News archive, 1999-01, en

Messages sent and received
Wall to walls
Rebel without a pause
Flaming across the sea
Flamenco fever heats up Estonian women
A look at Lithuania's 'little worlds'
A century and more under the round roof
Stock markets: weekly report (January 18 - 22)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
Infrastructure companies should save markets?
Free trade versus protectionism
Baltic stock exchanges agree to cooperate
Estonia's tax man cometh
Lainbanka close to bankruptcy
Latvian privatization drags on
Reduced prices, amazed Estonians
Uhispank changes Tallinn's skyline
LUKoil turns up heat on Lithuanian company
Summed up
American investors to save EVEA bank
Bank deal should smooth Russian trade
Latvian truckers need more permits
Parliament rejects bill on pork quotas
Energy company gets tough: Debtors warned, strategic investor sought
Eesti Telekom priced and ready
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
Successful year for the military
CROOKED AND COMPROMISED
MONEY AND PATRIOTISM
Lithuanians ride the road of EU education
The draw of Lithuania
The dairy cow between the lines
The Bible bug for the year 2000
Stock markets: weekly report (January 11 - 15)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
No clear trend in the Baltic stock markets
Lithuania, EU to discuss import duties
New air in Vilnius
Baltcom GSM accused of unfair competition
Sillamae declared free economic zone
Summed up
EVEA needs investor to survive
Danes raise stakes in mobile market
Lattelekom under pressure
IMF figures alarming
Eesti Telekom boosts stock market activity
Price of pork still hogs the spotlight
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
Repaying a debt of gratitude
WRONG THIS TIME
Pilots rising high above the past
Pocket traveler
Pocket traveler
Samogitians find their home in Lithuania
When the boys came home
Stock markets: weekly report (January 4 - 8)
Dealers still celebrate
Unibanka to go public
Lithuania's GDP inches up
Oil company to rework Russian contracts
SEB president to visit Vilnius
Unibanka, Statoil team up
Smart marketing, colorful package
Central bank to consider Vilniaus Bankas' bid
Butinge ties up loose ends
Summer resort weathers the winter freeze
Cars as a measure of country's progress
Eesti Telekom shares on sale
Mercury blesses a new Tallinn hotel
Summed up
Oil could run dry at Estonian ports
Parex bank eyes southern neighboring market
Hansapank storms into Lithuania
Tariffs on EU food imports to go up
Brokers lick their wounds, brace themselves for 1999
Euro bandwagon off to slow start in Lithuania
Lattelekom hears static on the line
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
A continent in hibernation?
Free markets 101
Clowning around Red Square
On the grapevine
Bring on the cheese
Tallinn's expatriate social architect
Thumbs up for Lithuanian Fuel privatization
When buying Lithuanian, look for the best
Revamped military plant ready for bright future
Summed up
Shipping company's privatization to start
New tax to trim foreign investments
Statoil buys stations from competitor
Baltic central banks ante up for euro
Vilniaus Bankas starts new year on right foot
Latvia trims fat from pork imports
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

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