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Unlike the Poles, Jews and Russians, Klaipeda’s La...
Unlike the Poles, Jews and Russians, Klaipeda’s Latvians are forgotten
Sixty-seven-year-old Gotfridas Tapinas, the agile and spry chairman of the Latvian association Atputa in the Klaipeda region, today is a whole lot more than simply vexed. “I got this impression that the local Latvians are not of interest to Lithuania, nor to Klaipeda or Latvian authorities,” he claimed, handing me a bunch of papers, some handwritten. “It perplexes me that the local bus drivers driving from Klaipeda to Latvia are forbidden, due to some EU regulation, to pick up non-Lithuanian passengers. Certainly, the Latvians are mostly ill-effected by the ban. Although w...  Full story...
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 Apr 25, 2013 - Conservatives created lots of baloney in seamen-re...
Conservatives created lots of baloney in seamen-related legislation
Hardly anyone knows better Lithuanian mariners and their issues than 64-year-old Petras Bekeza,  the chairman of the Lithuanian Seamen’s Union (LSU). Having spent years in the smooth and choppy waters in far-away seas, as well as nearby waters, he now takes care of his peers and a younger generation of seafarers in his Klaipeda office. To learn more of Lithuanian seamen’s lives...
 Apr 17, 2013 - Echoing the classics in her new work...
Echoing the classics in her new work
March 8 saw the presence of Scottish singing sensation Maggie Reilly, and her Troubadour band in Ventspils for a one night concert that had the locals singing along as she serenaded the sold-out crowd through some 30 years of her musical heritage. Ms. Reilly has produced and released some 10 albums in her singing career as a solo artist, and preformed with the likes of Cindy Lauper, George Harr...
 Apr 03, 2013 - Keeping financial markets honest...
Keeping financial markets honest
When the financial market works smoothly, nobody pays attention. When things go wrong, such as when a bank collapses, all eyes turn on the financial market regulator. This role in Latvia is done by the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC). Its chairman is Kristaps Zakulis, in office for one year. He took over as chief after Latvia’s last bank failure – the collapse of Vlad...
 Apr 03, 2013 - Lithuania looking ahead...
Lithuania looking ahead
Dr. Ramunas Vilpisauskas, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, comments on the forthcoming half-year of Lithuania’s EU Presidency, which is to start on July 1, and other related issues on the agenda in Vilnius. What will be the priority issues put on the agenda in the frames of Lithuania’s EU Presidency? There will prob...
 Mar 20, 2013 - Bringing Latvian education out of the medieval age...
Bringing Latvian education out of the medieval age
A social and economic anthropologist, a professor at SSE Riga and now minister of the Education and Science Ministry, Roberts Kilis finds himself at the forefront of leading the reform of Latvia’s higher education system. But changing the status quo of this large organization, with its established and well-entrenched interest groups, hasn’t been easy. This is even considering that m...
 Mar 06, 2013 - Prime Minister who still picks up the phone himsel...
Prime Minister who still picks up the phone himself
Social Democrat Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius perhaps could not have gotten off to a better start in his new office. His public support ratings in the polls have soared since the swearing-in ceremony, even eclipsing those of the Black Magnolia, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite. Butkevicius has been able to do what perhaps very few Lithuanian PMs have managed to do in contemporary L...
 Feb 20, 2013 - After 20 years Lithuanians are more inquisitive an...
After 20 years Lithuanians are more inquisitive and self-confident
Raised and educated in the United States, in Washington, DC, Darius Suziedelis, then in his 20s, decided, at the dawning of Lithuanian Independence back in the 1990s, to pack his bags and hopped onto a Baltic-bound plane. Though he had been in Lithuania twice during Soviet times, the 9-hour journey gave him much time to think of possibly making a change, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, in the ...
 Feb 06, 2013 - Sexagenarian with a 27-year-old’s exuberance and s...
Sexagenarian with a 27-year-old’s exuberance and sage’s wisdom
The year 2013 has been declared by the Lithuanian government to be the ‘Year of Wellness,’ but to some people, like 60-year-old Dainius Kepenis, founder of Palanga Health School, health expert of the Parliament’s Health Committee and president of Lithuania’s Health Union, that means a whole lot more than just the declaration. Known as an outspoken and avid zealot of a he...



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