News archive, 1999-07, en

Lost for words
Illusions of government
Private lives and public funds
One Man and His Bat
Making it in the fashion world
Stock markets: weekly report (June 28 - July 2)
Baltic stock markets experience decline for the year so far
Lithuania plans to swap bank shares
Money laundering to be hung out to dry
Summer clash of the wafer-cup Titans
Finnish presidency of the EU to influence Latvia
Summed up
IFC to assist SMEs with loan to Vilniaus Bankas
Local business degrees get jobs
Hansapank changes interest calculation
Parnu Port goes for the big ones
GDP shrinks 2 percent as Latvia battles Russian crisis
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
PLAY BY THE RULES
Countries supervised and not
Sorry, on vacation!
A cat with class
Beautiful faces spoiled by cruel liquids
Take-two for robber revolutionaries
A Tallinn artist's brush with greatness
Baltic bourses: quiet summer of '99 continues
Insurance for sale in Riga
Latvia: off-shore country?
Economists forecast decline
Parliament squabbles over budget cuts
Three's a crowd, mobile phone companies say
Summed up
Exhibition company to quit stock exchange
Finns acquire Lithuanian brewery
State supports agriculture insurance
Fortum, Uhispank buy power plant
The devil is in the details
Depositors to decide Komercbanka's fate
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
Peace runners tear through Baltics
Teenagers write their own show
No translation needed
Vilnius' Cathedral Square: the work goes on
Little activity in the Baltic markets, signs of life in Russia
Finns break Eesti Telefon's monopoly
Lithuanians earn more than statistics show
Will the real litas please stand up?
Devaluation: a crisis or no big deal?
Summed up
German company to merge Baltic insurers
Upscale hotel opened in Tallinn
State plans to hang on to Latvian bank
Vouchers good for another year
Valdemara Center open for business
Third tender prepared for power line project
Insurers choose risky business
No takers for Latvian shipping company
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
Rewarding bad behavior
Trying Ivan "The Less Terrible"
A tour of the Old Town musicians
Vilnius' what-to-do guru
Saviors and survivors of the Holocaust
LINE DANCING 'TILL DAWN: ESTONIA GOES COUNTRY
FARMERS' FOLLY
Stock markets: weekly report (July 9 - 16)
Half year earnings of the most liquid companies
Silence in Baltic markets
Summed up
Half truths and statistics
Skele: Let Komercbanka fail
'What's your age, please?'
Estonian fish in high demand in Europe
Independence planned for Klaipeda Nafta company
Time to bring in the Germans…again
KLASCO stumbles out of the gate
Klaipeda FEZ: almost ready to roll
Estonia drags its feet on WTO laws
LAND bank's license cancelled
Narrowing Lithuania's regeneration gap
Telephone monopoly fights back
Energy company receives report card
Power company loses its head
Pork shortage threatens meatpacking firms
Farmers' protest falls on deaf ears
Estonia reforms social tax system
Off the Wire
Estonia could face prison crisis
Zvarde: the town that time forgot
Doing away with Baltic borders
Latvia's forgotten few
Suicide leads prosecutors to string of murder cases
Arafat's visit stirs interest, controversy
Any lives left for Vagnorius?
President wants more for defense
France to return Latvian Embassy
Thou shall not pass judgment...on the language law you have not read ...on the language law you have not read
Baltics' role in drug trafficking on the rise
Estonians in trouble for drug-running in Spain
Documenting a trip around the world
Visa-free travel causes problems for Estonians
Parnu man in court on deportation charges
No political prisoners in Lithuania
Savisaar could face no-confidence vote
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
Vike-Freiberga returns language law
Estonia's master maestro
The myths of Mazsalaca
Scouts lead way in return of Estonian countrymen
Tanning and business plans at the beach
COULDN'T BE WORSE
Stock markets: weekly report (July 2 - 9)
Summed up
Airport's stock capital boosted
MicroLink buys Internet company
All Grindex's shares acquired at auction
Riga gets housing villages
Latvijas Gaze's shares could be sold abroad in November
Insurers find white knight investor
Textile industry manages to adjust
Lithuania cuts agriculture funding
Talks continue on power station privatization
Skele to give up Ave Lat management
EU to introduce new trading system
Butinge terminal's first customer
Sale of shipping company: Take two
Hansabank opens office in Lithuania
Swedes, Estonians buckle up together
Off the Wire
Parliament stalls on statues
Language law irks Russians, foreigners
Spread of HIV increases
Lithuania's favorite healthcare angels
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

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