News archive, 1999-08, en

More power to party members
Tarzan: King of Lithuanian forest
Middle Eastern masseur
Sweat it out the Latvian way
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Stock markets: weekly report (August 13 - 20)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
Banks center of attraction on Baltic bourses
Summed up
Danes threaten to stop investment
Latvijas Balzams distillery gets loans
Lithuanian economy dreads deflation
Coping with the Russian crisis
Litas devaluation out of question
Lat will not be devalued
Dairy's export license suspended
No end to energy debt settlement
SEB happy with Unibanka's results
Oil deal coming along
Latvian Shipping Company's privatization terms settled
Central bank might sell its stake in Optiva Bank
Off the Wire
Latvian Baltbat troops ready for Bosnia
Latvia's tuberculosis incubators
Land reform drones on despite funding woes
Passions boil over land in Zverynas
Lithuania's TV monument
Possible changes in media law cause stir
Corruption and drugs prove profitable for the mafia
Report highlights dark side of transition
Finnish expert rejects explosion theory
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
Bus drivers demand pay increase, threaten to strike
Estonia abolishes corporate income tax
RIGHTING WRONGS
Solar madness casts a shadow over the Baltics
Piecing together an identity
A hostel that rides the Estonian rails
Education in Latvia - a disaster!
Stock markets: weekly report (August 6 - 13)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
Prices up on the Baltic bourses
Summed up
Fuel price increase affects taxi companies
IMF evaluation interpreted
Lietuvos Telekomas gets giant loan
Estonia to merge TV and radio
Daugavpils industry in trouble
Internet banking on the increase
Central bank puts lid on Litimpeks' activities
No transition period for tax-free trade
Rigas Komercbanka epic comes to an end
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
When will Themis' eyes open?
Virtual friends become a real couple
Texas-sized enthusiasm
Jazz on the sunshine coast
Lithuanian monument gets a make-over
Stock markets: weekly report (July 30 - August 6)
Is the storm in Russia over?
Lithuania still leadsin Baltic markets
Summed up
Analysts revise forecast for Estonian economy
The future of Komercbanka uncertain
Litimpeks offers plan to solve liquidity problems
Mushroom exporters face tougher checks
How much is that Teletubby?
First closed pension fund founded
Brewery attracts investor
Estonia to construct the biggest arena in the Baltics
Latvian Shipping Company privatization postponed
Off the Wire
Deaths rise among working class
Lithuanian doctors: competent but poor
Fires make this summer a hot one in Latvia
Moscow intrigues mean business as usual for Baltics
Lithuania's "iron man" announces new challenge
Lithuania battles effects of scorching summer
Norway seizes Estonian ship
Two Russian citizens go on hunger strike
Banker may lose job over politics
New developments in language law
Balloons fly over the center of Europe
How mean are the streets of Riga?
Footloose on the streets
Sunning and swimming on the spit
Fallen between the cracks
Pension system under attack
Port board chairman sacked
Lithuanian hospitality
What to know before going to Lithuania
Building bridges
Military troops repair rotting orphanage
Time traveling in Cesis
Estonian artists eke out a living
President of all the Russias?
BEHAVING MORALLY
Vilnius in the lead among Baltic bourses
Summed up
Tallinn nightclub in trouble
Deficit and pension reform
Economy depends on political will
Trade with Russia on the rise
Czechs interested in Latvian bank
U.S. company becomes new distributor
Power bridge project on the cards again
Latvian banks overcome crisis
Hansapank posts profit
Latvia cuts budget
Central bank to approve new bank merger
Off the Wire
Estonian residents divided on NATO
Victims' relatives demand compensation
Sea border treaty near completion
Estonians root for Robertson
Second time around
Latvian Greens' status a mystery
Vilnius: stop 'politicizing' of Butinge
Lithuanian lasers conquer world markets
Careful welcome for Belarusian dissident
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
NATO general praises Latvia, Lithuania
Cook serenades Estonia on recent visit
Is Latvia ready for refugees?
Ex-NKVD officer gets four years in prison

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