News archive, 1999-03, en

A disaster that did not happen
DUCKING
OPTING FOR STABILITY
Estonia's craving for crime
Breaking into Estonia
Sailing around the world
Belarus: a pensioner's paradise
Swinging, swatting and sunning
Latvia's frequent flyer
Stock markets: weekly report (March 15 - 19)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
Baltic markets trend together
Alternative to Gazprom
Four firms eager to handle Tallinn waste
Estonia offers wide investment opportunities
Estonia, Finland still at odds over shipping
EBRD to take new bank
Finns deny textile boycott
Management favors EU membership
Summed up
Latvian customs procedure protested
Latvia hikes cigarette tariff
Latvia may have fewer banks
The waiting game goes on
Vilniaus Bankas calls off marriage to Hermis
Official resigns after drunk driving incident
Russian military in no hurry to leave
Moscow congregation wins registration
Once they were children
Police may have found missing priest's body
St. Paddy's Day, Vilnius-style
They're in the money
Silava investigation nears conclusion
Papers maneuver in slander case
Government-to-be dishes out promises
Second time lucky for Mart Laar?
Off the Wire
Winners, losers of Estonian democracy
If it is not milk what is it?
Jewish community aghast at intelligence official's comment on synagogue bombing
Estonia's U.S. backers
All sights set on NATO
EU expansion in danger?
Brussels gets tough on Ignalina
Laar gets a second chance at the top
Local language laws vs. international obligations
BRUSSELS THE BULLY
Come to where the neurosis is
Doctor of patience
The freedom to blow Lithuania's horn
Feminism with a Latvian twist
Stock markets: weekly report (March 6 - 12)
Russian stocks close strong week up 14 percent
Estonia still outspoken leader
Social tax collection lower than expected
Estonian unemployment rate soars
Nipping a new crisis in the bud
Ammunition factory to open
Electricity to cost more in Estonia
Summed up
Trade war: Latvia strikes back
Estonian Air suffers from air strike
Depositors can bank on 500 lats, but no more
Wanted: An army of white knights
Catch-22 on tobacco tariffs
The redcoats are comingÉmaybe
Radioactive waste found in Riga
Anti-Lithuanian signs in Warsaw
Centrist deputy up for Tallinn mayor's office
Stuck in the middle
Russians decry Legionnaires march
People's Party, Fatherland to mark March 16
Through Western eyes: a look at coverage
Center Party down but not out
Visaginas mayor hangs himself
Soviet-style snacking in Vilnius
Vagnorius plans to stick around awhile
Kristopans backs off ministers' wage increase
Jewish community goes to court over school
Appeal filed in Kallas case
Environmental standards will take time in Estonia
Giving the girls a chance
Off the Wire
Missing the Cold War?
A chasm widens at Ignalina
Investigating Nazi and Soviet crimes
Former Latvian resident accused as Soviet spy
Report details nationalism, racism
Crisis in Brussels hurts EU expansion
Estonia's golden boy back on top
Legionnaires march divides Latvia
Happy birthday, LithuaniaÉ again
NORMAL IN ESTONIA
Threading through Estonia's borderlands
The bitter pill of war
Stalin's accidental gift to Latvia
Lithuanians kick their legs and click their heels
The African beat that beckons
Stock markets: weekly report (February 26 - March 5)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
Lithuanian vendors strike again
Pollution tax exemption available to more firms
Every fifth skier wears Estonian skis
Summed up
Vilnius remains rigid on customs
Shaping Estonia as a transit corridor
Williams will stay in Lithuania
Latvenergo back on government's agenda
Estonian businesses fear Savisaar government
Tallinn city to get new leaders
No cooperation for Estonian leftists
Russian party squeaks into Parliament
Trouble in paradise?
Why the polls were wrong this election
Rules blamed for low expat vote
Nearly half of Estonian voters stay home
No more wilted tulips
Western Lithuania braces for floods
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
Malk: no regrets about stint at Foreign Ministry
Kallas acquitted in $10 million case
Off the Wire
Poll details declining support for Conservatives
Pressure on Vagnorius builds: Opposition party demands resignation
Sitting pretty in Latvia's hottest seat
Komercbanka shuts its doors
Savisaar scores bittersweet victory: Centrists win election, not likely to form government
About us and them
RUNNING ON EMPTY
Believing in a button
Far from an orphan
Stirring up the Milky Way
Racing on thin ice
Ignalina: the closest place to Switzerland
Latvians alight on dark continent
Stock markets: weekly report (February 20 - 25)
Baltic banks do not have liquidity problems yet
Baltic markets: back to sluggish activity
Phone tariff increase not justified
WTO should be top Lithuanian priority
Russian steel embargo hurts Lithuania
Norwegians buy ship repair yard
Cloning's nothing new in Lithuania
Bluetooth coming to the Baltics, but not prematurely
Belarus prepares payment plan
Airline to keep national carrier status
Lithuanian oil concern in the red in 1998
Filling empty Jurmala hotels
Summed up
Latvian Parliament passes 1999 budget
Lithuania looks to Kuwait for oil supply
PowerBridge's ability questioned
Uhispank pulls the plug on TV station
Latvia ready for extreme measures: Government may slap price floor on Lithuanian eggs
Lithuania, Williams delay signing deal
Court dismisses Banka Baltija liquidator
Provisioning pulls down Hansapank's bottom line
Celebrating Lithuania's patron saint
How to put your best feud forward
On the hustings in the Estonian capital
Making sense of it all
Lithuania's refugees: do something, but what?
Prosecutor dismisses Wiesenthal call to arms
Poles vow to keep border station
Lithuanians less keen on EU membership
Cocaine use on the rise
Teen in hiding after finding heroin on streets
Drug criminals becoming jacks of all trades
Storm blows through Baltic states
Media fuels boycott of Finnish goods: Action connected to shipping row between Tallinn, Helsinki
Off the Wire
EU steps up prep talks for Latvia and Lithuania
EU issues ultimatum on Ignalina
Leftist party organizes new March 3 rally
Parliament to consider calling off March 16 rally
Latvia donates $25,000 for Holocaust research
Gulbene tragedy spotlights death penalty
Manage to stay awake?
Kallas trial to end just shy of elections
Vagnorius considers quitting

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