EU sanctions against Yugoslavia
  • Reports of president's demise greatly exaggerated
  • Hunger strike ends on a high note
  • Russians throw Skrunda switch
  • Estonians try to wait out Russian storm
  • Smart money takes off to farm, mattresses
  • God will be a judge for Lileikis
  • Tribunal on communism announces its verdict
  • Cathedral Square reopens
  • Off the wire
  • Lithuanians celebrate Olympic victories
  • Embassy inquires into postal problems
  • Planspiel Boerse comes to Latvian schools
  • World Bank funds Liepaja waste management
  • Jews savior visits Washington
  • NATO integration on the move
  • Radical administrative reform for Estonia?
  • Nurses to go on strike
  • Damage control needed to boost euro's image
  • Election campaign reaches its peak
  • Kalejs charged, arrest delayed
  • Latvia's fierce youth
  • Youth happy with life
  • Rebels release Lithuanian hostage
  • Officials object reparations' route
  • Economic interests blamed for RIMI store bombing
  • Illegal workers get small fines
  • Law changes skyrocket crime stats
  • Oil spill cleanup continues
  • Indirect discrimination violates human rights
  • Off the wire
  • Latvian prosecutor's office gets scandal as a birthday present
  • Lithuanian pilot fined for ads
  • HIV outbreak among drug users
  • Estonian parliament rejects Russian integration bill
  • Fighting against drugs
  • The Dream is over?
  • Living in limbo
  • Russian-speaking teachers on probation
  • Hearing the voices that never spoke
  • A hero's medals could put him behind bars
  • Vetra crosses the Atlantic
  • Some Lithuanians are immune to AIDS
  • Vilnius will change by 2005
  • Like a puppet on a string
  • Smokes to be banned from public places
  • Draft broadcasting law could stand close to censorship
  • Off the Wire
  • Lithuania to cooperate with Kaliningrad
  • Will Archbishop run for political office?
  • Bus driver shot, passengers robbed
  • Russians to scuttle Skrunda
  • Defense begins its case in Podins trial
  • Latvia preparing for accident at Butinge
  • Citizenship shapes up as election issue
  • Farmers recieve state support
  • Latvia awaits terms of Russian bond conversion
  • Estonian yacht sails around the world
  • Goethe Institute inaugurated in Vilnius
  • Lithuanian citizen kidnapped
  • Parliament law on wartime events provokes scandal
  • Latvia aiming for early EU accession
  • Voru residents live in fear of explosion
  • Estonian fishing vessel arrested
  • Tallinn's Support Center offers temporary home
  • Latvian Parliament's failure to confirm Krastins marks split in ruling coalitionBy TBT staff
  • Balts oppose amendment by U.S. senator
  • Off the wire
  • U.S. anti-aircraft weapons wanted
  • Transparency International releases its corruption index
  • Tallinn holds car-free day on September 22
  • War crimes investigations: no decision
  • Estonian farmers protest fuel costs
  • Paulauskas takes Brussels
  • Estonian language policy too strict
  • New British ambassador supports Lithuania
  • More children are born out of wedlock
  • Government to give greater authority to NGOs
  • Tiina's Widows start a new life
  • Smugglers pump alcohol into Lithuania
  • Navaitis promises two new best-sellers
  • Signature collectors might hit the target
  • Anti-referendum campaign started
  • Political mud slinging as prosecutor general resigns
  • Death toll doubles on Tallinn roads
  • Excise tax could mean more illegal booze
  • Off the Wire
  • Crime on the rise in Tallinn
  • Unibanka robbed of 20,000 lats
  • Baltics establish common school zone
  • Stockholm ferry receives bomb threat
  • International Vilnius festival spotlights ethnic communities
  • Lithuanian president admits Butinge may be dangerous
  • Accused Nazi collaborator returns for trial
  • Neighbors unify pollution standards
  • House of Memory
  • High hopes for Latvia in Sydney
  • Parliamentary election derby starts in Lithuania
  • Lithuanian National-Socialist Party's headquarters raided
  • Public transport is losing out
  • Second forum on Kalejs and Ozols this week
  • Parliament refuses to expel Adamsons
  • Estonians want non-Estonians to leave
  • Meri appoints legal chancellor
  • Off the wire
  • Russia's Baltic Fleet ready to help Baltics
  • Baltic leaders address U.N. Millennium Summit
  • Gene technology top specialists come to Estonia
  • Apartment scandal threatening Tallinn power bloc
  • UNPO conference indignant over Chinese occupation of Tibet
  • Communism tribunal cuts Li Peng's visit short
  • Leftists call for "non-violent" resistance
  • Sabas holds press conference for children
  • Lower wages for peacekeepers
  • Russia to cooperate with Baltics in fighting crime
  • Director charged with large-scale forest fraud
  • Cemetery is restored in Vingio Park
  • Oncology Center receives $1 million
  • Publications: Latvia for foreigners
  • Adamsons will keep fighting for the truth TBT reporter
  • Estonians want to work in Finland
  • Full visa regime affects thousands
  • Disabled allowance not in budget, says Laar
  • Ferry wreck may be investigated again
  • Lavent suffers courtroom heart failure
  • Off the wire
  • Switzerland contributes to nuclear plant's closure
  • Parliament adopts a law on lie detector
  • Mass exodus fails to rattle party
  • Russian diplomats expelled on spying charges
  • Pre-election monologues banned
  • Seven years in jail
  • Shooting in the Foreign Ministry
  • Move over Tiger Woods
  • Summed up
  • Estonia to help investigate blasts
  • President's rating falls due to secrecy
  • 75 percent of youths have tried drugs
  • OSCE will not observe Lithuanian elections
  • NHL bad guy promotes ice hockey
  • Up to 100,000 lats for medals
  • FBI helping with bombing investigation
  • FBI helping with bombing investigation
  • Ventspils diesel spill cleanup effective
  • World-renowned Estonian conductor to quit
  • Estonia ferry dive "already paid off," says organizer
  • Environmentalists trying to stop Undva port
  • Max van der Stoel leaves Estonia on a high note
  • The end of the New Party?
  • Turbine at Lithuania's nuclear power plant back in operation
  • Estonia's economics minister survives confidence vote
  • Wanting to break free
  • Baltics' refugee saga applauded
  • Architects plan to rebuild Vilnius' Jewish quarter
  • Parliament narrowly votes Kert out
  • Lithuania stays calm as storm brews to the east
  • Estonia, Latvia adopt ‘wait and see' stance on Russia
  • Talking EU issues, person-to-politician
  • Paksas the pilot
  • Lithuanian sympathies go out to Chechen cause
  • Gorbunovs agrees to run for president
  • TV executives forge agreement
  • Officials beat path to northeast
  • Off the Wire
  • Ulmanis: NATO should accept Balts as block
  • Ignalina shuts down temporarily
  • Two cops die in shoot-out
  • Drinking problems rise again
  • Gay HIV infections rise, government blamed
  • Crime soars in Tallinn
  • Government likely to survive confidence vote
  • Latvia's Way backs Kristopans, Naglis
  • Paksas accepts prime minister post
  • New European Union presidency good for Baltics
  • Adamkus offers tough love to basketball fans
  • Finding communism's criminals
  • Greek president sidles up to Lithuania
  • Paksas: a prime minister on the move
  • Rally drivers too traumatized to race again
  • Memories live on Gogol Street and in the palace
  • A new verse in the Song Festival
  • White Cross holder revealed to be KGB agent
  • Off the Wire
  • German ambassador's residence gets dogged
  • Russian troops stage mock invasion of Baltic states
  • Did the honeymoon ever begin?
  • Laar criticized for lackluster first 100 days
  • Pressure mounts on language law
  • Language law amended
  • Kristopans quits, political spectrum in flux
  • Plastic playpens and painted lives
  • Internet slowly seeps into Lithuania
  • Latvia still improving Internet access
  • Information superhighway starts in Estonia
  • Alcoholism? Not a problem here
  • Treating drug addicts: an uphill battle
  • Van den Broek keeps mum about EU
  • Celebrating the world's 'most democratic language'
  • First lady will have her feet up
  • Latvian leftists insist on joint election list
  • Can the crusader learn the art of compromise?
  • Bomb explodes in Tallinn
  • Estonian EU accession talks well under way
  • Ivangorod likely to stay in Russia
  • Off the Wire
  • A good summer for the beach?
  • Minister’s advisor commits suicide
  • Baltic Challenge good preparation for NATO
  • Western Latvians could be key to referendum
  • Blackened flag angers Lithuania
  • Oil project taxes Latvian-Lithuanian relations: Environmental activists protest at Lithuanian Embassy in Riga
  • Williams sweetens offer for stake in Lithuanian oil for stake in Lithuanian oil
  • A walk through time
  • Dealing with pregnancy before it happens
  • Getting glue-sniffers unstuck
  • Summer serial rapist strikes once again
  • Fewer Latvians tying the knot
  • Parliament, Adamkus compromise on KGB law
  • American dolphins on guard in the Baltic
  • Baltic Challenge exercises open
  • Better the devil you know?
  • Getting Latvians to understand their rights
  • Parliament gets tough on piraters
  • Estonian praises Lithuanian military
  • Estonia to send new police contingent to Bosnia
  • Ivangorod residents threaten to block railway
  • Estonian bank head won’t be charged
  • Savisaar: should’ve run for president
  • Estonian-American ready to come home in style
  • Off the Wire
  • Lebanon costly mission for Baltbat
  • Building on buried bones
  • Germany pushes NATO, EU enlargement
  • Baltic-American pact will fund ‘habits of the heart’
  • No amendments, no EU?
  • Latvenergo Commission guns for Skele, Krasts
  • Afghan security employees not welcome
  • Finnish company acquires Latvian software company
  • Privatization for Internet junkies
  • Hansapank-Hoiupank merger a reality
  • Deposit guarantee fund launched
  • Baltic Sea ministers focus on small businesses
  • Lithuanian brokers halt trading to protest tax law
  • International and individual truth
  • The American Ambassador’s last hurrah
  • Talbott: Lithuania deserves better 21st century
  • Lithuania: land of ostriches?
  • No sanctions against Belarus
  • Security is tight for visit
  • Polish president praises treatment of minorities
  • Bus plunges from bridge
  • Welcome to Ivangorod, Estonia?
  • Estonian freedom-fighters gather for reunion
  • Off the Wire
  • Election Commission gets less than expected
  • Appealing to Latvians’ civic duty
  • Baltic similarities and differences
  • Out of the closet in the middle of the road
  • Talbott reaffirms Baltic moves to the West
  • Maapank bankruptcy aftermath: protests and panic
  • NATO chief to visit Baltics
  • Lost souls from a lost empire
  • Building collapses, injures six
  • Australian accused of war crimes
  • Ignalina still priority for EU
  • Police, paramilitary unit to join forces
  • Retirement at age 62 in Latvia
  • A Cold War mystery
  • Victims, families remember 1949
  • Off the Wire
  • Tough talk from Russian Duma
  • USAID closes Riga office
  • Local governments in the red
  • Finland: too early to set dates for enlargement
  • Lukashenko denounced by Lithuania, EU
  • Emotions run high at deportation trial
  • Greens crash Butinge opening
  • Pipe dream finally realized in Butinge
  • Primakov comes to praise Lithuania
  • Baltics stable, democratic, attractive for investment – Adamkus
  • Minister says too early to commit Estonia to gender equality
  • Estonian Seamen's Union, Hansatee dispute working hours
  • Soviet security troops convicted
  • Pro-Nazi movement registered as public organization in Lithuania
  • Illegal goods get a warm reception
  • Gift of U.S. rifles to Estonian army due this week
  • New kid on the block not popular, but conciliatory
  • New head of Lithuanian conference of bishops elected
  • Absconding activist of pro-Soviet coup lives in Moscow
  • Russians smuggle icons, amber via Klaipeda
  • EBRD looks at loan to Lithuania's bank
  • Supporters of Chechen independence burn Russian PM's picture in Vilnius
  • Adamkus has seen better days
  • Latvian teachers prepared to strike
  • United we stand, divided, you’re fired
  • Slow and steady won’t win this race
  • Merger of operations of Neste, Statoil in Baltics dragging
  • Mayoral vote threatens Tallinn City Council coalition
  • Estonian minister says lid on pollution tax possible
  • Estonia's Pakterminal handles over 615,000 tons of oil
  • Summed up
  • Pension-law changes on ballot Saturday
  • Latvia to mark National Day as festivities for all
  • Birkavs: Judges the keys to justice
  • Estonian police bring charges against second suspect in Daiwa affair
  • Putting the 'service' in civil service
  • Kubilius forms a new government
  • Environmentalists accuse power company of ministry tampering
  • Maintaining a clean European environment
  • More money for moms, more babies for Latvia
  • Ulmanis stands firmly for integration
  • Famous priest, art collection vanish
  • Lithuanians: the biggest NATO enthusiasts
  • Festival, olympics brighten up Vilnius
  • Retirement age for women jumps again
  • Making it tougher for political parties
  • Economics minister considers resignation
  • Saturated mobile market gets a costly boost
  • Euroskeptics question wisdom of EU membership
  • Hosptial calls for private ownership
  • Off the Wire
  • Teachers need more time to learn Latvian
  • Latvia condemns Russian pressure
  • Departing ambassador recalls ‘unique possibility’
  • Austria endorses Estonia for quick EU membership
  • Ready, set, sign: Referendum campaign starts July 20
  • They came, they sang, they conquered
  • Latvia's New Party leader quits
  • Summed up
  • Nordic, Baltic prime ministers to meet in Parnu
  • Unpaid factory worker stops eating
  • Latvian treaty with Holy See worries Lutherans
  • Storm kills one man and devastates part of village
  • Injuries weaken Lithuania's basketball team
  • Lavent's jailing unjust, claims Israeli MP
  • Russia invited to war crimes conference
  • Favorite expat hangout sold
  • Estonia's Voru County governor to resign
  • Escaped Stockmann bomber caught
  • State toughens up driver's license requirements
  • Athletes make final preparations for Sydney
  • Lithuanian émigrés meet to promote language and culture
  • Latvia's MPs vote salary raise
  • Artists take over Liepaja's navy port
  • Lithuania expects triumph in Sydney Olympic games
  • Party pushes no-confidence vote on economics minister
  • Bomb kills one, injures 34
  • Is Lithuania souring on America?
  • Latvian culture minister ready to resign over National Opera’s debts
  • EU gets high, but doesn’t sweat it
  • Lithuania calls upon U.S. Department of Justice in war-crime trial
  • President orders look at minister's wealth
  • Cutting red tape may loosen purse strings
  • Military complains over lower defense spending
  • The front line for truthful reporting
  • Latvia is loudly silent on Chechnya
  • Project charts Estonia’s gene pool
  • Baltics in Brief
  • HIV plagues IV drug users
  • Swedish program promotes Baltics
  • Paksas lands in Adamkus' office
  • Teachers to walk again as Golde quits
  • Estonia’s WTO dealers pack up for Seattle
  • Chechens backed in Vilnius
  • Balts to NATO: expand quickly
  • NATO still at center of Lithuanian radar
  • Welcome to the spotlight, Mrs. President
  • New president kept Latvia close in Canada Latvia close in Canada
  • Sugar beet farmers sour on government
  • Lithuanian convict Butkevicius ready to rule
  • Lithuania tries for Euro championship
  • Council of Europe: Latvia still has integrating to do
  • Police link Latvian crime in Lithuania
  • Judge sentences Silava to five years
  • Budget passed after months of deadlock
  • Off the Wire
  • Court sentences commander to prison
  • Race car collision kills seven
  • Finland to push for EU enlargement
  • Ignalina still looms on road to EU
  • Baltic leaders praise regional stability
  • ‘List of shame’ soils Estonian armed forces
  • Thousands expected for Estonia’s Song Festival
  • Political outsider elected Latvian president
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Estonia's car registry online
  • Every fifth Latvian OK with homosexuality
  • Same-sex registry bill nixed
  • Doctors’ union sees health care system in critical state
  • Estonian drug users avoid HIV
  • Gang smuggles hash into Finland
  • Import and export: Butinge goes both ways
  • Adamkus asks government minister to resign
  • Whopping parking penalty is just fine?
  • Civil servants abuse power buying luxury cars
  • Strike Two!!!
  • Foreign minister stresses joining NATO
  • Right ends, wrong means, say Russians
  • Latvia’s language law nears passage
  • Gulbene murder trial begins
  • Adamkus’ Moscow visit called off
  • President launches anti-corruption campaign
  • Russian Baltic Fleet's officer met Swedish agents in Vilnius
  • Lithuanians not eager for EU, European Committee says
  • Diena puts its Russian edition to bed for good
  • Estonia gets low Y2K rating
  • KGB agents must register
  • French Embassy too condemns article about Jews in Latvian magazine
  • Police short of funds to control prostitution
  • Tina Turner fans congest Latvian-Estonian border
  • Russia's participation in war cases in Latvia to be negotiated
  • Minister supports rescue workers' pay rise
  • Interior minister calls on government to support police rather than army
  • Hansapank accuses one of its top officials of fraud
  • Subjects say scandal was hell
  • Lithuanian law enforcement cracks drug-smuggling ring
  • U.S. officer awarded medal for work in Lithuania
  • Police recommend alarm systems in flats
  • Tire wagons to leave Latvia soon
  • Digital government for the digital age?
  • Estonia's Waffen-SS soldiers hold secret reunion
  • Medicine reduces damage in children's bone disease
  • Connecting to the West: Estonia seeks to sever its ties with Russian power networks
  • Twenty Estonian schools to shut down
  • Language regulations still pending
  • More human rights, more Russian and more understanding
  • Summed up
  • Back to ‘show of hands'
  • Estonia plans to extend mission in Kosovo
  • IT companies now seek brilliance and a diploma
  • Danes have Latvia in court over phone breakup
  • Landscape before the election battle looks colorful
  • Campaign fever in Lithuania
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Estonia to launch visa talks with Russia
  • Artists in frenzy over tabloid articles
  • EBRD won’t give up investing in Estonia yet
  • Lithuania remains a pro-Western country
  • Leading DHL concludes agreement with customs department
  • Public media looks at fees to solve finances
  • New York hosts Baltic Art Exhibition
  • Ministry head says LPA head Naglis out in March
  • Young minister looks out for young teachers
  • Nazi hunter doubts political will of Latvia
  • Survey rates happy spots around globe
  • Talbott backs NATO membership
  • Modern dentistry waiting for Lithuanians to open wide
  • Latvian court to consider extradition of Estonian drug suspect to France
  • No special compensation for children of dead heroes of Latvia’s ‘barricades’
  • Survey scores Baltics for their forest abuse
  • Trolleybus and bus drivers want more money
  • Latvia convicts war criminal on murder of nine
  • Off the Wire
  • A tender Vitols tapped for education minister
  • No oil leak at Butinge, Lithuania panel says
  • Soviet hero goes on trial
  • Fair on Pilies Street
  • Vilnius to have the world's biggest Christmas tree
  • Riga reclaims its medieval past
  • A new home for the Occupation Museum
  • All clear: OK for Y2K
  • U.N. report shows Estonia’s economic reforms ahead, social reforms lagging
  • Will Portugal hold a different EU attitude?
  • Guess who came to Helsinki? A small media army invades EU summit
  • Lukashenko and Yeltsin confound the fans
  • EU membership not welcomed by all
  • Latvia passes language law
  • Let the talks begin: Latvia, Lithuania to open EU negotiations
  • Russians in Estonia can vote in Russia’s elections
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Newspaper pushes Three Star decoration to rescuer of Jews
  • Nordic Investment Bank establishes loans for businesswomen
  • Greens and army argue over forests
  • MP dies in Parliament
  • Journalists observe children’s rights
  • Govt okays bill to ease bureaucracy for aliens in Estonia
  • Finns blame Estonia for drug trafficking
  • Supreme Court clears the rehabilitated
  • Balts under scrutiny at Holocaust forum
  • Kristopans passes off the ball for another game
  • Microsoft pleased with legalization action
  • Carlo Carra, neorealism and high fashion
  • Latvia embarks on a nation-building exercise
  • Microlink-Fortech merger
  • Probe of prosecutor general sets precedent
  • Lithuanians, Pole finish girding the globe
  • Investigators to review evidence against several suspected Latvian war criminals
  • Lithuania to borrow $ 21.2 million from World Bank
  • Vilniaus Bankas’ rating upgraded
  • Parliament drops holiday from calendar
  • Yeltsin renounces Latvia's highest decoration
  • It’s hurry up and wait on Kalejs case
  • Lithuanian saviors honored in book
  • Lithuanians brace to protect language from EU
  • Police nab man for lobbing firecrackers at embassy
  • Haze hangs over murder of city worker
  • Privatization official beaten to death
  • Latvians grab Goodwill gold
  • Sweetness and sadness soars across Old Riga
  • Valga depot facing bankruptcy over railway dispute
  • Baltics set to start building common energy grid
  • Prime ministers talk pork and energy
  • Estonia's biggest drug bust ever
  • Independence Day celebrations
  • Accusations fly, but government appears safe
  • Baltics' resolve not enough to save Chechnya
  • Baltics in brief
  • Ventspils companies seek answers in contributions to Adamsons party
  • Committee has few rules
  • Latvia to be ready for EU by 2003
  • Vagnorius takes a break
  • Power issues lead to hunger strike
  • Estonia ready for long-term guerilla war: Meri
  • Israel pays tribute to Lithuanians
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Latvian “Father” of Spiderman dies
  • Prodi encourages Latvia to develop
  • Demonstrators say EU will take Latvia’s sovereignty
  • Estonian media associations call Russia to account on Babitski
  • People's Party calls for reduction of excise tax on cars in Latvia
  • Criminal case opened against National Bolsheviks in Latvia
  • Pet food firm bounces radioactive cargo
  • Cable TV offers data communication services
  • Promoting Baltic architecture as an art
  • Alleged assassin returning to Latvia
  • Nationalists famous, but gain little sympathy
  • Suncor woos Estonia on 2.5 billion kroon deal
  • Panel biased, says patients' rights group
  • UNDP to Latvia: Go global
  • Not many hearts fluttering in Lithuania this Feb. 16th
  • Government gives in to trade union pressure
  • Seven persons charged in "Unibanka" fraud case
  • Film festival rescued by lottery and football funds
  • Estonians don't approve EU sanctions on Austria
  • People’s Party wants to name KGB names
  • Prodi brings good news to Lithuania
  • An EU brain drain or brain gain?
  • Barring land sales to foreigners meets growing resistance
  • U.S. energy secretary visits Baltics
  • Number of HIV carriers exceeds 500 in Latvia
  • New Lithuanian pension regs may hinder small businesses
  • Israel to attend conference on Kalejs
  • Group of 7 could provide evidence
  • Criminal case opened against National Bolsheviks in Latvia
  • Political reforms lead to stronger economies, OECD says
  • Lithuanian political parties waltz with NATO
  • Race celebrates victory of the common man
  • Defense minister admits existence of secret unit
  • Estonia gets down to amending language law
  • Tartu celebrates 80th anniversary of peace treaty
  • Lithuanian body-builder kills himself
  • Five Latvian pilots get life sentences
  • Far-right groups denounce Latvian Jews
  • Baltics in Brief
  • World Health Organization polls teens on drinking, sex and TV
  • Court reduces punishment for convicted drug smugglers
  • Flu epidemic grips Lithuania
  • Old tires from Norway may leave soon
  • Riga's heating renovations meet cautious welcome
  • New heating system has different price tags
  • Estonian Eurosceptics get 200,000 kroons
  • On the right to assemble
  • Majority of local governments to take Lithuanian government to court
  • Lithuanian drink-and-drive diplomat recalled from Riga
  • Lithuania, United States boost defense
  • KGB collaborators come out of the closet
  • Leader of U.S. Balts: Lieberman is supporter of Baltics
  • No actual manifestations of anti-Semitism in Latvia
  • Pension system takes a Western shape
  • To see the others, to show oneself
  • Ireland holds two Estonians drugs bust
  • Estonian citizens favor NATO over EU - survey
  • EU will up Estonia's foreign labor force
  • Estonia to propose plan to combat rising metal theft
  • OSCE has several proposals for Latvian language law implementation regulations
  • Pilot recounts jail experiences in India
  • Summed up
  • Employee may cost 66 million kroons
  • Active phase of Baltic Fleet's march starts in Kaliningrad
  • Foreign minister disagrees on Russian ties
  • Prosecutor wants MP Adamsons
  • Estonia studies drunk driving - of cops
  • Kapitals article 'solicits hatred'
  • Prison improves slowly, judiciary system lags
  • Latvians honored as ‘Righteous Among Nations’
  • Students face barracks before books
  • Baltics in brief
  • State-owned gas shares on sale March 27
  • History through the looking glass
  • Legionnaires make world headlines again
  • Drinking water a concern over Vilnius train wreck
  • Kaunas workers continue hunger strike after exam
  • For Baltics, it’s military finance time again
  • Halfway to Latvia’s finest
  • Power to build ‘Castle of Light’
  • New sport booming in Latvia
  • An e-Estonia has a new ID
  • Moscow: Estonia helped a spy
  • A greater Tallinn, but for whom?
  • Crash foils Smigun's World Cup hopes
  • Estonia PM, defense minister to present NATO accession plan
  • Success on college entrance exams means marching
  • Paulauskas calls for cut in defense spending
  • Adamsons retracts appeal of court’s KGB ruling
  • Anti-Corruption Law sheds light on public employee finances
  • Municipal elections put new parties on the map
  • Baltics in brief
  • KGB files to stay shut
  • Education gap blamed for high teen pregnancies
  • Lithuania celebrates its famous figure skating pair
  • Who will get Cicero, who Murphy?
  • Prosecutor’s office still under scrutiny
  • Non-citizens demonstrate for their rights
  • Estonian skier wins Vasaloppet marathon
  • Integration faces opposition from Russian parties
  • Integration faces opposition from Russian parties
  • Vandalism damages diplomacy
  • Voitka brothers captured in Estonian forest
  • Russia tells EU it is worried about Latvia
  • Vilnius gets its bomb shelter back
  • Headmasters show poor command of Estonian
  • Award to former KGB officer heats emotions
  • Court affirms Adamsons' KGB link
  • Baltics ban Danish beef after outbreak
  • Cigarette maker stubs out factory plans
  • Absentee ballot information available
  • 'Junker' excise tax to be reduced
  • Not much room for newcomers in Kaunas newspaper market
  • Lithuania’s workers rally while the iron is hot
  • Healthy people are bathing in the Baltic sea now
  • US report slams Latvian justice system
  • Pedophilia documents surrendered to intelligence
  • Queen of Castanets leaves it all to Latvia
  • EU pushes Estonia to tax newspapers
  • Deadlock over Baltic-German bill postponed
  • Tallinn seeks ways to employ disabled
  • Baltics in brief
  • Denmark in Lithuania's corner
  • Savenko war crimes trial opens in Liepaja
  • Never too young for gold
  • Morphine available in Estonia but not used by cancer patients
  • Authorities shoot to sink software pirates
  • More rumors, more delays
  • Price, schedule set for shipping company
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  • Sigulda: international luge town in 2003
  • Latvians, Estonian on trial
  • Latvians, Estonian on trial
  • Baltic meeting of minds on oil issues
  • Lithuanians want ‘old’ time back
  • Power exports at top of agenda
  • Press: new law threatens its freedom
  • PM talks about EU in Paris
  • Lithuanian schools troubled in Poland, Belarus
  • Yeltsin condemns anti-Latvia bill
  • Minister urges reforms in citizenship administration
  • Rigas Komercbanka’s rehab on track
  • Skeptical Latvians
  • Ex-KGB men stay on in security police
  • Meri: relations with Russia will improve
  • Coalition plans for next year’s budget battle
  • Record drug bust made in Tallinn
  • Tallinn city takes Finance Ministry to court
  • Adamkus seeks Caspian oil deals
  • Vilnius court ends war crimes trial
  • $1 million stolen in Tallinn
  • Van den Broek promises fair shake for Latvia
  • Teacher shortage plagues schools
  • Up to 20 schools declared ‘dangerous’
  • The show will go on…for now
  • Race is on for local council seats
  • Beginning of the end for Ignalina
  • Fischer backs Baltic states in EU drive
  • Off the Wire
  • Estonia falls off summer time
  • Lithuanian sex lines will be disconnected
  • Latvian teens struggle against addiction
  • Minister could be on thin ice
  • Looking back at Liberty Day
  • What’s new in Palanga?
  • Opposition starts signature campaign
  • Vike-Freiberga questions pension amendments
  • Greens gather to call for cleaner sea
  • Taking the tricolor around the world
  • Ministries asked to cut expenses
  • Latvians do not trust commercial banks
  • Water conflict pours oil on political fire
  • Meat scare bad news for McDonald’s
  • Estonians end Latvian’s adventure
  • Estonia to teach EU integration
  • Estonia prepares formore EU candidates
  • Meri: West cannot turn its back on Russia
  • Latvian Railway rumors refuted
  • Will opera sink or sing?
  • Contaminated beef liver held at border
  • Latvia gets $2 million loan for waste project
  • Bank of Estonia finds buyer for stake in Optiva Bank
  • New rules to change VAT tax refunds
  • Rural tourism: Latvia's potential gold mine
  • Baltics in Brief
  • British experience improves the quality of Latvian management
  • Latvia unveils memorial plaque for rescuers of Jews
  • Peace Corps to close its doors
  • Man jumps from ferry, lands in Lithuania
  • Eight Grozny residents ask political asylum
  • Defense cuts not supported in Vilnius
  • Latvia enters the International Cocktail Competition
  • Vensel throws in towel, returns to academia
  • Estonian universities say three years for B.A.
  • Asylum-seekers' center coming to Estonia
  • Increased drug use spreads HIV in Latvia
  • President notes problems for foreign investors
  • Two held on robbing flamenco dancer
  • Lithuania looks to closing the first block of its nuclear power plant
  • Estonia and China build ties
  • Court releases war criminal Kononov
  • Same old new government set for power
  • Heshel's Kingdom: a family, a people, a divided fate
  • Adamkus wants foreigners to buy farmland
  • To build or not to build a library
  • Vandal leader on the route to justice
  • Integration will shrink food industry
  • A solution for Tolaram leaves 1,000 jobless in Daugavpils
  • Billionaire says Estonia is an 'open society'
  • Baltic parliaments' youth unite
  • Estonian birth rate up for first time in 11 years
  • Landsbergis asks Russia for billions
  • Firefighters call for rain
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Regional Air Control Center opens
  • Estonia not able to discuss German property before fall
  • A member of Latvian extremist group appeals fine
  • ‘Brothers in arms'
  • UNESCO school project promotes a culture of peace
  • Musicians support orphanages, city rocks
  • French historian unveils the crimes of communism
  • The road to hell is paved by good intentions: New rules on children crossing the borders point at the weaknesses of the legal system as a whole
  • Shroeder reserved on Baltics' wish to join NATO
  • Latvia not likely to be in ‘big bang' for NATO, say analysts
  • IT College to solve Estonia's shortages of IT specialists
  • World-famous Estonian composer dies
  • Swedish expert continues speculation on ferry sinking
  • Joe Cocker comes to rock
  • Lithuania hangs money laundry out to dry
  • Lithuanian security pushes extension of KGB lustration
  • Freighter sinks in Bay of Tallinn
  • Hungary keen on defense cooperation with Baltics
  • Riga mayor to limit contacts with Riga's sister cities
  • Lithuania says farewell to its cardinal
  • Clinton: Russia to accept Baltics in NATO
  • Subsidies could be introduced
  • Charity work not very easy in Latvia
  • Fossils from Estonia and Latvia may link sea and land animals
  • Woman dies after being struck by police car
  • Information lost in lats and documents
  • Teachers in West Lithuania call off strike
  • Sex discrimination in cancer treatment investigated
  • Runaway pig creates havoc on Lithuanian-Russian border
  • Baltic Economic Forum comes to Lithuania
  • Will a vice squad make Latvia more moral?
  • World champ ice hockey tournaments in Latvia
  • Estonian authorities crack down on drunk driving
  • Going to the 'other side' will now require a visa
  • Russia suggests forgive and forget
  • Lithuanian EU stances presented to ambassadors
  • Council of Europe leftist parliamentarians tell Lithuania to free political prisoners
  • Supporters of Lithuania's EU membership are on increase
  • Controversial Lithuanian mayor tries for Parliament
  • Fishermen to protest sea border pact with Lithuania
  • Drunk police officer shoots bouncer
  • Scientists study, repair defective mummy
  • Estonia's ruling alliance to ignore Parliament's extra session
  • Murder victim may have been involved in shady deal
  • 100 Estonian climbers safe after mudslide in Russia
  • CV-Online launches subsidiary in Poland
  • Meri's comments anger Canada
  • Tallinn public transport next in line for privatization
  • Paritate Bank victim of fowl scam
  • Liepaja metal works hit by dumping investigation
  • New parking garages raise questions
  • The Bottom line
  • Famous saxophonist Candy Dulfer fills house in Latvia
  • Rakvere gets 650,000EEK
  • Tourist guide dubbed 'WAMBAM'
  • Missing girl becomes pawn in diplomatic chess match
  • Latvians toast Le Tour
  • India frees pilots from Calcutta prison
  • Estonian vessels wait at a watery EU border
  • Estonian vessels wait at a watery EU border
  • Russia's request for Kononov rejected
  • Gorbachev speaks out against Latvia
  • Skele resigns top post for third time
  • Off the Wire
  • Religion over-regulated in Latvia
  • Changes announced in immigration laws
  • Police dismissals spark controversy
  • Ax falls on customs department head
  • Latvia, Lithuania finally prepare border pact
  • Slower than death: Riga’s housing department
  • Government unveils slimmed down budget
  • The high price of keeping a country green
  • Hotel scandal dogs president
  • Kalnins confident about NATO
  • Lithuanians abroad saluted in Vilnius
  • Finland: no set date for enlargement
  • Vilnius authorities approve heating sector overhaul tender
  • War crimes inquiry runs into resistance
  • Lithuanian state to continue subsidies for political parties
  • 'Superspy' seeks political asylum in Sweden
  • Lithuanian farmers won't shut down border - yet
  • Language cops, parties clash over campaign ads
  • U.S. millionaire to investigate Estonia ferry disaster site
  • President honored by Wallenberg group
  • TV news show breaks child porn story
  • Crew of Lithuanian missing ship Linkuva officially declared dead
  • Lithuania has to amend its land ownership laws
  • Amnesty period for ex-KGB agents running out
  • Low-budget vacation offers pastoral charm
  • Minister praises Occupation Museum's work
  • Lembergs sees improved relations with Russia
  • A less-traveled road to good health
  • Latvia's diabetes numbers up, lower than in West
  • Estonia won't change state secrets law
  • Security police to check candidates for top jobs
  • Government says power plants must cut pollution levels
  • Christians a powerful force on the air waves
  • Ozolinsh signs $25.5 million contract
  • Vilnius hot air balloon fest ends
  • Putin vows desire for stability in Baltic area
  • Funding holds up national language exams
  • Summed up
  • Aviators liberated in India to return to Latvia
  • Adamkus listened to journalists
  • Williams' deal with Lithuania won't be revised
  • Russia offers help to Baltics in clearing seas of mines
  • Latvia's economic picture clears
  • Baltic police team up with FBI
  • Latvia closes child abuse case against former top officials
  • Stunt man wows the crowds
  • Off the Wire
  • NATO secretary general praises Baltic cooperation projects
  • Readers, publishers query author's ID
  • Council ponders home heating as a human right
  • Ministry condemns Daugavpils desecration
  • Ministry condemns Daugavpils desecration
  • He enjoys role of devil's advocate
  • Peasants' Party calls for farmers
  • Stepping up the Euro-info
  • Y2K solved at Ignalina, state says
  • Prosecutors take last chance
  • Chechens find sympathy in Vilnius
  • Pensions adjustments may trigger Y2K bug
  • Naturalized citizen happy to be Latvian
  • Naturalized citizen happy to be Latvian
  • European court backs reporter's case
  • PirmaBanka looks for money
  • Two held on war crimes
  • Government reputation up
  • Latvia to dismantle nuclear reactor
  • Helicopter breaches Lithuanian airspace
  • Russian military leaves Latvian soil
  • Estonia's ruling coalition wins in Tallinn City Council shuffle
  • Vike-Freiberga sends party bill to Parliament
  • Rolandas Paksas teeters on resignation
  • Off the Wire
  • Trying to fill Estonia's ethnic divide
  • Latvia's Achilles heel
  • On the threshold: EIB says Latvia edging toward EU
  • Two arrested in connection with pedophile case
  • Lithuanian oil refinery to shut down
  • Pensions, referendum on table
  • Visaginas group pushes for Russian language
  • Police posers poke around Paksas' firm
  • The trial's the thing, Jewish groups say
  • Amendments could restart trials
  • Oil suppliers wanted, Iran need not apply
  • Koryakov murder trial set for Nov. 29
  • Popular Front calls it quits
  • Estonians to turn back clock for good
  • Chubais rules out blockade of Estonia
  • Tarand, Savisaar for president?
  • Waste dump to be sealed
  • Moscow politician lauds Estonia's attitude toward Russians
  • Infamous businessman killed in Tallinn
  • Baltics speak out for Chechnya
  • Jewish community marks 10th anniversary
  • Jews call on Europe to speak up
  • Parliament pulls the plug on Ignalina
  • Estonia's Euro-indifference
  • EU hopefuls to Brussels: Set a date
  • Off the Wire
  • Flight controllers are ready for millennium
  • Social Report paints troubling picture
  • Sperm bank hopes to stock swift swimmers
  • A Latvian fairy tale destined for the stars
  • Prosecutors hunting Karpickovs
  • Wanted in Latvia, campaigning in Russia
  • Another charged with Soviet-era crimes
  • Secret KGB files in spotlight again
  • Estonia to join WTO in November
  • Diphtheria epidemic plagues Latvia
  • Labor Democrats: Conservatives should quit
  • Lithuania, U.S. cooperate on money-laundering probe
  • Kuchma meets Belarusian opposition leader
  • America focuses on human rights in Belarus
  • McDonald's leaves sour taste for Zalgiris
  • Orchestra singing the blues
  • Railway cuts salaries, raises fares
  • Rural Estonia steers clear of major parties
  • An A for effort, an F in languages
  • Report inches Lithuania closer to EU
  • Local polls put power in Russian hands
  • Good grades, high hopes for Latvia
  • Paksas won't sign Williams deal
  • Off the Wire
  • Ilves criticizes United Nations
  • Acid discovered on Coke bottles
  • Mysterious death dogs rural police
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Finnish court convicts Estonian swindlers
  • Government urges Landsbergis to sell
  • Lithuania / Latvia try to ease border crossings
  • Documents suggest conflictof interest for Ventspils mayor
  • Former NKVD official denies genocide charges
  • Baltic Waves Radio to begin broadcasting
  • Ignalina nuclear plant nearly ready to face Y2K
  • Music review: Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra concert March 11, Wagner Hall.
  • State radio and TV on life support
  • Latvia tops in HIV infections
  • Musicians strike back with campaign of silence
  • Finno-Ugric conference in jeopardy
  • Foreigners often victims in Estonia
  • Teachers to ask for adjourning of specialised classes reform
  • Suicide high in ex-Soviet states
  • Authorities order Russian activist to leave
  • Estonia can teach Europe, Laar says
  • New Belarusian president proclaimed in Lithuania
  • Keeping NATO within reach
  • Law opens way for genocide home trials
  • Pro-Soviet leaders receive jail terms
  • Bad grades for 82 schools
  • Lithuanian budget readied for hacking
  • Upcoming elections not generating much enthusiasm
  • President most popular politician in Latvia
  • Latvia investigates Australian with alleged World War II past
  • 'Honest' lawyer nominated as prosecutor general
  • Double punishment for drug crimes
  • Congress of Estonia marks 10th anniversary
  • Pressing the flesh at Nimeta bar
  • City Council taxes fear
  • Unpaid workers vow hunger strike to death
  • Estonia's jobless to get free official language courses
  • Law to protect electronic information passed
  • Estonia ponders the GM food roller-coaster ride
  • Lithuania celebrates a fork in the road well taken
  • National passions subside around veterans march
  • Ambassador vows Sweden to support Latvia's defense system
  • Estonian MP rejects Russian criticism over war graves
  • Latvian student police detained for whizzing at Jewish memorial
  • Art gets input from Russian Embassy, Wiesenthal Center
  • Off the wire
  • Baltic states chief prosecutors discuss genocide crimes
  • EBRD delegates interested in tunnel project
  • EBRD the biggest investor in Lithuania
  • Investments in Ventspils discussed with EBRD
  • Latvian, Lithuanian prime ministers plot in Riga
  • Lithuanian police cut short Russian servicemen's journey
  • Lithuanian energy head blasts Latvian-Estonian plans
  • Analyst remains critical of Lithuanian Telecom advisers
  • New wave of emigration from Lithuania?
  • Central Lithuanian schools launch term-less strike
  • Arson suspected at Latvian embassy in Moscow
  • EBRD could assume even bigger role in Eastern Europe's future
  • Latvia ready to extend assistance to Croatia on path to EU
  • Upsurge in tick-borne disease predicted for summer 2000
  • Vilnius' trolley and bus drivers went on half-day strike
  • Lithuanians honor Japanese diplomat
  • Latvia sets June 17 as Occupation Day
  • New Latvian alcohol consumption culture requires restrictive
  • EBRD annual meeting makes no decisions important for Estonia
  • Estonia receives weapons detection devices
  • NATO secretary general visits Tallinn
  • Combating drug use in Ida Virumaa
  • Laar speaks about privatization, budget policy at EBRD
  • Meri turns down Opmann for central bank
  • Manure not needed
  • Two bombs explode in Stockmann
  • Power companies hint at possible merger
  • Candidates bang on NATO's "open door"
  • Lithuanian Conservatives ease off sunshine laws before elections
  • Poland's Katyn victims to be remembered in Estonia
  • Skele, LPA council haggle over oil dock shares price
  • Voru is a language without an army
  • Series of murders investigated in Lithuania
  • Polish-Lithuanian organizations support NATO expansion
  • NEBL slogan: Break the ice!
  • Potential coalition backs Riga mayor for PM
  • No problem getting drugs in jail
  • Paying the pipers their due
  • Bribery as a rule assumes shared responsibility
  • NATO commander tells Estonia to spend more
  • Estonia to get riot police
  • Recycling struggling to take hold in Estonia
  • 1 percent could give PIF hotel bid
  • The sale of a hotel for bread and butter?
  • Lithuanian Catholic Church apologizes for its mistakes
  • Latvia's Way party names Riga mayor for prime minister
  • Euro-style prison to be built in Tartu
  • 'King of beggars' becomes Kaunas mayor
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Flautists invited for masterclasses
  • Dutch support Lithuanian dairies
  • Kaunas workers call off hunger strike
  • Man of the world seeks a place at home
  • Conservative parliamentary faction splits
  • Political fights follow municipal elections
  • Preserving the Livonian language
  • Police, officials find no fault with fine
  • Two in a row for Finland
  • 2002 NATO membership could happen
  • Church protests erotic posters
  • Tartu meet covers political, social issues
  • Riga Stock Exchange toasts record auction of LG shares
  • Feminists demand gender equality
  • Butkevicius promises war with Conservatives
  • Latvia preaches ‘pragmatism’ after Russian election
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Panel addresses Kaliningrad relative to EU expansion
  • Skele sells pantry for $29 million
  • Estonian border guards to get new patrol boat
  • Adazi Training Base gets Czech tanks
  • Conservative Party excludes Vagnorius
  • Jobs for the handicapped? Information is the key
  • Vilnius Holocaust forum: no hush up over past history
  • Baltic presidents claim the same goals
  • “Film Spring” bursts into bloom in Vilnius
  • New Latvian ambassador to the U.S. arrived in Washington April 3
  • Historians study lessons of double dictatorships
  • The giants are getting ready
  • Estonia taxes matzoh bread
  • Public opinion on government plunges
  • Russia will not get in the way of EU membership
  • Estonians question the census
  • Latvians bake world’s largest pretzel
  • Alleged gang members die in car explosion
  • Child abuse protection is in its infancy
  • NATO secretary general: Latvia is a serious candidate to NATO
  • Deadline to exchange Soviet passports expires
  • Estonia lowers boom on piracy
  • Britain tightens down on bogus asylum claims
  • Latvia lacks top prosecutor for time being
  • Off the Wire
  • Estonian women earn less than men
  • Latvia's past again in the present
  • Would-be assassins of investigator charged
  • Latvia's population closer to grave than cradle
  • Also Tilze, not only Sovietsk
  • Williams - Mazeikiai deal enters every living room
  • Poll shows media tops, government flops
  • Estonian bank robber escapes
  • Estonian appeal court commutes deporter's punishment
  • Government to raise immigration quota
  • Tallinn airport to open Dec. 12
  • Czechs check up on Latvia
  • Researchers present new theory on sinking of passenger ferry Estonia
  • TB Cases Stabilizing
  • Estonia nixes poll for president
  • Another Banka Baltija judge bites the dust
  • Lithuania goes for Williams
  • Off the Wire
  • Sex education for men
  • Human Rights Office backs gay, lesbian rights
  • Sugar plant workers picket in Lithuania
  • Christian Democrats to back budget cuts
  • Russian company interested in oil sector
  • Seimas, U.S. Senate to cooperate
  • Lithuania shortens distance to NATO
  • Suspects arrested in police shooting
  • Latvians put under tabloid torch
  • Ireland says EU should treat candidates separately
  • Adamkus gets Estonian award
  • WTO talks may be delayed
  • Estonia, Russia try to clean up reservoir
  • Railway blockade fails for lack of support
  • Estonian Air cancels millennium flights
  • Timely move for Lithuania
  • Super takes the money and runs
  • New graft charges fired at Skele
  • New office takes aim at corruption
  • Law amended, deal with Williams looms
  • Soviet crimes in spotlight
  • It's referendum time in Latvia, again
  • Off the Wire
  • Children's theater gets front-row seat
  • Officials consider solutions for opera crisis
  • A hotel by any other name
  • Russian youth growing away from Latvia
  • Paksas marks 100 days in office
  • Free marketeers to Seimas: Reform, now
  • Comparative economics
  • Latvia ups the ante for NATO
  • Illegals in Estonia get second chance
  • Big scandal but few facts
  • Latvia hopes for better days
  • Sharetsky predicts revolution
  • Latvia, Norway to agree on tire removal
  • Vagnorius leads opposition on Ignalina
  • War declared on smugglers
  • Reporters reveal corruption
  • Warm reception for Latvia's Iron Lady
  • Off the Wire
  • Latvian Baltbat troops ready for Bosnia
  • Latvia's tuberculosis incubators
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Land reform drones on despite funding woes
  • Passions boil over land in Zverynas
  • Lithuania's TV monument
  • Lithuania gets rescue boat from U.K.
  • Possible changes in media law cause stir
  • Corruption and drugs prove profitable for the mafia
  • Estonia to spend millions on hospital survey
  • Report highlights dark side of transition
  • Finnish expert rejects explosion theory
  • World of good' month is Jan.4 - Feb.1
  • Activist stirs up human rights controversy
  • Latvian child pornographer indicted
  • Polish activists sentences doubled
  • Genocide case opened
  • Butinge terminal: oil flows, heads cool Butinge terminal: oil flows, heads cool
  • Balts mark their big day
  • Landsbergis challenges Vagnorius
  • Bus drivers demand pay increase, threaten to strike
  • Estonia abolishes corporate income tax
  • Adamsons: First Prosecutor General, then Pope
  • Age does not cap rage
  • Political assassination suspect held in Latvia
  • Quality of life survey
  • Public blue screens going private?
  • Website breaches in Latvia
  • Sweden and Russia plan military exercises
  • Estonia to tighten control of intellectual property
  • Estonia's sick fund up for grabs?
  • Journalists of Estonian business newspaper escape trial
  • Dogs blamed in death
  • Calendar oversteps border and good taste
  • Off the Wire
  • Mayor resigns after drinking bout
  • New income requirement for residence permits
  • Sprucing up lady liberty Milda
  • Insiders predict changes afoot for telecoms
  • Lithuanians to participate in UN mission
  • Efforts to aid Belarusian democracy
  • The last prewar Lithuanian president returns
  • Protesters demand release of red guerrilla Kononov
  • Education headaches
  • Estonian agriculture under the scythe
  • Remembering hard times
  • Vilnius Days: Lithuania's final summer fling
  • Teaming up to end smuggling
  • Latvia's mafia legend: Can a country go clean?
  • United for freedom
  • Explosives may have sunk ferry
  • Portugal presidency favors expansion
  • Infamous hacker tracked to Latvia
  • Pact could bring Kalejs to Latvia
  • Baltics in Brief
  • Estonia to buy radar with Nordic help
  • Trade center bash raises 8,100 lats
  • Estonia's fund aided 866 migrants in 1999
  • Parliament to change income declaration rules for state officials
  • Estonia gets list of tasks from NATO for achieving membership
  • By stick, foot and ski, Latvian athletes make the news
  • Belarus Embassy initiates talks over sanatorium
  • Court to investigate farmers' claims
  • Finnish Valio to buy Estonia's largest dairy
  • Lithuanian politicians are optimistic about EU
  • Orthodox Christmas candles glow in Latvia
  • Parliament politically pressures prosecutors
  • Nose count will put jobless Estonians to work
  • U.S. congressman urges war crimes prosecutions
  • The view on Kalejs
  • A New Year's jail break, sort of
  • Four countries play hot potato with Kalejs
  • World Bank loan to reach Lithuania in July
  • Portugal presidency makes enlargement priority
  • Meri sacks commander
  • Prodi: Latvia "must run very fast"
  • Death toll mounts as flu hits Latvia
  • Lithuania, top 10 events in 1999
  • Major events in the Baltics in 1999
  • They said it in 1999
  • Major events in the Baltics in 1999
  • Big come backs
  • Looking ahead, people to watch in 2000
  • Person of the Decade
  • Who will rule Lithuania in the end of this year?
  • Vilnius reaction to Yeltsin's resignation is almost none
  • World title bread loaf
  • Jewish community continues to rebuild in Riga
  • Meri: Estonians have good memories of Yeltsin
  • Raadi Airport is Tartu's white elephant
  • Soaring into the new millennium
  • Yeltsin fills Y2K news vacuum
  • Latvia pressured to prosecute Kalejs
  • Latvia's legal system tangled in turmoil
  • Off the Wire
  • Book frames the Holocaust in Latvian
  • Is Euroskepticism really growing?
  • Lithuanians rule the world in dance contest
  • Art projects receive funding
  • Latvian merchants join Generation Xmas
  • HMO arrives in Estonia: Businesses give clinic a ho-hum reception
  • Estonia applies for exceptions to EU hunting bans
  • Killings may be related
  • Killer sentenced in Gulbene deaths
  • White palace's spirit teaches to see beauty and feel love
  • Latvian president nominated for award
  • Meri, Canadian diplomat say relations flawless
  • News analysis: Latvia's the loser in teachers strikes
  • Latvians of the world unite for song festival
  • Illegal Nazi Party candidates vow to will run in elections
  • Landsbergis soldiers on despite opposition
  • Yiddish in its historic heartland
  • Farmers reap new pact with government
  • Old ammo kills Latvian youth, injures another
  • Boat found, fishermen presumed perished
  • Child benefit increase postponed
  • Estonian court fines TV station for porn scene
  • Social services back NRG deal
  • New party wants Russian museum
  • Candles glow for Chanukah season
  • Language law
  • Off the wire
  • Berzins: 'China is the most important player for us'
  • Kaktys resigns
  • Treaty inked as Kalejs probe continues
  • Bonuses slide through Parliament, City Council
  • Storm in Rakvere damages 110 houses
  • Language rules provoke protests
  • Storms attack Baltic coasts: Death toll at seven, wind and rain damage houses
  • Storms attack Baltic coasts: Death toll at seven, wind and rain damage houses
  • Off the Wire
  • Lady liberty gets a lift
  • Estonian reaction to Chechnya
  • Parliament debates European rights package
  • Kubilius’ new government approved
  • Another meeting, another inch closer: Feedback from NATO advances Lithuania’s aspirations
  • Birders defend Estonian minister’s conference trip
  • Peacekeepers get pay after several months’ delay
  • Corrupt connections in the capital
  • Estonians rescue Russian fishing crew
  • Ageing remember 1918
  • Program shuts down, drugs still in
  • Public information still private in Latvia: Law allows bureaucrats to limit public access to records
  • Reports of Skele’s demise exaggerated, say pols
  • Killing field found in Marijampole
  • Teachers walk as talks fall apart
  • Vote shortage kills referendum
  • Friends of nature sound a wake-up call on Easter
  • Better times bring depression in Latvia
  • Latvian road system needs more repair money
  • Lithuanians given chance to hand in illegal guns
  • Norway will remove hundreds of used tires
  • No more secret salaries, perks for Estonia's officials
  • Adamkus pushes land ownership for foreigners
  • Vodka makers squabble over booze trademarks
  • Anne Frank exhibition opens at War Museum
  • Estonian passports trafficked in Europe
  • Quit smoking campaign attracts record number
  • Latvian Ballet drama premieres
  • Baltic dancers take up Indian dance
  • Lithuania signs three agreements with Vatican
  • Cargo through Klaipeda seaport growing
  • War veterans mark Victory Day in Vilnius
  • Brazauskas makes a political comeback
  • Clues sought abroad on Latvian porn Web site
  • Tell me your dream!
  • Ministry to change name with changing times
  • 'Love bug' infects Estonia
  • Hockey makes paint fly in St.Petersburg?
  • Doctors against new hospital plan
  • Unions to form chain from Narva to Sillamae
  • Daugava undergoes water study
  • LPA sells one Ventspils Nafta share at RSE
  • Estonian embassy in Moscow attacked
  • KGB connection sells meat and potatoes?
  • Big cheers, but few changes for new team
  • What's next after the EBRD and the Baltic biz conference?
  • German bank takes Pirma Banka shares
  • Lithuania cares about its ethnic Lithuanians in semi-Soviet Belarus
  • Lithuania sets up illegal immigration defense
  • Radicals 'Perkonkrusts' handed prison time in blasts
  • Organizers clash and Vilnius Days is scrapped this year
  • Animals' 'insomnia' spreads rabies infection
  • Opmann drops out of central bank race, Estonians react
  • Red-light district in Tallinn debated
  • Police detain bombing suspects
  • Advance copies of exams bring up to $660
  • Off the Wire
  • Israel honors eight Latvians for saving lives
  • Jamaican minister makes Siauliai citizens turn around Vacation substitute finds himself in Lithuania full time and loving it
  • Bank head fined 30 million kroons on corruption
  • Baltic women get backup from First lady
  • Baltics in Brief
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  • Germany asks Latvia to find graves of navy officers
  • American college singers visit 'the land of song'
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  • Cohen: Russia has no veto over NATO decisions
  • The Blue Flag is hoisted in Majori
  • Baltic studies confab looks at academic cooperation
  • Soft porno is made in the high school swimming pool
  • Tallinn hosting European women's congress
  • Laar: EU, NATO accession costs for Estonia's own good
  • Central banker fights for independent bank controls
  • Estonia's census database under fire
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  • Parliament to back alcohol control in municipalities
  • Schroeder makes a 'historic' visit
  • Estonia's ruling coalition planning changes in election law
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  • Forest export keeps increasing
  • Swedes back off Kaunas Energy lease, French to take a crack at it
  • On commemoration day, Latvia still struggles with past
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  • Drug trial wraps up, verdict expected
  • Moving the capital to Tartu? Estonian officials examine the proposal's benefits and drawbacks
  • Visas granted to Yugoslav basketball team
  • Lithuania expects EU help for border project
  • Lithuanian, Polish peacekeepers team up for Kosovo
  • NATO official praises Latvia’s help in Kosovo Paksas, government cleared for takeoff
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  • One in three Estonians live in poverty
  • Spotlight turned on Estonian TV again
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  • Ignalina up and running again
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  • Lithuania uses quiet conference to engage Russia
  • Shooting the messenger?
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  • Lithuanians find new vacation destination
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  • Lithuania's "iron man" announces new challenge
  • Lithuania battles effects of scorching summer
  • Latvia can follow Lithuania's lead,but compensation from Russia unlikely
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  • Two Russian citizens go on hunger strike
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  • New developments in language law
  • Balloons fly over the center of Europe
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  • Free yourself with music
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  • Latvian advertising sells itself at Golden Hammer 2000
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  • Youth divisions of Estonian parties picking up
  • Laar: Communist criminals must be brought to justice
  • Estonia turns off loans to meet local debts
  • With one foot in Europe already
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  • Off the Wire
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  • Estonians root for Robertson
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  • Vilnius: stop ‘politicizing' of Butinge
  • Latvia progresses on Kalejs' extradition treaty
  • Lithuanian lasers conquer world markets
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  • Ministry prepares to attack AIDS
  • No more taxes for culture
  • Estonian politicians: dry out or bow out
  • Latvia's President warned by taxman
  • Report: Balts expected to join NATO
  • Nobel Prize winner honored at home
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  • Cook serenades Estonia on recent visit
  • Is Latvia ready for refugees?
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  • Off the Wire
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  • Thou shall not pass judgment...on the language law you have not read ...on the language law you have not read
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  • Documenting a trip around the world
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  • No political prisoners in Lithuania
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  • Kosovo won't hurt Balts' NATO bid
  • Nazi prison worker to stay in Canada
  • KGB past costs Estonian youth instructor his job
  • Skele returns to the helm
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  • Off the Wire
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  • Lithuania: Russia’s Canada?
  • Arafat to pick up choppers in Lithuania
  • Fed-up farmers flood streets
  • Welcome signs to NATO all in English
  • Auto group comes down hard on race organizers
  • Popular president brings new hope to Latvia
  • Violent storm sweeps through Sigulda
  • Shipping industry in the clear
  • Estonian state TV in the spotlight again
  • Estonian beaches safer for swimming
  • Vagnorius’ fall from grace
  • Mock plane crash tests army
  • Latvians bicker over new language law
  • Fed-up farmers flood streets
  • Skele back in the driver’s seat… again
  • Vilnius public transport users challenge strike-eager bus drivers
  • Man tries to shoot himself with frying-pan
  • Holocaust history in Lithuania, Poland and Germany
  • 18 feared lost with Lithuanian ship
  • To have a library one can't afford
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  • Russian Baltic Party of Estonia becomes a new political force
  • RSE members lift commissions and trading fees
  • Balts show Germans how to celebrate the summer solstice
  • Who is the provocateur? 'Russian' daily newspaper or the 'Latvian' state?
  • Baltic unity starts at grass-roots level - analyst
  • Unity may close gap between Baltics and NATO
  • Estonian president backs 'big bang' NATO bid
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  • Adamkus slaps MP for Russia baiting
  • Cutting the ribbon, popping the cork
  • Rising tide may float Latvia's boat to NATO
  • Eksteins captures heart of 20th century in book "Walking Since Daybreak"
  • Leaders defend Conservative MP
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  • IMF evaluates Latvia's development as successful
  • Russia hallucinates about 'superspy?'
  • Court stages hearings on scandalous murder
  • Alcohol takes its toll on midsummer drivers
  • Farmers take their demands to the borders
  • Estonia, Russia sign aviation, road transport pacts
  • Esto 2000 comes to Toronto
  • Shipwreck investigated in the Bay of Tallinn
  • Motorbike champion killed in Tallinn
  • Renovation to continue on Freedom Monument
  • Off the wire
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  • Four who saved Jews receive highest award
  • Genome project unique in the world
  • The Golden Bowl is still full: More than 30,000 children meet for song festival in Riga
  • Meri asks expats to lobby for Estonia
  • Majori beach water standards modified
  • EC offers Latvia eight chapters in EU talks
  • Hooray for our side!
  • War crimes proceedings
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  • Recreating the life of the ancient Balts
  • $10K available for Latvian students to study in U.S.
  • Riga Dome pipe organ restoration gets donation
  • Canada bars festival groups
  • Estonia to accede to UN anti-terrorism convention
  • JBANC: A Baltic link to Washington
  • Soybean product may endanger Baltic women
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  • Off the Wire
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  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
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  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
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  • Bank takes over sports hall
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  • New money targets SMEs
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  • The week's top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
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  • Power plant project awaits EC decision
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  • Muhu makes Top 10 list
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  • Power generator closure receives strong criticism
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  • Major complex to bring shoppers back to center city
  • Tallink stays afloat through debt restructuring
  • Tax assessment procedures - Room for improvement?
  • British expansion fueled on caffeine
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Experienced partner sought for new nuclear power project
  • Putting some soul into the music business
  • Taking Counsel: Civil liability of a sole governing body of a closed joint-stock company
  • Laval has its day in court
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  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
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  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Estonia exports its pension system
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  • Nasdaq restructuring will improve share trading platform
  • Taking Counsel: Will the extension of the transitional period really make any difference to the land market?
  • Investor interest returning as economies start to stabilize
  • Buyers move in as more companies struggle
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Enterprises want export guarantees and more dialogue between the government and banks
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  • Struggle to attract cargo traffic continues among Baltic ports
  • Bad faith acts by a member of a legal entity – is it possible for a creditor to recover the debts?
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Controversial pipeline given green light to move forward
  • Leave of absence without retention of work remuneration
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  • What not to do in a marketing campaign
  • Lithuanian entrepreneur making ethics a personal business
  • Airline giant considers Riga for latest hub
  • Political parties inching towards agreement on property tax
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  • Post office management works to cut losses
  • Taking Counsel: The new Lithuanian Law on Services: another step towards the common market?
  • Slesers running roughshod over the city
  • Estonia works to build brand image
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Not so fast for that fast credit
  • Taxi wars head to court
  • Commercial Law amendments in the works
  • Japanese market attracts Latvian producers
  • Poll reveals conflicting signals
  • Estonians claim Latvia is risky business
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Skies getting crowded again over Vilnius
  • Taking Counsel: The company is losing money – should the director or management be held responsible?
  • Loss of key staff won’t change paper’s direction, says editor
  • Proposal would trigger foreign banks to retreat from Latvia
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Pharmaceuticals receive direct injection
  • TeliaSonera halfway towards target
  • Taking Counsel:Culpable self-help, or ‘Patvara’
  • Palanga in no rush for season’s closing
  • Latvenergo signs contract to import electricity
  • Agreement expected on moving nuclear project forward
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Central Market said to harbor criminal gangs
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  • Smokers targeted for additional revenue
  • Tax burden excessive
  • Taking Counsel: Consumer protection and immovable property
  • Poll results paint bleak picture
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Audit shows government botched Parex rescue
  • Recent rally not fully based on fundamentals
  • Company briefs
  • TeliaSonera gets its prize
  • Banks rein in lending as losses mount
  • Fortumo looks East for new markets
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Money managers suffer as spare change dries up
  • Exporters receive financial support
  • Asset sales get under way
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  • Credit conditions tighten
  • Truckers look to state for protection
  • Taking Counsel: Control measures for competition assurance as adopted in public procurement procedures
  • Students fret over loan program
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Taxi violence reflects larger problems
  • Pan-Baltic airline talks again on the table
  • Termination of Employment and Union Representation
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  • Russia in push for market share
  • Company closure a threat to state reputation
  • Parex welcomes new owner and capital
  • Rapid development planned for Riga’s port
  • Baltic shares in play after takeover bid
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Banks say time is right to buy stocks
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  • IMF approves Latvia loan
  • Questions remain over Baltic sea hijacking
  • Latvian companies look north for electricity
  • Riga to develop stronger transit hub infrastructure
  • Taking Counsel: Executive pay
  • Electricity worries take center stage
  • TeliaSonera offer not expected to spark bidding war
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Swedish bank moves to restructure its operations
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  • TeliaSonera ready to consolidate Baltic operations
  • Hijacking threat warning issued for the Baltic high seas
  • Taking Counsel: Legal Protection Proceedings Become More Available
  • Government support not enough for some businesses
  • Officials discuss closer ties in new power plant project
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Growing reserves keep pressure on Parex
  • Taking Counsel: European Trends and Perspectives in the Regulation of Prescription1
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  • Ericsson ramps up production
  • The cost of bad credit
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Investment hopes sparkle in the stormy downturn
  • Taking Counsel: Amendments to the Law on State and Local Government-Owned Capital Shares and Enterprises
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  • Lithuanian truckers face border congestion
  • Group wants government to privatize operations
  • Mortgage bank chief to turn over reins
  • Entrepreneurs to receive more support
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Tax fraud schemes on the rise
  • SAS recovers properties in asset shuffle
  • Company briefs
  • Taking Counsel: Responsibility for notifying creditors prior to filing a restructuring case
  • Latvian and Russian sides meet to improve business ties
  • Drastic cuts made in airport expansion forecast
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Questions remain over Parex deal
  • Banks have built strong cushion to weather the storm
  • Taking Counsel: Some Labor Law Amendments Possibly in the Pipeline
  • Company briefs
  • airBaltic – flying above the radar
  • EBRD says more restructuring needed for Parex
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Long haul flights from the Pacific reach Riga
  • Rail freight prices stabilize
  • Business leaders call for better cooperation
  • Taking Counsel: The latest praxis from the Supreme Court of Lithuania: it’s now ‘pay to play’, as café owners who play music in public areas will have to pay
  • Company briefs
  • Support grows for Baltic Sea gas route
  • EBRD to acquire stake in Parex bank
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Globe-trotting consultants converge on Tallinn
  • Recent developments in Residential Property Management
  • Company briefs
  • Sell off could threaten newspaper integrity
  • Vilnius gets new airline
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Olympic cashes in Ukrainian chips
  • Preventing fraud – effective internal controls
  • Company briefs
  • World Economic Forum discusses Lithuanian prospects
  • Respected Latvian newspaper titles sold off
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Estonian Air in tail spin
  • Fresh changes to the Insolvency Law 
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  • Latvian Post may reduce delivery days
  • FlyLAL may resume business
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Hotel protests continue
  • Major investment workshop planned in Riga
  • Taking Counsel: State’s liability for damage caused by wild animals
  • Company briefs
  • Kalvitis steps down as Lattelecom chairman
  • Barclays to invest in Lithuania
  • Baltic Sea pipeline impact to be assessed
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Company briefs
  • Taking Counsel: P2P File Sharing Networks – Be Careful!
  • Double Coffee opens in China
  • Buy building, get land worth 1 million euros for free!
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Mass layoffs for construction companies
  • Multi-apartment housing to revitalize construction sector?
  • No country for businessmen
  • Lithuanian energy not tied to Russia: Sekmokas
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Sharp decline in retail sales hits hard
  • Company briefs
  • Latvian businesses seek out greener pastures
  • Involvement of employees in employer’s decision-making
  • Hotels threaten protest over VAT
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Government plans new real estate tax
  • In-house or outsourcing?
  • Taking Counsel: The adjustment of contracts in the contemporary economic environment
  • Leo LT asks for three months
  • McDonalds opens first new restaurant in 10 years
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Crude oil company to blend fuel
  • Unemployment reaches eight year high
  • Board members: dismissal at will?
  • Company briefs
  • Real estate transactions reach all time low
  • German companies pessimistic, demand strong leadership
  • Hobby Hall pulls out of Baltics
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Parex Bank to restructure
  • Company briefs
  • Lithuanian banks hit hard
  • Taking Counsel: Bankruptcy of natural persons still a concept
  • The Baltic Queen has arrived
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • E-services see boom in busting economy
  • Canadians could supply reactor
  • Germans pessimistic, demand strong leadership
  • Company briefs
  • Taking counsel: So you are not paying your mortgage to the bank. What may you expect?
  • Bigbank slashes staff, locations
  • Consortium allays fears on bypass pipeline
  • Marks&Spencer enters Estonian retail market
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • PMs united on energy future
  • State Radio and Television may merge
  • Taking counsel: “Unidentified construction objects” in protected territories
  • Credit default on the rise
  • Skyways enters Vilnius market
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • EBRD buys bank shares
  • Company briefs
  • Real estate market can still pull investors
  • Taking counsel: Debtor and Creditor
  • AirBaltic changes routes in Lithuania
  • Real estate workers go it alone
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • INPP fuel storage ready in 2011
  • Taking counsel: More transparent and effective public procurements
  • Company briefs
  • Dramatic slump in construction sales
  • LD to expand to Lithuania, increase port functions
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Workers salaries on the chopping block at Eesti Energia
  • Prisma storming Lithuania
  • Company briefs
  • Estonian businesses to ride out the economic crisis
  • Taking Counsel: Information for submission to the Enterprise Register
  • AirBaltic CEO’s salary under fire
  • Coal-powered energy plant gains support
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Brussels-Vilnius flights begin
  • Struggling dairy industry turns to EC
  • Taking Counsel: Relationship between the arbitration agreement and the advance consent of incorporator
  • Latvian businesses to receive 200 million euros from EBRD
  • Sport channel needs millions to survive
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Mazeikiu refinery sale stalls
  • Taking Counsel: A quicker way to debt enforcement
  • Company briefs
  • Maziekiu refinery to be sold
  • Tele2 holds steady, pushes for government tender
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Major retailers face investigation
  • Company briefs
  • Taking Counsel: Administrative burdens imposed on businesses in Lithuania
  • Energy Ministry to take control of LEO LT
  • Baltic airports announce new strategies
  • BASF adjusts to crisis
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • IT nexus opens in Kaunas
  • Company briefs
  • Olympic sees huge loss
  • Taking Counsel: Termination of board members
  • Latvijas Balzams enjoys record sales
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Advertising decline could hurt journalism
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Taking Counsel: In the light of financial crisis – accelerated public procurements
  • Company briefs
  • Milking the dairy industry
  • Ailing AS Kalev to restructure empire
  • British ambassadors urge investment
  • New Vilnius airport CEO faces tough task
  • Why online marketing?
  • Taking Counsel: Annual vacation postponement and compensation in Latvia
  • Company briefs
  • Minister demands answers from Leo LT and proposes board reshuffle
  • Spat raises fears of major energy shortfall
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • FlyLAL wants license back
  • Snaige halts Kaliningrad production
  • Taking Counsel: Real Estate Vindication from an Acquirer in Good Faith
  • Swedish banks to stay in Baltics
  • The week’s top news in world financial markets from Maximus Capital
  • Mayor of Tallinn suggests buying Swedbank
  • Snoras barred from the U.K.
  • Taking Counsel: Changes to the Commercial Law
  • Company briefs
  • Swedbank appoints new Latvian head
  • Rentokil to invest in Lithuania
  • Nearing bankruptcy, Latvian Radio may be silenced
  • SAS pulls out of Baltics 
  • Taking Counsel: Lithuania’s reaction to the judgement in the case of L vs Lithuania
  • Lithuania tops Baltic real estate market
  • A burning success
  • FlyLAL bankrupt, minister demands investigation
  • Riga Stock Exchange rebrands itself as NASDAQ OMX Riga
  • Taking Counsel: Terminations: Proceed with Caution
  • Company briefs
  • Leo LT under fire
  • Kalev left high and dry
  • INPP shutdown unclear
  • FlyLAL grounded - 30,000 passengers without refunds
  • Taking Counsel: Decision making at the board: diagnosis – disablement
  • LDA: Lithuania not viable for investment
  • Minister: Lithuania must pay for false fish accusations
  • Prisma announces bold new expansion plans
  • FlyLAL sold to Swiss holding company
  • How to choose a marketing agency that will make you money
  • Company briefs
  • airBaltic to buy out remaining shares
  • Taking Counsel: Materiality in grounds for employee termination
  • Car sales expected to plummet
  • Estonian company implicated in money laundering scheme
  • Ailing FlyLAL shedding routes
  • Court uphold seizure of airBaltic assets
  • Lithuania refuses nationalization offer
  • Kubilius threatens to sack Leo LT management
  • WAN concerned over VAT hike
  • Taking counsel: Amendments to the Law on Gardeners’ Societies
  • Company briefs
  • Real estate value to keep sliding in 2009
  • Swedbank to set up division to help ailing economy and clients
  • Cinema revenue up 14.5 percent
  • Merko faces fresh corruption charges
  • Estonia to foster wind energy
  • Lithuania to sell stake in Mazeikiu Nafta
  • Taking Counsel: Rent reduction requests
  • Company briefs
  • Tez Tour seeks to buy airline
  • Ekspress Group desperately selling shares
  • Nils Melngailis named new Parex CEO
  • Company cars best motivator for Lithuanians
  • New car sales down 50 percent
  • Company briefs
  • Stenders soap expands to Eastern markets
  • Taking Counsel: Guilty! (until proven innocent...)
  • Snoras not in danger: bank chief
  • Billion-euro bailout to speed up energy link
  • Estonian government and SAS battle for national carrier
  • Court arrests Kalev’s assets
  • Food and fuel prices to plummet
  • Taking Counsel: Common Partial Ownership: Practical Aspects of Partitioning and a Priority Right to Buy Shares Held in Co-ownership
  • Rampant job cuts to continue in Estonia
  • VIA claims millions from FlyLAL
  • Vilnius airport turns to prosecutors
  • Taking Counsel: Retailers, be aware!
  • Company briefs
  • Parex Bank posts losses “tens of millions”
  • Estonian Air to overhaul strategy
  • Telecom companies blast surveillance law
  • Kaubamaja’s profits far below expectations
  • Bourses to extend working hours
  • OU Superseacat declares bankruptcy
  • Taking Counsel: Keep your cash where your loan is
  • Company briefs
  • Car sales to drop in coming years
  • Olympic’s lucks runs out on the bourse
  • Double Coffee feels the grind
  • Government invests in LNG
  • Bolderaja Ltd puts 140 million into new plant
  • Double Coffee feels the grind
  • Parex bought by government
  • Lithuania slashes required reserves
  • Taking Counsel: Bank deposit guarantees increased in light of the financial crisis
  • Company briefs
  • Parex Bank registers massive bonds
  • SEB Estonia compensates clients over fund devaluation
  • Electricity prices to rise 18 percent
  • Tallink’s profits drop while owners top the rich list
  • Lithuanian electricity prices on the rise
  • EIB hands Latvia massive loan
  • Company briefs
  • Taking counsel: Employee Suspension: Proceed with Caution
  • Company briefs
  • Estonian company pioneers online expo
  • Latvians leaving creditors holding the bag
  • Swedbank reports respectable third-quarter results
  • Baltic air wars intensify
  • S&Ps downgrades Lithuania Energy
  • flyLAL settles debts with RIX
  • Mazeika takes over Leo LT
  • Estonian central bank announces budget deficit
  • Taking counsel: The legal protection of a consumer in the field of E-commerce
  • Swedbank is still top of the tree
  • Lithuania looks for electricity after Ignalina
  • Baltic Bank Satisfaction
  • RIX extends runway
  • Swedish power link battle rages on
  • SEB gives dire outlook for Estonian economy
  • Lithuanian budget to go for debate on Oct. 28
  • Commissioner calls of president to reject budget
  • Latvian analysts deny Iceland scenario
  • SEB Bank faces illegal activity and bond portfolio problems
  • INPP will stay open: Economy Minister to EU
  • Company briefs
  • Taking counsel: Efficient debt recovery through procedure of notice
  • Latvia wants equal benefits from Lithuania-Sweden energy bridge
  • Kaubamaja sales up, shoppers undeterred by economic woes
  • Riga Airport launches appeal
  • Finance Ministry predicts large 2008 deficit
  • Taking Counsel: New, more effective bankruptcy procedure in effect
  • Company briefs
  • Finnish Pohjola Bank to launch branch in Estonia
  • FlyLAL battles airBaltic in court
  • Banks face ‘sabotage’
  • Swedbank in crisis
  • Baltic inflation rates continue to fall
  • Lithuanians pessimistic about future economy
  • Fitch downgrades Baltic ratings
  • SEB: Latvian economy to shrink in 2008
  • Company briefs
  • Russia throws down Druzhba gauntlet
  • Tallinn TV tower revival in the works
  • Swedbank fends off rumors of a fall
  • Estonian Air forced to rethink strategy
  • The future of banking
  • Maximum effect
  • Taking Counsel: Obtaining a construction permit in Kursiu Nerija
  • Company briefs
  • Two plants in region before Ignalina replacement
  • Construction begins on new business park
  • Moscow gives property market the chills
  • Taking counsel: Inflation plan revisited
  • Company briefs
  • Baltic tourism up despite economic woes
  • Hedge funds help investors weather recession
  • Banks ponder collapse of Lehman
  • Hotel chain consolidates with country club addition
  • Taking Counsel: Demanding of access over an immovable of another and compensation for constructions over boundary of neighboring immovables
  • Company briefs
  • Baltic unity needed on energy bridge
  • Slesers: Riga Airport to save economy
  • Latvian housing prices plummet
  • Estonian Air fights its corner
  • Company briefs
  • Taking Counsel: Peaceful Settlement of a Civil Dispute — Is It Possible?
  • Nuclear plant faces further delays
  • Three Baltic law firms merge
  • Small breweries face falling profits
  • Sweet times for Kalev
  • Taking counsel: Deadbeat difficulties: Insolvency action as a form of debt collection
  • Company briefs
  • Norwegians buy Vilnius logistics center
  • Hedge fund moves into consumer electronics
  • Latvian Railways to split
  • Teo LT sues individual for 12 million litas
  • Megarenta bought by Norwegian company
  • More passengers, more profits at Tallinn ports
  • Ditton blasts media inaccuracy
  • Ditton blasts media inaccuracy
  • Company briefs
  • Taking Counsel: The obligation of a purchaser to examine all purchases
  • Farmers to receive aid for producing biofuels
  • Wood factory plans stall
  • Kivioli profits plummet despite high oil prices
  • SAS to drop airBaltic
  • ELKO is wired for sales
  • Baltika to supply German chain
  • SAS bails out of airBaltic
  • Olympic shuffles its deck
  • Taking Counsel: New public procurement legislation
  • Company briefs
  • Germans buy Kaunas Akropolis
  • Saku leaves the bourse
  • Estonian Railroad to be split in two
  • AirBaltic business takes off
  • Finn takes the helm at Saku
  • Recession arrives in Estonia
  • Taking Counsel: State aid may mean more trouble and less aid
  • Company briefs
  • Scramble for energy
  • Veolia cleans up the country
  • Bensons runs out of petrol
  • Gazprom sues over contract dispute
  • Estonia energizes its Baltic neighbors
  • Stradivarius sounds out Kaunas
  • Latvia leads Euro retail slide
  • Merko split in two
  • Eesti Energija wants third of Latvian market
  • Baltic unemployment still low
  • New presses ready to roll
  • Plans for nuclear plant move forward
  • Taking Counsel: Troubled economy complicates collecting on bad debts
  • Company briefs
  • Slump claims first celebrity victim
  • Housing prices set to tumble further
  • Maxima works to restore confidence after food poisoning
  • Plans for nuclear plant move forward
  • Swedes to fix the weakest link
  • Latvians facing poverty in old age
  • The Image Makers: Latvia
  • Call for single Baltic energy giant
  • Taking Counsel: Auditors’ Civil Liability – Ready for a Limit
  • Company briefs
  • Russia promises more oil
  • No love lost for Euro
  • ‘Chaos’ over power plant company
  • Tough times encourage restructuring
  • ForMin urges business to look abroad
  • Latvian company buys Estonian energy
  • Current accounts need to be sorted - UniCredit
  • Estonia mulls state sell-off
  • Swedish banks not worried about Baltic defaults
  • Company briefs
  • Polish to buy gov. oil
  • Electric dreams
  • Shopping bonanza hits town
  • Taking Counsel: Duty of Good Faith and Fairness: On the Rise in Judicial Evaluation of Late Payment Penalties?
  • Ignalina company under EU investigation
  • Turning the tap off
  • The Image Makers: Estonia
  • Hipoteku, Aizkraukles back SMEs
  • Baltic banks' outlook still positive
  • Ukio profits stable
  • Positively double negative about LEO LT
  • Taking Counsel: Booze It and lose it
  • Company briefs
  • Foul play on the Swedish seas
  • Lithuania developing nuclear plant partnership
  • Gazprom controversy flare-up
  • Riga’s airport to take off
  • Haapsalu shows value of heritage investment
  • Company briefs
  • Taking Counsel: Cassation in administrative courts
  • Piebalgs defends Nord Stream
  • France keen on joining Lithuania’s new nuclear reactor project
  • Lithuanian-Polish grid link could become reality in 2013
  • Estonia mulls own nuclear power plant
  • Latvia eyes Ukraine for energy supplies
  • Kirkilas, Grybauskaite trade barbs over economy
  • NETS lands PKK
  • Baltic Fund celebrates 10 years
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Some thoughts on debt collection
  • Company briefs
  • Report: Port bosses collide over wharf sale
  • Eesti Post likely to see ownership change
  • Health inspectors slam Maxima with fine
  • Russia slaps ban on Rokiskio Suris, then lifts immediately
  • Danish envoy: Lithuania should focus on rule of law
  • Slesers: ‘SAS will not take over airBaltic’
  • Company briefs
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Possibilities and restrictions between employers, employees
  • Inflation climbs in all three countries
  • Report: SEB sends in debt collectors
  • Piebalgs: energy prices to remain high
  • Conflicting reports about Swedish energy
  • Swedbank is here to stay
  • Taking counsel: Residential tenancies and state protection: Can you contract out of it?
  • Company briefs
  • Carlsberg offers buyout of minority stakes in Saku Brewery
  • Snaige’s sales keep rising
  • Canadians upbeat on wind power for Hiiumaa
  • Hard-landing for Estonia, Latvia all but guaranteed
  • Food prices hound EU, while leaders debate solution
  • Taking Counsel: Law provides restrictions to purchase of immovables
  • Company briefs
  • Finno-Ugric tunnel dreams persist
  • Latvian Railways mulls new Daugava bridge
  • Tour agencies brace for insolvency
  • Adamkus, Kirkilas take Lithuania’s energy case
  • Latvia’s new booming business – debt collection
  • Taking Counsel: Rental of commercial premises: what should be considered?
  • Company briefs
  • Higher sales, repairs help Mazeikiu recover
  • Latvia’s millers reap windfall
  • ‘Power bridge’ deal finalized
  • Real estate agents caution against state’s planned property sales
  • PM Putin fires warning shot at Baltic ports
  • Taking Counsel: Amendments to Latvia’s Commercial Law in the works
  • Company briefs
  • International oil trader seeks assurance in Latvia
  • Estonian advertising market heads south
  • Russian bank acquires troubled Multibanka
  • Stumbras looks to build new factory
  • Latvia’s inflation hits 12-year high of 17.5 percent
  • Taking Counsel: How strong is competition in Estonia’s banking sector?
  • Company briefs
  • Swedish firm purchases two Latvian forestry companies
  • Estonia to build oil shale plant in Jordan
  • Osinovsky: transit unlikely to return to Estonia
  • Lithuania’s utility chief lashes out at Poland, Latvia
  • Company briefs
  • Taking Counsel: Has springtime arrived for the real estate market?
  • Estonian utility close to sealing deal with Jordan
  • Venerable yeast factory to shut down
  • Kirkilas demands bureaucrats get to bottom of capricious milk market
  • Summer of 2008 may lead to brewery blues
  • Estonians doubt managers' skills
  • Taking counsel: Legal status of EU foreigners: easier, or more difficult?
  • Company briefs
  • FlyLAL mulls taking competitor airBaltic to court
  • State to hold onto Eesti Telekom
  • Bad loans rising in Latvia
  • Mining outfit eyes Estonian substrata
  • Russia plans nuclear plant for Kaliningrad exclave
  • Estonians don't trust managers
  • Taking counsel: Developments in Estonian labor law
  • Company briefs
  • IMF report: risk of hard-landing
  • Telecom share swap approved
  • Latvia to lift 10 percent requirement
  • Creation of Leo LT postponed yet again
  • Why the Baltic property crash is good news
  • Taking counsel: Personal liability of directors to creditors
  • Company briefs
  • Gazprom could help Latvia build new plant
  • Tallinn port postpones plans for a new terminal
  • Vilnius, Brussels see Ignalina in different perspectives
  • Struggling Snaige offers convertible bonds
  • Estonia turns the corner
  • Baltic banking crisis 'unlikely'
  • Enterprise Estonia extends British invitation
  • Taking counsel: One more ‘final’ deadline for reinstating property rights to land
  • Company briefs
  • Merko to give library tender another shot
  • Energy row splits Latvia’s government
  • Ignalina managers ask for clarity on plant’s fate
  • Government agrees on share swap with TeliaSonera, Blackstone
  • Taking counsel: Tendencies of financial infoclosure
  • Lithuania finally acts on new pipeline project
  • Company briefs
  • Latvian metalworker buys Polish company
  • Lithuania gets serious about LNG terminal
  • Eesti Energia gets lower than hoped for price hike
  • Former Latvian PM: peat is best energy alternative
  • Company briefs
  • Taking counsel: Copyright in trademark – an issue that should not be forgotten
  • Debt collector inundated with work
  • Latvia tightens competition law
  • Estonians excluded from Latvia’s national library project
  • Minister proposes stake swap for telecom companies
  • Kirkilas sanguine after EU meeting in Brussels
  • Company briefs
  • Taking counsel: The unfair commercial practices law in Latvia
  • Report: former postal CEO was well paid
  • New cement plant for Lithuania postponed
  • Swedbank chief says Hansabanka will survive economic cycle
  • Port of Tallinn continues to languish
  • Latvian minister wants to jump-start economy
  • It’s March and the Blackberries are ready
  • Company briefs
  • Ventspils Nafta negotiating oil supplies to Belarus
  • Mazeikiu mulls three pipeline routes
  • Taking counsel: Estonian Medical Products Act infringes EU rules on advertising
  • Ekspress Group, Delfi shine in 2007
  • A nuclear power plant for Estonia?
  • TeliaSonera offers a compromise split of Lattelecom
  • Company briefs
  • Taking counsel: Liability of a company director: who has a right to file an action?
  • Golden arches to multiply throughout Latvia, Baltics
  • Gerhards stresses need for new power plants
  • Estonia expresses misgivings over EU energy reform measures
  • So will it be 2015, 2020, or perhaps even 2025?
  • Company briefs
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Non-resident taxing in Estonia
  • Russian rail chief muses Latvian transit potential
  • Ansip criticizes deal with China
  • E.O.S., Pakterminal to merge
  • French, Latvian firms selected for postal bank
  • Brussels gives Latvia poor marks
  • WEBSITE EXCLUSIVE: Bertolt Flick Q&A
  • Brussels alarmed at Latvia’s economic imbalances, runaway inflation
  • PKN Orlen says Liepaja is as attractive as Klaipeda for a new pipeline
  • Taking counsel - Introducing SEPA – the single euro payment area
  • Company briefs
  • Achema eyes Africa, LNG plant
  • Vicious circle at Latvia’s post worsens
  • Kirkilas echoes calls for Ignalina extension
  • Prosecutors arrest 16 equity stakes belonging to Lembergs and family
  • Taking counsel - Changes to labor legislation in Estonia
  • Company briefs
  • New contracts with Gazprom to propel gas prices
  • From wire reports
  • Adamkus: EU might be willing to negotiate on postponing Ignalina reactor closure
  • TeliaSonera ups the ante in Lattelecom sell-off
  • flyLAL to go toe-to-toe with airBaltic
  • Taking counsel - Effect of master plan solutions on land plot development
  • Company briefs
  • Mazeikiu loses market share in 2007
  • Godmanis cancels historic Lattelecom employee buyout, hints of public auction
  • Kirkilas urges expediency on nuclear amendments
  • Buyout of Admiralu Klubs casino chain collapses
  • Taking counsel - Implementing the principle of opportunity in criminal cases
  • Company briefs
  • Latvia’s food prices poised to continue skyward trajectory
  • Lithuania to train nuclear power experts
  • Maxima boosts 2007 sales, could become Baltics’ largest company
  • LVM chief: Latvia overrun with forests
  • China to build container terminal in Muuga
  • Taking counsel - Overreaction and under-regulation in public procurement policy
  • Lithuania chooses nuclear waste site
  • Company briefs
  • Ventbunkers sues Ventspils Nafta for $90 mln
  • Riga-Valga train connection to be renewed in near future
  • Estonia to present position on Nord Stream soon
  • Google may build massive data center in Lithuania
  • Introducing Leo LT – the ‘three-headed lion’
  • Latvia to prioritize higher energy output
  • Taking counsel - Transactional booby-trap: claim rights against tenants on property transfers
  • Company briefs
  • Staff and wire reports
  • State, private energy firm keeping mum after finishing merger talks
  • Two large oil handlers in merger talks
  • Property prices in Riga falling, but not dramatically
  • Kreenholm to lay off another 900 workers
  • Gas prices set to soar
  • Estonia approves questionable tax amendment
  • Company briefs
  • Estonian court appeals to Brussels for legal clarification on sugar fines
  • Deal on national power utility remains elusive
  • Melngailis holds onto CEO spot, Lattelecom privatization uncertain
  • Vilnius to get its world trade center by 2010
  • Kiev’s drive to rid city of casinos to hurt Olympic
  • Company briefs
  • Vitol Group still determined to transform Ventspils terminal into trading hub
  • Kirkilas appeals to patriotism of private energy firm
  • Polish firm to acquire tourism leader Novaturas
  • Kreenholm’s woes continue in court
  • Lattelecom ‘deal of century’ on verge of annulment
  • European retailers buy majority stake in Iki
  • Taking counsel - Bankruptcy: It’s getting personal
  • Company briefs
  • Maag Group to buy Rakvere dairy from British investor
  • Gas prices likely to soar in 2008
  • Sweden’s inspectors bar Tallink liner from sailing due to numerous defects
  • Talks on nuclear plant break down
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Si vis pacem, para bellum!
  • Company briefs
  • Russian minister: pipeline to stay dry forever
  • Eesti Energia purchases wind energy project
  • State, NDX Energija start talks
  • Kirkilas : France keen on Lithuania’s nuclear project
  • Tourist numbers down in Estonia, but sales grow
  • Huge new retail space for Riga
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Who exactly is an issuer of securities?
  • Company briefs
  • Stoneridge to set up production in Estonia
  • Reval to open new hotel in downtown Riga
  • Brussels questions power grid sell-off
  • Rokiskio Suris acquires stake in Latvian dairy
  • Reports: Latvia most vulnerable to international liquidity crisis
  • Inflation in Latvia storms ahead to 13.2 percent
  • Ratings agencies look at Latvia
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Data Protection
  • Company briefs
  • Nuclear plant team being picked
  • Lattelecom buyout put on hold
  • Sweden and Lithuania to hook up
  • Latvia to be hit with multiple price hikes
  • Sampo to rebrand as Danske Bank
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Advertising tricks of the Estonian real estate market
  • Company briefs
  • Bad debts not a threat to lending
  • Ministers ebb on cod quotas
  • Estonian Energy to study Jordan’s oil shale opportunities
  • Lattelecom buyout awaits final approval
  • RIMI sales still climbing
  • Lehman Bros in for the long haul
  • TAKING COUNSEL: EU Commission: Improved EU Telecom rules promote effective competition and investment
  • Company briefs
  • Competition council OKs booze company buyout
  • Riga airport flying into regulatory turbulence
  • Estonian Railway sees profits on track
  • Credit unions get in on the card game
  • Your last fish and chips?
  • TAKING COUNSEL: How European is a European company?
  • Company briefs
  • Market-maker first for Lithuania
  • Latvia’s inflation set to linger
  • Inflation worries clash with EU demands for higher spending
  • Nuclear project squeezed by Poland’s energy demands
  • Government to split Estonian Railway
  • TAKING COUNSEL: First North – an alternative marketplace for small and medium enterprises – soon to open in Tallinn
  • Company brief
  • Ansip wary of Russian gas
  • FlyLAL says prepared to take majority stake in airBaltic
  • Inflation soars in all three Baltic states, triggering renewed fears of contagion
  • Polish minister irks Lithuanian leadership, casts shadow over Vilnius summit
  • Swedish-Lithuanian investment highlighted
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Cross-border mergers to be easier with adoption of new law
  • Company briefs
  • Mazeikiai refinery woes deepen on all fronts
  • Estonia remains most business-friendly in region
  • Presidents to agree on pipeline at Vilnius conference
  • Soaring demand for grain to trigger bread price increases
  • Zatlers appeals to Latvians to save more, minister warns of 15 percent inflation
  • TAKING COUNSEL: On the nuances of dispute resolution in commercial contracts
  • Company briefs
  • Refinery shuts down for major repairs
  • Balts greet EU energy policy with skepticism
  • Top Lithuanian officials view EU funds situation differently
  • Kirkilas: euro could be reality in 2010
  • Alta Capital poised to take over Kalev chocolate
  • Baltic's big hitters revealed
  • Jones Lang LaSalle forms Baltic alliance
  • Warsaw gamble looks a safe bet for Olympic
  • New York finance group to lead Latvia’s 427 million euro telecom deal
  • Estonia wavers on permission for Nord Stream’s geo-survey
  • FlyLAL chafes at airBaltic’s market dominance
  • PKN Orlen could merge with Lotos
  • BITE bullish about future prospects
  • TAKING COUNSEL - If your business partner is lured away
  • Company briefs
  • Copterline plans to resume flights in 2008
  • Mazeikiu, Klaipeda to be linked
  • Tallink plans to introduce own taxi fleet
  • Polish official: Lithuania needs to communicate more clearly on nuclear power plant project
  • Homegrown analysts speak out about Latvia’s dangerous economy
  • Moody's downgrades Latvian, Estonian debt
  • Swedish insurer in Baltic move
  • Poles eye Baltic gas stations
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Tricky tenant evictions
  • Company briefs
  • Skele: Dairy market needs consolidation
  • Adamkus: Poland still keen on nuclear plant
  • Estonia set to gain massive fish farm
  • Seli: merge Estonia’s port and railway
  • Delfi to launch new version of portal
  • Latvia tops list of most vulnerable countries
  • Sheraton owner to manage planned high-rise hotel in Riga
  • Statoil takes Baltic biodiesel stake
  • Overheating threat remains real
  • Company briefs
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Fight against money laundering and terrorism financing
  • State-run postal services a problem in all three Baltic states
  • Agriculture minister: Lithuania’s excessive milk purchases are harming Latvian dairies
  • Truck lines become permanent fixture in Latvia
  • Battle for OMX continues
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Creditors of former owner can become a buyer’s headache
  • Company briefs
  • Cabinet endorses more discounts for air carriers
  • MG Baltic completes takeover
  • Tallink to contest order banning smoking on ships
  • Adamkus and Estonian opposition throw new hurdles in path of atomic power plant
  • Ministers change tune on economic outlook, but are they two years too late?
  • Merger to create new Baltic carrier?
  • Borse Dubai unveils OMX bid
  • Former Hansabank trio to launch
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Tenant eviction is no walk in the park
  • Company briefs
  • For Cilija, the sky’s the limit
  • Elcoteq ships in Hungarian workers to complete order
  • Mazeikiu numbers hit the skids
  • Germany’s Douglas Holding poised to enter Baltic market
  • Is the Baltic property bubble about to burst?
  • airBaltic to open regional offices
  • TAKING COUNSEL: Free meals of ‘European champions’
  • Company briefs
  • Estonian venture firm targets Baku housing market
  • Rokiskio Suris sales jump one-third
  • German firm outbids Latvian competitors
  • Refinery prefers to buy crude on spot contracts – for now
  • Ekspress Group buys Delfi portals for 54 million euros
  • Delfi sold to Ekspress
  • Taking counsel: WiMAX licenses to be issued in Lithuania
  • Company briefs
  • Riga Airport expansion to start next spring
  • Latvia invited to join power cable project
  • Muuga port expansion scaled back
  • Latvia to undergo massive telecoms sell-off
  • Taking counsel: Aspects of the government’s anti-inflation plan
  • Company briefs
  • PKN Orlen plans modernization
  • Estonia leads in export growth
  • Alytus Textile declares bankruptcy, workers storm office
  • E.L.L. plans major investment
  • Rimi Latvia headed into black
  • Company briefs
  • Taking counsel: Employee’s prohibition on competition
  • Labor crunch delays opening of five-star hotel
  • Adamkus, Zatlers: new nuclear plant a common Baltic goal
  • Latvian dairies set to lose eastern market
  • Poles plan defense of PKN Orlen from hostile bid
  • Estonia to take EU executive to court over greenhouse gas emissions quota
  • Taking counsel: Major European companies “blacklisted”
  • Company briefs
  • Irish selected as investor for radio station
  • Muuga Port to grow corporate park
  • Report: Estonia, Europe less attractive for investment
  • Official: Gazprom mulling gas-fired plant for Kaunas
  • Natural gas prices may soar in Latvia
  • Poles a no-show at crucial meeting on building new atomic plant
  • Rimi sales soar
  • Taking counsel: What do you risk when acquiring assets?
  • Company briefs
  • Higher earnings justifies Riga Airport’s strategy
  • Russia drags out talks on Latvian sprats
  • Mazeikiu avoids fine, gets new CEO
  • A tunnel between Tallinn and Helsinki?
  • Major Finnish real estate group Realia to buy Ober-Haus
  • Latvia-Russia business ties strengthened
  • Growth slowing, but still steady
  • Textiles lead the way in retail boom – but small companies suffer
  • Company briefs
  • Taking counsel: Estonia unfurls new e-notary system
  • Latvenergo opens Estonian subsidiary
  • Hanner cuts exposure to unstable Ukrainian market
  • Kremlin envoy: Ventspils unlikely to see more oil
  • Latvian government hedges own debt risks
  • Report: Estonia overtakes Portugal in key economic indicator
  • Taking counsel: Lithuania’s Supreme Court establishes new feature in consumer contracts
  • Company briefs
  • Estonian sawmills face hard times
  • Ukio wants to build mega-center in Belarus
  • Gazprom dashes Latvia’s hopes to store more natural gas in Dobele
  • Lattelecom managers given three months to prepare 410 million euro privatization
  • Taking counsel: Has the time come for employee incentives in the Baltics?
  • Company briefs
  • Timber, furniture majors propose building new plant
  • Estonia interested in the Finnish atom
  • Lattelecom sale approved
  • PMs call for more intensive energy cooperation
  • Taking counsel: Implementing the EC directive on cross-border mergers
  • Company briefs
  • Delfi Internet portals racking up the revenues
  • Government approves 2008-11 budget strategy
  • Mazeikiu Nafta CEO resigns, PKN Orlen eyes Latvian oil
  • Real estate agency launches initial public offering
  • Tallinn, Vilnius differ on ownership stakes in nuclear power plant
  • Line of trucks on Russian border sets new record
  • Taking counsel: One step forward, two steps back?
  • Company briefs
  • Baltic Disc triples output in first year of new plant’s operations
  • Novatours sees revenues, earnings soar
  • U.S. firm buys regional paper
  • Snaige sale rumors intensify
  • Lazard ready to arrange major telecom deal
  • Law on nuclear plant down to nitty-gritty
  • Analyst: Latvian ‘show-offs’ fuel inflationary trend
  • Company briefs
  • Lithuanian cement plant curbs exports to meet domestic demand
  • Report: Snaige up for sale
  • Russian pressure relinquishes