News archive, 2000-08, en

Baltics to cash in on reality-based TV craze
Of Drugs and Bureaucrats
Toward a division of powers
Baltic Index shoots up due to SEB's offer
Baltic bourses: trend changed?
Extra money for vacations
Headache over Yachting Center
Lithuania plans to join WTO in October
Seeking immediate gratification over Lattelekom
Eesti Telefon changes tariffs
MicroLink nudges toward IPO
Swedish IT in the Baltic region
Eesti Energia leaders sign NRG deal
SEB tries to create Baltic banking leader
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
Museum celebrates bonding by beekeeping
GOOD HAPPENS
Telecoms push Baltic Index down
Explosion chills Rimi Baltija plans for new store
Six investors put 72 million in MicroLink
Bank of Latvia allows Pirma Banka to reduce share capital
Latvia likely to file counterclaim against Tilts
Meeting Lenin and other celebrities
Supermarket lays claim to generic name
Ambassador tells Lithuania to up exports to USA
How to cure a backache
Callers frustrated with new phone system
Telecom industry pushes forward
Off the wire
Western European demand leads Baltics to recovery
Casinos to register players in the future
German-Russian firm eyes Lithuanian thermal power plant
Government backs down on taxing bank accounts
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
Lithuania's pagans try to turn back the clock
HIGH-HEELED SHOES AND MAKEUP
Baltic Index: Estonian shares up, no support from Lithuania
Talks on sale of Parnu Soojus nearing end
Letts spend fewer lats abroad; men travel more
Lithuanian consumer prices went down in July
Wireless electronics manufacturing expands
Latvia's Ventspils Nafta not to pay dividends for 1999 operations
Estonian RRgroup to announce dance partner
Home sweet homebrew: The secret ale of Cizas
Off the wire
Linstow buys into Reval group hotels
Border pact will open boat route to Russia
Step back to bicycles?
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
The Bottom line
Knocking on the fortress door
NEGATIVE INPUT, POSITIVE POTENTIAL
Baltic Index up on euro drop
Mazeikiu Nafta gets crude
Lithuanian supermarket operator to expand in Latvia
Latvia hopes to see Icelandic tourists and their wallets
For government Web sites in Estonia, English can wait
Latvia seeks mobile operator in GSM 1800 frequency
State energy monopoly stays, for now
Off the wire
Linux gaining ground in Estonia
Estonia eyes U.S. computers
Klaipeda port to get $57 million face lift
Delfi seen as leading Internet portal in Estonia
Lithuanian pavilion a big hit at EXPO 2000
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'
Kadriorg Palace opens after renovation
MAYBE IT WAS A DREAM
Earnings of the Baltic List companies
Most Latvian blue-chips down for the week
Earnings postings bring life to Tallinn exchange
Baltic Index sinks again
Gutta juice incurs loss due to provisions
Estonia's Eesti Post to hike postal rates
Maseko to send first shipment of fish preserves to China
Mazeiku Nafta posts LTL 36 million loss
Lithuanian government to look into possible gas tender violations
Minister vows to dismiss LPA official detained over bribery
Singaporeans invest more in Lithuanian textile firm
Kaunas talks tough in negotiations with France's Dalkia
Lax sex shop regulations cause for concern?
Summed up
Privatization not good for forestry
EBRD to decide on 32.5 million euro investment
Thousands protest NRG deal
Vilnius authorities approve heating sector overhaul tender
Lithuanian state to continue subsidies for political parties
'Superspy' seeks political asylum in Sweden
Lithuanian farmers won't shut down border - yet
U.S. millionaire to investigate Estonia ferry disaster site
President honored by Wallenberg group
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

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