OUTLOOK
Latvia tops Baltic Olympic battle
TBT#620 [ Aug 27, 2008 ]
RIGA - Eight competitors tested their pedals, wait...
"Harding Landing" – the book
TBT#619 [ Aug 20, 2008 ]
TALLINN - As a Black Briton I can say this – in ma...
Night club scams on the rise
TBT#618 [ Aug 13, 2008 ]
RIGA - Last May Toni Lahtinen walked into a night ...
A country within a country
TBT#617 [ Aug 06, 2008 ]
Not a single prisoner or prison guard is going to ...
Baltic athletes going for the gold and euros
TBT#616 [ Jul 30, 2008 ]
With the 2008 Olympic Games just a week away, few ...
Lithuanian roads most dangerous in Europe
TBT#615 [ Jul 23, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - Lithuania is the most dangerous place to...
The great language myth
TBT#614 [ Jul 16, 2008 ]
TALLINN-VILNIUS - Estonians can be strange people....
Fighting to preserve a nation’s heritage
TBT#613 [ Jul 09, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - When Tobias Jasetas was a small child, h...
Getting back to roots
TBT#612 [ Jul 02, 2008 ]
RIGA - I must have heard the story a hundred times...
Swedish Empire strikes back
TBT#611 [ Jun 18, 2008 ]
TALLINN - The following list may be familiar to an...
Saving Estonia’s abused children
TBT#610 [ Jun 11, 2008 ]
TALLINN - Kadi Tuusk lived in a poor suburb on the...
Brits and Irish behaving badly… again
TBT#609 [ Jun 04, 2008 ]
RIGA - In May 2008, a Briton aged 32 was fined for...
Go forth and multiply
TBT#608 [ May 28, 2008 ]
TALLINN - In his annual address to the nation, Est...
Bigotry and denial
TBT#607 [ May 21, 2008 ]
A man, let’s call him Joe Bloggs, told The Baltic ...
Ice hockey as a way of life
TBT#606 [ May 14, 2008 ]
Now that Latvia has been ousted from the World Ice...
Searching for saunas? Don’t sweat it
TBT#604 [ May 01, 2008 ]
Though sitting naked in a hot, steamy room and wha...
Marriage, Estonian style
TBT#603 [ Apr 23, 2008 ]
TALLINN - You meet that perfect person. You fall i...
Sinking in a quagmire of debt
TBT#602 [ Apr 16, 2008 ]
RIGA - Gints, a project manager for a small compan...
Quiet genius who brought the East
TBT#601 [ Apr 09, 2008 ]
TALLINN - The Koran is undoubtedly one of the most...
It’s spring, it’s Cinema Spring!
TBT#600 [ Apr 03, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - Woody Allen, Alexandr Sokurov, Andrzej W...
The Baltic's suffering teachers
TBT#599 [ Mar 26, 2008 ]
Life is no picnic for Baltic schoolteachers. The s...
Mystery of the three-handed saint
TBT#597 [ Mar 12, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - One of the must-see stops on any t...
An adventure in venture capital
TBT#596 [ Mar 05, 2008 ]
RIGA - Venture capital will be the next big thing ...
Speed dating takes Latvia by storm
TBT#595 [ Feb 27, 2008 ]
RIGA - Guys and gals get ready – speed dating has ...
A success for Lithuanian movie-making
TBT#594 [ Feb 20, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - Breaking box office records in Lit...
Nonfat, triple shot, two pump, Estonian latte, palun
TBT#593 [ Feb 13, 2008 ]
TALLINN - Throughout the modern world, two common ...
Oh no, it’s Osho: a villain speaks from beyond the grave
TBT#592 [ Feb 06, 2008 ]
RIGA - It is hard to walk into a bookstore in Riga...
A close-up look at ‘The New Cold War’
TBT#591 [ Jan 30, 2008 ]
TALLINN - “Ladies and gentlemen, the recent talk a...
‘Februhairy’ soon to grow on Estonia
TBT#590 [ Jan 23, 2008 ]
TALLINN - The moustache has had a long and conflic...
Turbulent times for Latvian credit
TBT#589 [ Jan 16, 2008 ]
RIGA - The Latvian credit market is at a crucial t...
Making the Vilnius Jewish Library a reality
TBT#588 [ Jan 09, 2008 ]
TALLINN - I caught up with Wyman Brent at a hostel...
A sneak preview of next year’s headlines
TBT#587 [ Dec 19, 2007 ]
We at The Baltic Times have always prided ourselve...
Dark times ahead for the ‘Castle of Light?’
TBT#586 [ Dec 12, 2007 ]
RIGA - The 66 meter high structure will tower abov...
A look at life on a Lithuanian pension
TBT#584 [ Nov 28, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - In a heavy winter coat and thick black b...
Estonia: the days of cheap thrills are over
TBT#583 [ Nov 21, 2007 ]
TALLINN - It was during a recent weekend trip to B...
Carrying the flag of avant-garde art
TBT#582 [ Nov 14, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - “It shouldn’t be a museum, that is, ... ...
Unraveling the mysteries of St. Martin’s Day
TBT#581 [ Nov 07, 2007 ]
RIGA - Anyone who spends a bit of time in the Balt...
The karate master turned storyteller
TBT#579 [ Oct 24, 2007 ]
RIGA - Lancashire native Leigh Smith first travele...
Sacrificing privacy for national security
TBT#578 [ Oct 17, 2007 ]
In a matter of weeks, the details of every phone c...
Wages and inflation – Latvia’s economic vicious circle
TBT#576 [ Oct 03, 2007 ]
RIGA - The Latvian government is stuck between a r...
Lasnamae’s autumnal image problem
TBT#575 [ Sep 26, 2007 ]
TALLINN - Of all of Lasnamae’s curses, the worst i...
Vilnius’ new home for performance art
TBT#574 [ Sep 19, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - Behind the gates of a defunct, Soviet-er...
To serve, protect and survive the boredom
TBT#573 [ Sep 12, 2007 ]
RIGA - It was about 9 p.m. when I approached the i...
Across the Russian border, looking back
TBT#572 [ Sep 05, 2007 ]
TALLINN - I packed two bottles of Vana Tallinn liq...
Can a music festival really bridge borders?
TBT#571 [ Aug 29, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - Among a sea of colorful tents, several n...
Performing for pennies: the life of a busker
TBT#570 [ Aug 22, 2007 ]
RIGA - Riga’s Old Town is full of music these da...
Is Estonia silencing its opponents?
TBT#569 [ Aug 15, 2007 ]
TALLINN - From the outset, it should be said that ...
‘Capital of Culture’ ...and construction
TBT#568 [ Aug 08, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - To the sound of drills buzzing and...
Stopping sex ‘terrorism’ in Riga
TBT#567 [ Aug 01, 2007 ]
RIGA - To anyone walking the streets of Riga’s Old...
Tourists checking out of Tallinn
TBT#566 [ Jul 25, 2007 ]
TALLINN - “When I arrived in Tallinn in August 200...
The line between fans and hooligans
TBT#565 [ Jul 18, 2007 ]
By now everyone in Lithuania knows the infamous ta...
Latvian cyclists reach critical mass
TBT#564 [ Jul 11, 2007 ]
RIGA - Shortly after buying a bike and joining the...
A hitchhiker’s guide to Saaremaa
TBT#563 [ Jul 04, 2007 ]
SAAREMAA - “When we saw your tent, we thought, ‘So...
Two hundred years after the ‘peace’ of Tilsit
TBT#562 [ Jun 27, 2007 ]
KLAIPEDA - Prussia’s Frederick Wilhelm III and his...
A Midsummer night’s dream
TBT#561 [ Jun 20, 2007 ]
RIGA - Quests for magical fern blossoms and heal...
Estonia kicks the habit
TBT#560 [ Jun 13, 2007 ]
TALLINN - Estonia is quitting cigarettes cold turk...
Coping with the heat, Lithuanian style
TBT#559 [ Jun 06, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - They say that Lithuanians like to talk a...
The changing face of Andrejsala
TBT#558 [ May 30, 2007 ]
RIGA - While all cities develop in different ways,...
Eurovision and the politics of identity
TBT#557 [ May 23, 2007 ]
For most of us, Eurovision is synonymous with flas...
Neighborhood activism reborn in Tartu
TBT#556 [ May 16, 2007 ]
TARTU - On Saturday, May 19, the Karlova district ...
A place to play Dirty Harry, Soviet style
TBT#555 [ May 09, 2007 ]
RIGA - Riga offers quite a few interesting nooks a...
Seeing the forest for the trees in Klaipeda
TBT#554 [ May 02, 2007 ]
KLAIPEDA - My friends and I have always enjoyed th...
A very French spring comes to Riga
TBT#553 [ Apr 25, 2007 ]
RIGA - It’s impossible to walk more than a few blo...
Staffing woes wound the Baltic tiger
TBT#552 [ Apr 18, 2007 ]
TALLINN - “If we had known then what we know now, ...
England meets Latvia on the airwaves
TBT#551 [ Apr 04, 2007 ]
RIGA - There’s no use denying it. For whatever rea...
Linguistic enlightenment on your bus ride
TBT#550 [ Mar 28, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - Anyone who takes public transportation i...
Estonia addresses its redneck problem
TBT#549 [ Mar 21, 2007 ]
TALLINN - “They are all idiots,” sings Vaiko Eplik...
Best-loved writer Gone with the Dreams
TBT#548 [ Mar 14, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - Jurga Ivanauskaite is a unique figure in...
Spreading the good word on green food
TBT#547 [ Mar 07, 2007 ]
RIGA - Latvians take their food very seriously. Th...
Estonians enjoy Slovakia on the cheap
TBT#546 [ Feb 28, 2007 ]
SLOVAKIA - It’s a worrying indicator of culinary q...
The Curonian Spit: infinite change beneath a mask of timelessness
TBT#545 [ Feb 21, 2007 ]
NIDA - The 98-kilometer long Curonian Spit – a str...
Baltic schools behind in computer use
TBT#544 [ Feb 14, 2007 ]
RIGA - The use of computer technology and the Inte...
Singing Revolution takes the big screen
TBT#543 [ Feb 07, 2007 ]
TALLINN - “This is a story that has never been tol...
Tallinn rediscovers Karp legacy
TBT#542 [ Jan 31, 2007 ]
TALLINN - There’s nothing neutral about Raine Karp...
Capturing Vilnius in 45 seconds
TBT#541 [ Jan 24, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - What does a woman playing the cello on P...
Freak weather throws Balts into confusion
TBT#540 [ Jan 17, 2007 ]
RIGA - This winter has seen the highest temperatur...
A lifetime of art, in reflection
TBT#539 [ Jan 10, 2007 ]
TALLINN - I arranged to meet Juri Arrak at Kumu, T...
Looking back on an eventful, record-breaking year
TBT#538 [ Dec 20, 2006 ]
RIGA - News in the Baltic states is a curious thin...
Film school welcomes fresh talent
TBT#536 [ Dec 06, 2006 ]
TALLINN - A bottle of vodka was all it took. Four ...
The Russian soul, detached
TBT#535 [ Nov 29, 2006 ]
KALININGRAD - Finding reliable background informat...
What lies beneath
TBT#533 [ Nov 15, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Boris Dubovik possesses a most interesti...
Children above the earth
TBT#532 [ Nov 08, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Are there any bright days for a child wi...
Eustace Tilly on the Baltics
TBT#531 [ Nov 01, 2006 ]
The New Yorker has been well-known for its witty, ...
Welcome to the company choir
TBT#530 [ Oct 25, 2006 ]
TALLINN - At any given song festival, the list of ...
The Staprans affair
TBT#529 [ Oct 18, 2006 ]
RIGA - At 11 a.m. on Oct. 11, Raimonds Staprans ar...
Snapshots of Las Vegas
TBT#528 [ Oct 11, 2006 ]
RIGA - In November 1983, Ulvis Alberts, a photogra...
Don’t blow this house down
TBT#527 [ Oct 04, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Rene Valner is building a house from str...
Iraqi filmmaker’s dreams come to Riga
TBT#526 [ Sep 27, 2006 ]
RIGA - In 2003, only a few short months after the ...
Sounds of the Underground
TBT#525 [ Sep 20, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - It’s 2:00 a.m. in a small bar outside th...
No man is an island
TBT#524 [ Sep 13, 2006 ]
RIGA - Edmunds Zalite lives on a raft in the Dauga...
Young acrobats of Tallinn
TBT#523 [ Sep 07, 2006 ]
TALLINN - In Estonia, “circus” is still a dirty wo...
The Ryanair experience
TBT#522 [ Aug 30, 2006 ]
RIGA,STOCKHOLM - A few weeks ago, a friend who had...
Holding onto the Curonian Spit
TBT#521 [ Aug 23, 2006 ]
NERINGA, Lithuania - For the past three-and-a-half...
Journeymen find their way to Estonia
TBT#520 [ Aug 16, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Christian and Matthais each have one set...
Waiting for the Good News
TBT#519 [ Aug 09, 2006 ]
RIGA - A Sunday service at the Good News Christian...
Welcome to the New Generation
TBT#518 [ Aug 02, 2006 ]
RIGA - New Generation, a 5,000-strong non-denomina...
In search of ‘Soviet Retro’ in Estonia
TBT#517 [ Jul 26, 2006 ]
TALLINN - There’s a lucrative profession in the fa...
Lithuanian designers fight for good taste
TBT#515 [ Jul 12, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Surrounded by swirling mosquitoes, ten ...
Estonians await return of the lodi
TBT#514 [ Jul 05, 2006 ]
TARTU - On a warm summer’s day the fresh-cut plank...
Scenes from the White Nights
TBT#513 [ Jun 28, 2006 ]
ST. PETERSBURG - Peter the Great built St. Petersb...
Pardon, could you tell us about your plaque?
TBT#512 [ Jun 14, 2006 ]
At least one building on every block of central Ri...
How green is Tallinn?
TBT#511 [ Jun 07, 2006 ]
TALLINN - In the calm woods of suburban Tallinn th...
Backlots and dreams in Tukums
TBT#510 [ May 31, 2006 ]
TUKUMS, Latvia - There are a few disappointing thi...
Toilets and outhouses: a Baltic epic
TBT#509 [ May 24, 2006 ]
It could be argued that the history of mankind is ...
Western filmmakers discover Lithuania
TBT#508 [ May 17, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Refugees dressed in rags carrying bulky...
Tuur, Estonia’s modern Bach
TBT#507 [ May 10, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Erkki-Sven Tuur is Estonia’s second most...
Jeweler dazzles the streets of Vilnius
TBT#506 [ May 03, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Every year you can see Svajunas Udrys in...
Priit Parn, Estonia’s animator-general
TBT#505 [ Apr 26, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Priit Parn spent some hours at the cinem...
Chernobyl, looking back
TBT#504 [ Apr 19, 2006 ]
RIGA - On May 13, 1986, Andris Abramenkovs and hun...
Bezmozgis on the Jewish question
TBT#503 [ Apr 12, 2006 ]
RIGA - In the first piece that makes up David Bezm...
Lithuanian theater’s very own black prince
TBT#502 [ Apr 05, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - On March 12, Oskaras Korsunovas, 37, the...
Starry-eyed in Texas
TBT#501 [ Mar 29, 2006 ]
AUSTIN - Like thousands of others, 22-year-old Lat...
Under American eyes
TBT#500 [ Mar 22, 2006 ]
The world is a big place, and the population of th...
Maverick animator keeps on moving
TBT#499 [ Mar 15, 2006 ]
RIGA - At 41, Signe Baumane seems comfortable with...
Last bastions of paganism tell all
TBT#498 [ Mar 08, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Christianity took a long time to get to ...
Foreign farmers make home on Estonian ranges
TBT#497 [ Mar 01, 2006 ]
TALLINN - It’s late morning on the Vacca dairy far...
Riga Synagogue sees new life ahead
TBT#496 [ Feb 22, 2006 ]
RIGA - In 1904, a small group of wealthy Jewish m...
Psychology brings new light to Lithuanian prison
TBT#495 [ Feb 15, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Andrej, a 28-year-old inmate of Vilnius ...
Baltic students storm Britain
TBT#494 [ Feb 08, 2006 ]
LUTON - Welcome to Luton, a former center of the ...
Rescuing Lithuania’s ancient relics
TBT#493 [ Feb 01, 2006 ]
Vilnius - Inside the door of the Polychrome Sculpt...
Small-screen theater ends long legacy
TBT#492 [ Jan 25, 2006 ]
RIGA - Hidden away on Jauniela, one of Old Riga’s ...
Capturing the loneliness of sea
TBT#491 [ Jan 18, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Constant danger, huge waves tossing a sm...
Bags of bottles bring in a pocket of change
TBT#490 [ Jan 11, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Like a lot of foreign residents in the B...
2006 – fifteen years after the barricades
TBT#489 [ Jan 04, 2006 ]
RIGA - This January millions of Balts will commemo...
Kumu: Estonian art finds a new home
TBT#488 [ Dec 21, 2005 ]
TALLINN - Approaching the Kumu on its quieter, sub...
Glued to a screen: the trouble with kids today
TBT#487 [ Dec 14, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - After 10 hours of playing games on a com...
Getting to the root of Latvian philosophy
TBT#486 [ Dec 07, 2005 ]
RIGA - In a recent poll to find 100 important Latv...
The ins and outs of the Baltic countryside: a special guide
TBT#485 [ Nov 30, 2005 ]
Tourists are flocking to the Baltic states in reco...
The architectural battleground for Lithuanian independence
TBT#484 [ Nov 23, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - In the late 1950s the capitals of the Ba...
National library finally looks set to go ahead
TBT#483 [ Nov 16, 2005 ]
RIGA - The Castle of Light sank and vanished from ...
Skype shakes up the way
TBT#482 [ Nov 09, 2005 ]
TALLINN - Every 100th person in the world uses Sky...
Cinema is like box of chocolates
TBT#481 [ Nov 02, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - A few students enter the green doors of ...
How Latvia’s timber trade changed the shape of Europe
TBT#480 [ Oct 26, 2005 ]
RIGA - This year Britain, France and Spain commemo...
Evald Okas: an unfinished portrait
TBT#479 [ Oct 19, 2005 ]
TALLINN - Like his life, Evald Okas’ paintings hav...
Green is back on the scene
TBT#478 [ Oct 12, 2005 ]
RIGA - Ask a Latvian for a stereotype of his compa...
The accidental image that captured an era
TBT#477 [ Oct 05, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - A man stoically walks against the wind, ...
Fighting for another country, by choice
TBT#476 [ Sep 28, 2005 ]
PARNU - Now that his army gear is off, Matti Tikov...
Growing cranberries out of the ashes
TBT#475 [ Sep 21, 2005 ]
RIGA - On April 26, 1986, reactor no. 4 at the Che...
Lithuanian cinema strives to find its niche
TBT#474 [ Sep 14, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - This year has been a rather fruitful one...
Online with 395.000 of my best friends
TBT#473 [ Sep 07, 2005 ]
RIGA - It started out as the simple idea to create...
Businessman and musician: the two faces of Algirdas Kauspedas
TBT#472 [ Aug 31, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - Fifteen years ago, he sang before an aud...
The little kid with the mega-karat voice
TBT#471 [ Aug 24, 2005 ]
VASTERAS, SWEDEN - With her impressive voice that ...
The high-flying life of a chimney sweep
TBT#470 [ Aug 17, 2005 ]
TALLINN - With the amount of attention Tiit Maekiv...
Milky soft and laser sharp, lithuanian band set to conquer the world
TBT#469 [ Aug 10, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - The young, extravagant Lithuanian group ...
Developing cultural tourism outside of the big city
TBT#468 [ Aug 03, 2005 ]
TUKUMS - Many times I have thought that it would b...
The modern rennaisance of rue
TBT#467 [ Jul 27, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - Lithuania is renowned for many things: i...
Plans and Hopes in Minister's Portfolio
TBT#466 [ Jul 20, 2005 ]
Half a year ago, thirteen ministers of the thirtee...
A road less taken - the underbelly of Baltic tourism
TBT#465 [ Jul 13, 2005 ]
The Baltic states are currently witnessing an unpr...
Kaali crater: still having an impact
TBT#464 [ Jul 06, 2005 ]
TALLINN - It’s kind of an unwritten rule in Estoni...
A Lithuanian jazz story; from New Orleans to Vilnius
TBT#463 [ Jun 29, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - When it comes to live jazz in the Baltic...
A piece of Soviet history that just won't go away
TBT#462 [ Jun 15, 2005 ]
RIGA - In many people’s eyes, the most visible tes...
The end of Lietuva cinema, the death of community culture
TBT#461 [ Jun 08, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - How do you measure, in a non-monetary se...
‘Brain drain’ question: myth or reality?
TBT#460 [ Jun 01, 2005 ]
RIGA - It is becoming increasingly apparent that m...
Dubbing it out; one man’s battle against TV voice-overs
TBT#459 [ May 25, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - In a bid to increase second-language flu...
Lacplesis epic reborn in English
TBT#458 [ May 18, 2005 ]
RIGA - Finally, the Latvian epic poem “Lacplesis” ...
St. John’s Church to celebrate long-awaited return
TBT#457 [ May 11, 2005 ]
TARTU - It had been a derelict, burnt-out wreck si...
Youthful talent brings the joy of music to Riga
TBT#456 [ May 04, 2005 ]
RIGA - One thing is certain; the Baltics certainly...
Looking for the truth behind Lihula
TBT#455 [ Apr 27, 2005 ]
LIHULA - It was the longest article about a Baltic...
Building harmony amid the discord
TBT#454 [ Apr 20, 2005 ]
RIGA - The first thing that any visitor learns abo...
Estonia’s unique biological inventory
TBT#453 [ Apr 13, 2005 ]
Tallinn - Spring, at last, is in the air, as are t...
Tearful return to Latvia after a 60-year absence
TBT#452 [ Apr 06, 2005 ]
RIGA - There was no one at the Riga airport to mee...
Revising a bizarre chapter in Latvia’s Holocaust history
TBT#451 [ Mar 30, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - In the last days of November 1941, Fritz...
Kernave’s upcoming events
TBT#450 [ Mar 23, 2005 ]
It’s best to visit Kernave on a sunny day to get a...
Kernave: Lithuania’s ‘Troy’ to celebrate UNESCO heritage site listing
TBT#450 [ Mar 23, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - Few countries are so fortunate as to hav...
New approach to drug prevention good on paper, lacking in practice
TBT#449 [ Mar 16, 2005 ]
TALLINN - “It is impossible to get out. To get out...
Today Purvciems, tomorrow the world
TBT#448 [ Mar 09, 2005 ]
RIGA - Secondary School 84 is an unlikely setting ...
From ‘A’ to ‘B’ by bus...Baltic-style
TBT#447 [ Mar 02, 2005 ]
RIGA - One of the nice things about living in Riga...
Back to health on the back of a horse
TBT#446 [ Feb 23, 2005 ]
RIGA - Riding therapy has been around for a very l...
Spiritual reflection amid military might
TBT#445 [ Feb 16, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - It’s Sunday morning Mass at St. Ignatius...
New Baltic film school promises to boost local media
TBT#444 [ Feb 09, 2005 ]
TALLINN - On average, a meager three or four featu...
It’s Latvia, but not quite as you know it
TBT#443 [ Feb 02, 2005 ]
RIGA - Go into any bookshop and you’ll find a few ...
Standing firm in the name of freedom
TBT#442 [ Jan 26, 2005 ]
RIGA - One of the good things about being a journa...
Vilnius Roma poised on the brink of all-out eviction
TBT#441 [ Jan 19, 2005 ]
VILNIUS - The winter morning in the Vilnius Roma s...
Sweating out the bleak Baltic winter
TBT#440 [ Jan 12, 2005 ]
RIGA - This winter is turning out to be so wet, wi...
Canine welfare - Tallinn takes the lead
TBT#439 [ Jan 06, 2005 ]
TALLINN - Thirty minutes' drive from the cente...
How was this year for you, darling?
TBT#438 [ Dec 22, 2004 ]
Find out what do people think of the past year 200...
The forgotten fleet: the British navy and Baltic independence
TBT#437 [ Dec 15, 2004 ]
RIGA - While Latvia held back-to-back celebrations...
The TBT guide to buying a used car
TBT#434 [ Nov 25, 2004 ]
TALLINN - I am standing in the back of a used car...
The return of the saint
TBT#433 [ Nov 17, 2004 ]
VILNIUS - It wasn't only the newly signed EU c...
The problems of becoming a natural born Latvian
TBT#432 [ Nov 10, 2004 ]
RIGA - "Congratulations, you've passed the...
Estonia's fight against alcoholism drained of resources
TBT#431 [ Nov 01, 2004 ]
TALLINN - Just beyond the city center, and Tallinn...
The Baltic way by foot
TBT#430 [ Oct 27, 2004 ]
Estonia: Unexpected welcomeLatvia: Sweet and sourL...
Why does Lithuania attract so much bad press?
TBT#429 [ Oct 20, 2004 ]
VILNIUS - It is not very often that Lithuania hits...
Estonian Euroskeptics continue to fight their corner
TBT#428 [ Oct 13, 2004 ]
TALLINN - At the British Conservative Party's ...
Old problems, new challenges
TBT#427 [ Oct 06, 2004 ]
RIGA - It just happened to be the International Da...
Anniversary of the czar’s Baltic Fleet rout
TBT#426 [ Sep 29, 2004 ]
RIGA - A unique centennial will flicker by the Bal...
The good, the bad and the downright bizarre
TBT#425 [ Sep 22, 2004 ]
Now and then a story comes along that is so outrag...
Estonia considers its future as a smoke-free zone
TBT#424 [ Sep 15, 2004 ]
TALLINN - There’s nothing quite like it: the camar...
Connecting hard-working women around the world
TBT#423 [ Sep 09, 2004 ]
RIGA - Probably no one who attended the Riga Women...
Let this be the winter of our content
TBT#422 [ Sep 02, 2004 ]
RIGA - The air is becoming crisp and cold. The day...
Feathers fly at fourth Finno-Ugric 'family reunion'
TBT#421 [ Aug 26, 2004 ]
TALLINN - Finno-Ugric languages are spoken by 23 d...
Czeslaw Milosz - Lithuania's native foreign son
TBT#420 [ Aug 19, 2004 ]
"A Poor Christian Girl Looks at the Ghetto"...
Tallinn Zoo's struggle against extinction
TBT#419 [ Aug 12, 2004 ]
Tallinn - When I first met Franz a few years ago, ...
Rediscovering the Vilna of old
TBT#418 [ Aug 05, 2004 ]
VILNIUS- Most people have probably heard the commo...
Rigas most precious symbol in Jeopardy
TBT#417 [ Jul 28, 2004 ]
RIGA - The sound of the organ in Dome Cathedral, e...
Estonia - the state of the e-state
TBT#416 [ Jul 22, 2004 ]
TALLINN - Seven years ago, the then Estonian presi...
Who wants to be the Lithuanian president?
TBT#415 [ Jul 15, 2004 ]
VILNIUS - With President Valdas Adamkus' inaug...
Catching up with the grand old man of Latvian brewing
TBT#414 [ Jul 08, 2004 ]
BAUSKA - An elderly man with white hair and a gran...
New recycling center hopes to change attitudes in Estonia
TBT#412 [ Jun 17, 2004 ]
TALLINN - Estonia has a fine, if rather unusual tr...
Baltic filmmakers struggle to get film industry in motion
TBT#411 [ Jun 10, 2004 ]
RIGA - Baltic cinema is in a bad state. With a sev...
Baltic music industry seeks magic formula for success
TBT#410 [ Jun 03, 2004 ]
RIGA - For some people the idea of a Baltic music ...
Latvian expats ponder which is their home from home
TBT#409 [ May 27, 2004 ]
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TBT#405 [ Apr 29, 2004 ]
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TBT#403 [ Apr 15, 2004 ]
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TBT#398 [ Mar 11, 2004 ]
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TBT#391 [ Jan 22, 2004 ]
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TBT#370 [ Aug 14, 2003 ]
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TBT#324 [ Sep 12, 2002 ]
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TBT#323 [ Sep 05, 2002 ]
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TBT#313 [ Jun 27, 2002 ]
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TBT#311 [ Jun 13, 2002 ]
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TBT#308 [ May 23, 2002 ]
The world is changing so rapidly that no one knows...
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TBT#305 [ May 02, 2002 ]
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TBT#304 [ Apr 25, 2002 ]
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Leadership with a smile comes to basketball country
TBT#291 [ Jan 24, 2002 ]
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TBT#291 [ Jan 24, 2002 ]
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TBT#290 [ Jan 17, 2002 ]
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TBT#284 [ Nov 22, 2001 ]
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TBT#282 [ Nov 08, 2001 ]
TALLINN - A six-member team of Estonian expert BBQ...
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TBT#282 [ Nov 08, 2001 ]
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TBT#281 [ Nov 01, 2001 ]
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TBT#280 [ Oct 25, 2001 ]
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TBT#279 [ Oct 18, 2001 ]
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TBT#277 [ Oct 04, 2001 ]
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TBT#276 [ Sep 27, 2001 ]
RIGA - Jevgeny Gomberg has had a very high media p...
Methanol carnage grips resort town at summer's end
TBT#275 [ Sep 20, 2001 ]
PARNU - "The parents of my daughter's clas...
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Enthusiasts rush to help historic railway
TBT#273 [ Sep 06, 2001 ]
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TBT#272 [ Aug 30, 2001 ]
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TBT#272 [ Aug 30, 2001 ]
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TBT#271 [ Aug 23, 2001 ]
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TBT#267 [ Jul 26, 2001 ]
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TBT#264 [ Jul 05, 2001 ]
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TBT#263 [ Jun 28, 2001 ]
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RIGA - The largest artificial climbing surface eve...
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MINSK - For retired head teacher Irina Petrenko th...
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TBT#255 [ May 03, 2001 ]
RIGA - Another Ice Hockey World Championships and ...
Hockey phenomenon may end soonBy J. Michael Lyons, RIGA
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Editorial staff go cruising for bruising
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Hiker sinks into wilds to help children
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TBT#251 [ Apr 05, 2001 ]
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Riga circus struggles through legal battle
TBT#249 [ Mar 22, 2001 ]
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TBT#248 [ Mar 15, 2001 ]
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TBT#245 [ Feb 22, 2001 ]
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The king may be dead, but Tarzan is alive and well...
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TBT#149 [ Mar 11, 1999 ]
On a month long trip to Gambia, Vineta Lagzdina re...
A nation's culture running out of steam
TBT#242 [ Feb 01, 2001 ]
As purse strings tighten, the arts are suffering f...
Passions run high over Tallinn mosque plans
TBT#242 [ Feb 01, 2001 ]
Controversial Azeri businessman Habib Guliyev inte...
Believing in a button
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
From the rooftops of Latvia, Katya Cengel reports ...
Far from an orphan
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Peace Corps volunteer Ed Greenwood was a little ne...
Stirring up the Milky Way
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Three days of sipping cocktails, mixing drinks and...
Racing on thin ice
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Warm weather kept the races off the lake, but Roka...
Ignalina: the closest place to Switzerland
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Mention Ignalina, most think nuclear meltdown. Act...
Latvians alight on dark continent
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Politicians speak about Latvia's "path to ...
IT ends five decades of solitude
TBT#241 [ Jan 25, 2001 ]
What could be a better present for a 90th birthday...
Big Brother has an eye on Tallinn
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
Even reserved Estonians get heated up when electio...
The never ending trip
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
Almost done with a two-year-long traveling stint, ...
Bar wars: Return of the yuppie
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
Forget the pork chops and boiled potatoes. The new...
Latvia's made for movie pine trees
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
What better place to open a new movie studio than ...
Scooby Doo English
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
Gone are the days when those who learned English a...
Seven deadly sins
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
It all started with a joke. In the spring of 1996 ...
Little Roberto comes to Latvia
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel reports on the Italian opera singer w...
Freedom Monument fantasies
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
What do the guards at the Freedom Monument think a...
Polva's Exodus
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
As Estonian elections inch closer, Rebecca Santana...
No more Thursday fish days
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
An increase in variety has helped vegetarianism ga...
The farthest flung Latvians
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
Thousands of Latvians living in Siberia like it th...
Lithuania marks its night of triumph
TBT#240 [ Jan 18, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - In January 1991, the Soviet army turned ...
Latvia remembers fight for freedom
TBT#240 [ Jan 18, 2001 ]
RIGA - Events to mark the 10th anniversary of the ...
Ghosts in Latvia's fastest graveyard
TBT#144 [ Feb 04, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel recently visited the bobsled and luge...
Faithful farmer
TBT#144 [ Feb 04, 1999 ]
"Do you know the latest?" Varis Kamergrauz...
When normal is abnormal
TBT#144 [ Feb 04, 1999 ]
I was shocked to find so many "normal" peo...
Helping Moscow orphans inside out
TBT#144 [ Feb 04, 1999 ]
The problems Russian orphans face receive a fair a...
Rebel without a pause
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
After cycling around the globe and defying the Sov...
Flaming across the sea
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
People come to the Baltics for all kinds of reason...
Flamenco fever heats up Estonian women
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
Estonia may be physically far from Spain but this ...
A look at Lithuania's 'little worlds'
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
It is not often one is able to see the character o...
A century and more under the round roof
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
Riga's circus is celebrating its 110th anniver...
Riding the underpants express from Vilnius to Riga
TBT#239 [ Jan 11, 2001 ]
It's not murder on the Baltik Ekspress but und...
Latvian media on the rise
TBT#239 [ Jan 11, 2001 ]
RIGA - Over the past 18 months, Latvia has seen ma...
Lithuanians ride the road of EU education
TBT#142 [ Jan 21, 1999 ]
To celebrate the start of its six month EU preside...
The draw of Lithuania
TBT#142 [ Jan 21, 1999 ]
It's never easy to say good-bye. For Teresa Bo...
The dairy cow between the lines
TBT#142 [ Jan 21, 1999 ]
You've heard the pleas, you've seen the tr...
The Bible bug for the year 2000
TBT#142 [ Jan 21, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel reports on Latvian children who, rega...
Pilots rising high above the past
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
For thousands of years people have dreamed of flyi...
Pocket traveler
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
Every time readers thumb through "Tallinn in Y...
Pocket traveler
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
Every time readers thumb through "Tallinn in Y...
Samogitians find their home in Lithuania
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
In Western Lithuania there is a group of people wh...
When the boys came home
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
When searching for someone who has been missing mo...
Clowning around Red Square
TBT#140 [ Jan 07, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel reports on how bad times in Moscow tu...
On the grapevine
TBT#140 [ Jan 07, 1999 ]
Anybody who has visited Latvia knows that the loca...
Bring on the cheese
TBT#140 [ Jan 07, 1999 ]
Three Americans from Wisconsin who packed their ba...
Tallinn's expatriate social architect
TBT#140 [ Jan 07, 1999 ]
John Morgan caught up with a social architect who ...
Your falling stars for the coming year
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
The Baltic's most esteemed and unethical astro...
Changing face of Advent
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
As the idea of Christmas catches on with more and ...
Rapping in Riga
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
How did a man born in Ghana, an American rap group...
Seeing in the new year, Russian style
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
During Soviet times, when Dec. 25 was nothing more...
Parallel worlds cross at Swedish conference
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
Katya Cengel reports on a conference that offered ...
Uniting in Lithuania
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
Raj Chaudhary, retired Wing Commander of the India...
Hanging stockings in Latvia and Lithuania
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
Imants Buss Although Buss has been living here for...
Fairy tales by candlelight
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
A visit to the magic village of Rocca-al-Mare prov...
The best time to go to the cinema
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
The Black Nights film festival in Tallinn served u...
Talented in Tallinn
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
Viido Polikarpus is a man of many talents. An illu...
Making movies out of nightmares
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
A film trilogy by Assi Dayan coupled with the dire...
Vodka, with some assembly required
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
Many of the things worth bragging about in life co...
Seafarer finds her feet in Tallinn
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
Denise Albrighton caught up with an Estonian-Canad...
Live and losing it in Lithuania
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
Drunken DJs, swearing news anchors and crawling ge...
Singing Latvia's praises
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
I just want you to know we've done this before...
Shalom club provides necessary shove
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
It's got its hands full with the peace process...
Holiday wish list
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
For all those seasonal Santas, Katya Cengel report...
UNICEF cards that help out
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
As UNICEF begins another season of card sales, Dan...
Santa, bring me a mobile!
TBT#238 [ Dec 21, 2000 ]
TALLINN - Most Estonian residents are eager to get...
A traditional Lithuanian Christmas
TBT#238 [ Dec 21, 2000 ]
VILNIUS - For Lithuanians, Christmas Eve is the mo...
First Lady gives kids a Christmas
TBT#238 [ Dec 21, 2000 ]
VILNIUS - The wife of Lithuania's president, ...
Thanks, Mr. Gorbachov
TBT#136 [ Nov 26, 1998 ]
A roofer turned priest helps former prisoners make...
One country at a time
TBT#136 [ Nov 26, 1998 ]
Unless a foreigner spends a considerable amount of...
Hunting for the hero of Red October
TBT#136 [ Nov 26, 1998 ]
Before the movie, he risked everything for freedom...
Latvians toast freedom, freeze toes
TBT#136 [ Nov 26, 1998 ]
From fraternity marches to fireworks, Latvia's...
Report from hopelessness
TBT#237 [ Dec 14, 2000 ]
This conversation might be regarded as a particula...
Journey to the land of the Eurocrats
TBT#134 [ Nov 12, 1998 ]
The pilgrimage to the EU follows a dark and stormy...
Armed to the hilt on Estonian streets?
TBT#134 [ Nov 12, 1998 ]
Crime may be on the rise in Estonia but it is noth...
Magician or musician?
TBT#134 [ Nov 12, 1998 ]
From the studios of Los Angeles to the streets of ...
Still a Lada love in Lithuania
TBT#134 [ Nov 12, 1998 ]
The nouveau riche of Lithuania may be cruising in ...
Nude is not a four-letter word for these porn-brokers
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
Far from seeing anything dirty in their profession...
Exiles have a maul in Riga
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
As business picks up and the Baltics become more w...
Rugby's rough ride in Estonia
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
Believe it or not, Estonia is the only Eastern Eur...
Making displaced women feel at home
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
If women ran the world, Czech author Milan Kundera...
Paws for thought
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
Conventional wisdom has it that Estonians are a qu...
Latvia without amber-colored glasses
TBT#120 [ Aug 06, 1998 ]
Aldis Tilens' curiosity about his Latvian root...
Pancakes for the present, pancakes for the past
TBT#120 [ Aug 06, 1998 ]
There are only a handful of places that symbolize ...
A crowning good-bye
TBT#120 [ Aug 06, 1998 ]
Before pulling out of Latvia, a group of British c...
Few memories, lots of attention
TBT#120 [ Aug 06, 1998 ]
The newspapers billed it as a rehabilitation camp ...
Circus court battle could bring the house down
TBT#236 [ Dec 07, 2000 ]
Behind the fruit machines and news kiosks that lin...
Nuclear threat off northeastern border
TBT#236 [ Dec 07, 2000 ]
Just 100 km from the northeastern border of Estoni...
Can Lithuania become a Baltic Tiger?
TBT#235 [ Nov 30, 2000 ]
In the last decade, the economic success of the Re...
Life in the slow track
TBT#234 [ Nov 23, 2000 ]
As Latvia's larger cities become wealthier the...
Dreaming of horses and green grass
TBT#233 [ Nov 16, 2000 ]
According to official estimates, there are 8,165 G...
Karate drop kicks its way into Lithuania
TBT#135 [ Nov 19, 1998 ]
Making up for time lost under Soviet repression, m...
Breaking through cultural boundaries
TBT#135 [ Nov 19, 1998 ]
The word "volunteer" has had a bad rap in ...
Baltic Sea identity
TBT#135 [ Nov 19, 1998 ]
The inaugural Rauma Biennale Balticum in 1985 was ...
A picture perfect village
TBT#135 [ Nov 19, 1998 ]
It emerged from the debris of World War II and is ...
Eskimo trees and dangerous ABCs
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Collector and linguist Juris Cibuls offers a fresh...
Lithuanian raja
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Raj Chaudhary, a 61-year-old retired Wing Commande...
It's not New Orleans, but it's definitely Jazz
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Paul Beckman reports on the tunes that filtered in...
Baltic notes, not rain, travel to France
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Jacqueline Karp Gendre recalls a delightful evenin...
A guitarist for all seasons
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Baldi Olier gave Latvia and Estonia a taste of the...
Competition or advertising campaign?
TBT#232 [ Nov 09, 2000 ]
Following the pedophilia scandal connected to the ...
Building a better body
TBT#232 [ Nov 09, 2000 ]
You are probably wrong thinking the Internet is mo...
The man who tuned up Lithuanian music
TBT#132 [ Oct 29, 1998 ]
Paul Beckman reports on a music man in Lithuania w...
Transported Andersons
TBT#132 [ Oct 29, 1998 ]
Although he is in the business of transporting peo...
The road to Latvia
TBT#132 [ Oct 29, 1998 ]
Gypsies have been a part of Europe ever since they...
Home on the abandoned military base
TBT#132 [ Oct 29, 1998 ]
A visit to Paldiski has been described as a nostal...
In search of a king: Tallinn's pizza contest
TBT#231 [ Nov 02, 2000 ]
"It's a pizza on steroids!" American e...
Anglicans help to restore Tallinn church
TBT#231 [ Nov 02, 2000 ]
The Anglican community in Estonia is leading the f...
Weird spins in a changing world
TBT#131 [ Oct 22, 1998 ]
El Nino, Russia on its knees, Latvians making sens...
A dancer's itchy feet
TBT#131 [ Oct 22, 1998 ]
It was time for a change. For New York-based dance...
Lithuania's spiritual ambassador to the East
TBT#131 [ Oct 22, 1998 ]
Disgusted by the deterioration of Western culture,...
Feed the world
TBT#131 [ Oct 22, 1998 ]
Think of Riga and Hare Krishna probably is not the...
You've come a long way, Baby!
TBT#130 [ Oct 15, 1998 ]
Estonia, known for its beautiful but reserved wome...
Schoolhouse Rock
TBT#620 [ Aug 27, 2008 ]
RIGA - Eight competitors tested their pedals, wait...
"Harding Landing" – the book
TBT#619 [ Aug 20, 2008 ]
TALLINN - As a Black Briton I can say this – in ma...
Night club scams on the rise
TBT#618 [ Aug 13, 2008 ]
RIGA - Last May Toni Lahtinen walked into a night ...
A country within a country
TBT#617 [ Aug 06, 2008 ]
Not a single prisoner or prison guard is going to ...
Baltic athletes going for the gold and euros
TBT#616 [ Jul 30, 2008 ]
With the 2008 Olympic Games just a week away, few ...
Lithuanian roads most dangerous in Europe
TBT#615 [ Jul 23, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - Lithuania is the most dangerous place to...
The great language myth
TBT#614 [ Jul 16, 2008 ]
TALLINN-VILNIUS - Estonians can be strange people....
Fighting to preserve a nation’s heritage
TBT#613 [ Jul 09, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - When Tobias Jasetas was a small child, h...
Getting back to roots
TBT#612 [ Jul 02, 2008 ]
RIGA - I must have heard the story a hundred times...
Swedish Empire strikes back
TBT#611 [ Jun 18, 2008 ]
TALLINN - The following list may be familiar to an...
Saving Estonia’s abused children
TBT#610 [ Jun 11, 2008 ]
TALLINN - Kadi Tuusk lived in a poor suburb on the...
Brits and Irish behaving badly… again
TBT#609 [ Jun 04, 2008 ]
RIGA - In May 2008, a Briton aged 32 was fined for...
Go forth and multiply
TBT#608 [ May 28, 2008 ]
TALLINN - In his annual address to the nation, Est...
Bigotry and denial
TBT#607 [ May 21, 2008 ]
A man, let’s call him Joe Bloggs, told The Baltic ...
Ice hockey as a way of life
TBT#606 [ May 14, 2008 ]
Now that Latvia has been ousted from the World Ice...
Searching for saunas? Don’t sweat it
TBT#604 [ May 01, 2008 ]
Though sitting naked in a hot, steamy room and wha...
Marriage, Estonian style
TBT#603 [ Apr 23, 2008 ]
TALLINN - You meet that perfect person. You fall i...
Sinking in a quagmire of debt
TBT#602 [ Apr 16, 2008 ]
RIGA - Gints, a project manager for a small compan...
Quiet genius who brought the East
TBT#601 [ Apr 09, 2008 ]
TALLINN - The Koran is undoubtedly one of the most...
It’s spring, it’s Cinema Spring!
TBT#600 [ Apr 03, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - Woody Allen, Alexandr Sokurov, Andrzej W...
The Baltic's suffering teachers
TBT#599 [ Mar 26, 2008 ]
Life is no picnic for Baltic schoolteachers. The s...
Mystery of the three-handed saint
TBT#597 [ Mar 12, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - One of the must-see stops on any t...
An adventure in venture capital
TBT#596 [ Mar 05, 2008 ]
RIGA - Venture capital will be the next big thing ...
Speed dating takes Latvia by storm
TBT#595 [ Feb 27, 2008 ]
RIGA - Guys and gals get ready – speed dating has ...
A success for Lithuanian movie-making
TBT#594 [ Feb 20, 2008 ]
VILNIUS - Breaking box office records in Lit...
Nonfat, triple shot, two pump, Estonian latte, palun
TBT#593 [ Feb 13, 2008 ]
TALLINN - Throughout the modern world, two common ...
Oh no, it’s Osho: a villain speaks from beyond the grave
TBT#592 [ Feb 06, 2008 ]
RIGA - It is hard to walk into a bookstore in Riga...
A close-up look at ‘The New Cold War’
TBT#591 [ Jan 30, 2008 ]
TALLINN - “Ladies and gentlemen, the recent talk a...
‘Februhairy’ soon to grow on Estonia
TBT#590 [ Jan 23, 2008 ]
TALLINN - The moustache has had a long and conflic...
Turbulent times for Latvian credit
TBT#589 [ Jan 16, 2008 ]
RIGA - The Latvian credit market is at a crucial t...
Making the Vilnius Jewish Library a reality
TBT#588 [ Jan 09, 2008 ]
TALLINN - I caught up with Wyman Brent at a hostel...
A sneak preview of next year’s headlines
TBT#587 [ Dec 19, 2007 ]
We at The Baltic Times have always prided ourselve...
Dark times ahead for the ‘Castle of Light?’
TBT#586 [ Dec 12, 2007 ]
RIGA - The 66 meter high structure will tower abov...
A look at life on a Lithuanian pension
TBT#584 [ Nov 28, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - In a heavy winter coat and thick black b...
Estonia: the days of cheap thrills are over
TBT#583 [ Nov 21, 2007 ]
TALLINN - It was during a recent weekend trip to B...
Carrying the flag of avant-garde art
TBT#582 [ Nov 14, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - “It shouldn’t be a museum, that is, ... ...
Unraveling the mysteries of St. Martin’s Day
TBT#581 [ Nov 07, 2007 ]
RIGA - Anyone who spends a bit of time in the Balt...
The karate master turned storyteller
TBT#579 [ Oct 24, 2007 ]
RIGA - Lancashire native Leigh Smith first travele...
Sacrificing privacy for national security
TBT#578 [ Oct 17, 2007 ]
In a matter of weeks, the details of every phone c...
Wages and inflation – Latvia’s economic vicious circle
TBT#576 [ Oct 03, 2007 ]
RIGA - The Latvian government is stuck between a r...
Lasnamae’s autumnal image problem
TBT#575 [ Sep 26, 2007 ]
TALLINN - Of all of Lasnamae’s curses, the worst i...
Vilnius’ new home for performance art
TBT#574 [ Sep 19, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - Behind the gates of a defunct, Soviet-er...
To serve, protect and survive the boredom
TBT#573 [ Sep 12, 2007 ]
RIGA - It was about 9 p.m. when I approached the i...
Across the Russian border, looking back
TBT#572 [ Sep 05, 2007 ]
TALLINN - I packed two bottles of Vana Tallinn liq...
Can a music festival really bridge borders?
TBT#571 [ Aug 29, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - Among a sea of colorful tents, several n...
Performing for pennies: the life of a busker
TBT#570 [ Aug 22, 2007 ]
RIGA - Riga’s Old Town is full of music these da...
Is Estonia silencing its opponents?
TBT#569 [ Aug 15, 2007 ]
TALLINN - From the outset, it should be said that ...
‘Capital of Culture’ ...and construction
TBT#568 [ Aug 08, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - To the sound of drills buzzing and...
Stopping sex ‘terrorism’ in Riga
TBT#567 [ Aug 01, 2007 ]
RIGA - To anyone walking the streets of Riga’s Old...
Tourists checking out of Tallinn
TBT#566 [ Jul 25, 2007 ]
TALLINN - “When I arrived in Tallinn in August 200...
The line between fans and hooligans
TBT#565 [ Jul 18, 2007 ]
By now everyone in Lithuania knows the infamous ta...
Latvian cyclists reach critical mass
TBT#564 [ Jul 11, 2007 ]
RIGA - Shortly after buying a bike and joining the...
A hitchhiker’s guide to Saaremaa
TBT#563 [ Jul 04, 2007 ]
SAAREMAA - “When we saw your tent, we thought, ‘So...
Two hundred years after the ‘peace’ of Tilsit
TBT#562 [ Jun 27, 2007 ]
KLAIPEDA - Prussia’s Frederick Wilhelm III and his...
A Midsummer night’s dream
TBT#561 [ Jun 20, 2007 ]
RIGA - Quests for magical fern blossoms and heal...
Estonia kicks the habit
TBT#560 [ Jun 13, 2007 ]
TALLINN - Estonia is quitting cigarettes cold turk...
Coping with the heat, Lithuanian style
TBT#559 [ Jun 06, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - They say that Lithuanians like to talk a...
The changing face of Andrejsala
TBT#558 [ May 30, 2007 ]
RIGA - While all cities develop in different ways,...
Eurovision and the politics of identity
TBT#557 [ May 23, 2007 ]
For most of us, Eurovision is synonymous with flas...
Neighborhood activism reborn in Tartu
TBT#556 [ May 16, 2007 ]
TARTU - On Saturday, May 19, the Karlova district ...
A place to play Dirty Harry, Soviet style
TBT#555 [ May 09, 2007 ]
RIGA - Riga offers quite a few interesting nooks a...
Seeing the forest for the trees in Klaipeda
TBT#554 [ May 02, 2007 ]
KLAIPEDA - My friends and I have always enjoyed th...
A very French spring comes to Riga
TBT#553 [ Apr 25, 2007 ]
RIGA - It’s impossible to walk more than a few blo...
Staffing woes wound the Baltic tiger
TBT#552 [ Apr 18, 2007 ]
TALLINN - “If we had known then what we know now, ...
England meets Latvia on the airwaves
TBT#551 [ Apr 04, 2007 ]
RIGA - There’s no use denying it. For whatever rea...
Linguistic enlightenment on your bus ride
TBT#550 [ Mar 28, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - Anyone who takes public transportation i...
Estonia addresses its redneck problem
TBT#549 [ Mar 21, 2007 ]
TALLINN - “They are all idiots,” sings Vaiko Eplik...
Best-loved writer Gone with the Dreams
TBT#548 [ Mar 14, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - Jurga Ivanauskaite is a unique figure in...
Spreading the good word on green food
TBT#547 [ Mar 07, 2007 ]
RIGA - Latvians take their food very seriously. Th...
Estonians enjoy Slovakia on the cheap
TBT#546 [ Feb 28, 2007 ]
SLOVAKIA - It’s a worrying indicator of culinary q...
The Curonian Spit: infinite change beneath a mask of timelessness
TBT#545 [ Feb 21, 2007 ]
NIDA - The 98-kilometer long Curonian Spit – a str...
Baltic schools behind in computer use
TBT#544 [ Feb 14, 2007 ]
RIGA - The use of computer technology and the Inte...
Singing Revolution takes the big screen
TBT#543 [ Feb 07, 2007 ]
TALLINN - “This is a story that has never been tol...
Tallinn rediscovers Karp legacy
TBT#542 [ Jan 31, 2007 ]
TALLINN - There’s nothing neutral about Raine Karp...
Capturing Vilnius in 45 seconds
TBT#541 [ Jan 24, 2007 ]
VILNIUS - What does a woman playing the cello on P...
Freak weather throws Balts into confusion
TBT#540 [ Jan 17, 2007 ]
RIGA - This winter has seen the highest temperatur...
A lifetime of art, in reflection
TBT#539 [ Jan 10, 2007 ]
TALLINN - I arranged to meet Juri Arrak at Kumu, T...
Looking back on an eventful, record-breaking year
TBT#538 [ Dec 20, 2006 ]
RIGA - News in the Baltic states is a curious thin...
Film school welcomes fresh talent
TBT#536 [ Dec 06, 2006 ]
TALLINN - A bottle of vodka was all it took. Four ...
The Russian soul, detached
TBT#535 [ Nov 29, 2006 ]
KALININGRAD - Finding reliable background informat...
What lies beneath
TBT#533 [ Nov 15, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Boris Dubovik possesses a most interesti...
Children above the earth
TBT#532 [ Nov 08, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Are there any bright days for a child wi...
Eustace Tilly on the Baltics
TBT#531 [ Nov 01, 2006 ]
The New Yorker has been well-known for its witty, ...
Welcome to the company choir
TBT#530 [ Oct 25, 2006 ]
TALLINN - At any given song festival, the list of ...
The Staprans affair
TBT#529 [ Oct 18, 2006 ]
RIGA - At 11 a.m. on Oct. 11, Raimonds Staprans ar...
Snapshots of Las Vegas
TBT#528 [ Oct 11, 2006 ]
RIGA - In November 1983, Ulvis Alberts, a photogra...
Don’t blow this house down
TBT#527 [ Oct 04, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Rene Valner is building a house from str...
Iraqi filmmaker’s dreams come to Riga
TBT#526 [ Sep 27, 2006 ]
RIGA - In 2003, only a few short months after the ...
Sounds of the Underground
TBT#525 [ Sep 20, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - It’s 2:00 a.m. in a small bar outside th...
No man is an island
TBT#524 [ Sep 13, 2006 ]
RIGA - Edmunds Zalite lives on a raft in the Dauga...
Young acrobats of Tallinn
TBT#523 [ Sep 07, 2006 ]
TALLINN - In Estonia, “circus” is still a dirty wo...
The Ryanair experience
TBT#522 [ Aug 30, 2006 ]
RIGA,STOCKHOLM - A few weeks ago, a friend who had...
Holding onto the Curonian Spit
TBT#521 [ Aug 23, 2006 ]
NERINGA, Lithuania - For the past three-and-a-half...
Journeymen find their way to Estonia
TBT#520 [ Aug 16, 2006 ]
TALLINN - Christian and Matthais each have one set...
Waiting for the Good News
TBT#519 [ Aug 09, 2006 ]
RIGA - A Sunday service at the Good News Christian...
Welcome to the New Generation
TBT#518 [ Aug 02, 2006 ]
RIGA - New Generation, a 5,000-strong non-denomina...
In search of ‘Soviet Retro’ in Estonia
TBT#517 [ Jul 26, 2006 ]
TALLINN - There’s a lucrative profession in the fa...
Lithuanian designers fight for good taste
TBT#515 [ Jul 12, 2006 ]
VILNIUS - Surrounded by swirling mosquitoes, ten ...
Estonians await return of the lodi
TBT#514 [ Jul 05, 2006 ]
TARTU - On a warm summer’s day the fresh-cut plank...
Scenes from the White Nights
TBT#513 [ Jun 28, 2006 ]
ST. PETERSBURG - Peter the Great built St. Petersb...
Pardon, could you tell us about your plaque?
TBT#512 [ Jun 14, 2006 ]
At least one building on every block of central Ri...
How green is Tallinn?
TBT#511 [ Jun 07, 2006 ]
TALLINN - In the calm woods of suburban Tallinn th...
Backlots and dreams in Tukums
TBT#510 [ May 31, 2006 ]
TUKUMS, Latvia - There are a few disappointing thi...
Toilets and outhouses: a Baltic epic
TBT#509 [ May 24, 2006 ]
It could be argued that the history of mankind is ...
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TBT#425 [ Sep 22, 2004 ]
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TBT#418 [ Aug 05, 2004 ]
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TBT#417 [ Jul 28, 2004 ]
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TBT#408 [ May 20, 2004 ]
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TBT#406 [ May 06, 2004 ]
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TBT#405 [ Apr 29, 2004 ]
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TBT#404 [ Apr 22, 2004 ]
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TBT#403 [ Apr 15, 2004 ]
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TBT#398 [ Mar 11, 2004 ]
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TBT#397 [ Mar 04, 2004 ]
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ADELAIDEPolkas, early waltzes, clap dancing and hi...
Many answers to the million-Lat question
TBT#302 [ Apr 11, 2002 ]
Because of their turbulent history, Latvians spend...
Unraveling the unrivaled mystery of Riga
TBT#301 [ Apr 04, 2002 ]
RIGACities are mysterious places. Think of Baudela...
Go directly to sleaze, do not pass morality
TBT#300 [ Mar 28, 2002 ]
The game of Monopoly is based on outdated concepts...
Landmark exhibition of Christianity in Lithuanian art
TBT#299 [ Mar 21, 2002 ]
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A courageous Latvian's lifetime march to NATO
TBT#298 [ Mar 14, 2002 ]
A lifetime's experience has made one Latvian u...
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TBT#297 [ Mar 07, 2002 ]
To conclude our three-part series of features abou...
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TBT#296 [ Feb 28, 2002 ]
In the second of a three-part feature, Timothy Jac...
The changing fashions of Lithuanian names
TBT#295 [ Feb 21, 2002 ]
In the first of a three-part feature, Rokas M. Tra...
Latvian mountain climbers ascend to new heights
TBT#294 [ Feb 14, 2002 ]
RIGA - It might seem strange that the first group ...
BVilnius gets new ballet school led by prima ballerina
TBT#293 [ Feb 07, 2002 ]
Leokadija Askeloviciute is one of Lithuania's ...
NGO Center helps Latvia help itself
TBT#293 [ Feb 07, 2002 ]
Some of the kids at Riga St. Nicholas Shelter know...
New musicians: not in it for the money
TBT#292 [ Jan 31, 2002 ]
Julie Vinten talked to three new Latvian bands abo...
Leadership with a smile comes to basketball country
TBT#291 [ Jan 24, 2002 ]
VILNIUS - Basketball is a national obsession in Li...
Estonian ice hockey to experience wave of revival
TBT#291 [ Jan 24, 2002 ]
TALLINN - Estonian ice hockey is about to see a ne...
At home with the president's Russian language teacher
TBT#290 [ Jan 17, 2002 ]
RIGA - It's a rare occasion indeed when you me...
New Baltic cinema - taking the first steps on unknown ground
TBT#289 [ Jan 10, 2002 ]
RIGA - It's no secret that Baltic cinema doesn...
Pagan or Christian, it's still a reason to celebrate
TBT#288 [ Dec 20, 2001 ]
RIGA, VILNIUS and TALLINN - Christmas traditions t...
Chinese students seek European experience in Estonia
TBT#287 [ Dec 13, 2001 ]
"East is East, and West is West, and the twain...
National orchestra has reason to celebrate
TBT#287 [ Dec 13, 2001 ]
The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra recently ...
Hanukkah - light the menorah for eight festive nights
TBT#286 [ Dec 06, 2001 ]
Before World War II, more than 100,000 Jews called...
Is it really eroticism or just neuroticism?
TBT#285 [ Nov 29, 2001 ]
RIGA - A life-size Arnold Schwarzenegger forearm d...
Giving comfort to Latvians in a strange land
TBT#285 [ Nov 29, 2001 ]
RIGA - The village of Lena lies deep in the Norweg...
Festival for pelican bluesmen of Alcatraz, Riga
TBT#284 [ Nov 22, 2001 ]
RIGA - A long time ago there was a thriving habita...
Legendary basketball team says, "Where's the dough?"
TBT#284 [ Nov 22, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - Government officials and representative...
Life and times in an Estonian corner of Italy
TBT#283 [ Nov 15, 2001 ]
MILAN - More than 60 years ago, Ernest Hemingway w...
Estonian grill masters win hearts and stomachs
TBT#282 [ Nov 08, 2001 ]
TALLINN - A six-member team of Estonian expert BBQ...
Proposed dams threaten endangered salmon
TBT#282 [ Nov 08, 2001 ]
STAICELE - The banks of the Salaca River, quietly ...
Artistic controversy erupts around president's memory
TBT#281 [ Nov 01, 2001 ]
RIGA - As parliamentary elections approach, Latvia...
When the Baltics thrilled the world
TBT#280 [ Oct 25, 2001 ]
An accomplishment is nothing to sniff at, whether ...
Hostage drama shakes locals' faith in Panevezys
TBT#279 [ Oct 18, 2001 ]
PANEVEZYS - For many it came as no surprise that t...
Forest in a basket
TBT#278 [ Oct 11, 2001 ]
RIGA - There is an old legend about early Latvians...
The voice of a nation preserves traditions
TBT#277 [ Oct 04, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - The name Veronika Povilioniene is one th...
Controversial monument millionaire reveals future plans
TBT#276 [ Sep 27, 2001 ]
RIGA - Jevgeny Gomberg has had a very high media p...
Methanol carnage grips resort town at summer's end
TBT#275 [ Sep 20, 2001 ]
PARNU - "The parents of my daughter's clas...
Relaxing sound of leather on willow heard in Baltics
TBT#274 [ Sep 13, 2001 ]
RIGA - In Riga's VEF Stadium on Sept. 2, a lei...
Autumnal equinox festivities start in capital
TBT#274 [ Sep 13, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - Riga is not the only city in the Baltics...
Depeche Mode tour Baltics substance-free
TBT#273 [ Sep 06, 2001 ]
RIGA - Thousands of people in the region flocked t...
Enthusiasts rush to help historic railway
TBT#273 [ Sep 06, 2001 ]
GULBENE - The whistle blows, carriages jolt and a ...
Summer's end means no pause in coffee revolution
TBT#272 [ Aug 30, 2001 ]
RIGA - With the summer soon over, Rigans will have...
Horses bring entertainment to middle class
TBT#272 [ Aug 30, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - The practical use of horses may easily b...
Charming melodies that lured Francis Goya
TBT#271 [ Aug 23, 2001 ]
TALLINN - To most people the music of Raimond Valg...
Who said the party was over? It's still on the last lap
TBT#271 [ Aug 23, 2001 ]
RIGA - The Riga 800 celebrations were long awaited...
It's the people who make the party
TBT#270 [ Aug 16, 2001 ]
RIGA - The entire city of Riga, together with most...
Experiencing the art of the Lithuanian sauna
TBT#269 [ Aug 09, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - Since coming to Lithuania in 1999, I'...
How a young man's initiative helped save a village
TBT#268 [ Aug 02, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - While life in Lithuania's urban cent...
Hare Krishnas cater for growing spiritual appetite
TBT#268 [ Aug 02, 2001 ]
RIGA - Take a stroll along Krisjana Barona Street ...
Estonia's fruitful friendship clan - a club for men only
TBT#267 [ Jul 26, 2001 ]
TALLINN - "It is around a table that friends u...
Lithuanians take to skies as flying season reaches peak
TBT#267 [ Jul 26, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - The summer months are finding Lithuania ...
When survival is a playground garden
TBT#266 [ Jul 19, 2001 ]
RIGA - Almost 70 percent of Latvia's inhabitan...
Safe sanctuary found for lucky few: Street children beg for love in daily fight for survival
TBT#265 [ Jul 12, 2001 ]
TALLINN - The number of street children in Tallinn...
Anarchists, nihilists and assassins Lithuania's greatest son is actually her despised, unknown daughter
TBT#264 [ Jul 05, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - Last month Simeon Borisov Saxe Colburg, ...
Happy ending to wartime love story
TBT#263 [ Jun 28, 2001 ]
TALLINN - As The Baltic Times reported in January ...
The mysterious riddle of the Riga mummy
TBT#263 [ Jun 28, 2001 ]
RIGA - Ancient Egypt, the land of the Nile Delta, ...
When a person who wants to live in Latvia cannot
TBT#262 [ Jun 21, 2001 ]
RIGA - If you visit Olaine Prison, don't expec...
One story of deportation to the death camps of Siberia
TBT#261 [ Jun 14, 2001 ]
In 1940, the U.S.S.R. invaded and occupied Latvia,...
Mobile ring tone mania invades streets
TBT#260 [ Jun 07, 2001 ]
RIGA - Nowadays, it seems, every single inhabitant...
Great wall of Riga attracts sports climbers
TBT#260 [ Jun 07, 2001 ]
RIGA - The largest artificial climbing surface eve...
Hands that can heal people, plants and cars
TBT#259 [ May 31, 2001 ]
TALLINN - Skeptics may grimace. But the truth that...
103.2 gives locals genuine alternative
TBT#258 [ May 24, 2001 ]
RIGA - Let's face it, if you're looking to...
Lukashenka polishes performance as election approaches
TBT#257 [ May 17, 2001 ]
MINSK - For retired head teacher Irina Petrenko th...
Frustration taken out on ball, not boss
TBT#256 [ May 10, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - There are many different ways to spend y...
Down at the love-trade hotel
TBT#256 [ May 10, 2001 ]
RIGA - What a bizarre feeling, mixed with a sense ...
Latvia trounces United States 2-0
TBT#255 [ May 03, 2001 ]
RIGA - Another Ice Hockey World Championships and ...
Hockey phenomenon may end soon
TBT#255 [ May 03, 2001 ]
RIGA - While Latvias hockey officials are lobbying...
How art and nation come together in Lithuania
TBT#254 [ Apr 26, 2001 ]
The nation-state is quite a recent phenomenon in t...
Editorial staff go cruising for bruising
TBT#253 [ Apr 19, 2001 ]
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Hiker sinks into wilds to help children
TBT#253 [ Apr 19, 2001 ]
RIGA - On April 17, a man named BJ Martin left Lat...
Island of bohemia
TBT#252 [ Apr 12, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - Most tourist guides to Vilnius either fo...
Diving with the jump masters
TBT#252 [ Apr 12, 2001 ]
TALLINN - "You feel the air right away, like a...
Milda kidnapped by terrorists
TBT#251 [ Apr 05, 2001 ]
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Ruins come alive to independence parade
TBT#251 [ Apr 05, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - For those of us who think of Andorra and...
Riga circus struggles through legal battle
TBT#249 [ Mar 22, 2001 ]
RIGA - With the crumbling red dome of Riga's h...
Watch out! Swindlers on the loose
TBT#248 [ Mar 15, 2001 ]
TALLINN - A bunch of tricksters is lurking to swin...
The Bharatnatyam dancer
TBT#248 [ Mar 15, 2001 ]
TALLINN - For 34-year-old Pille Roosi, "Art is...
From Russia with shrugs: The Russians in Russia have a few good things to say about their Baltic neighbors
TBT#247 [ Mar 08, 2001 ]
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Busy bee of charity brings villages back to life
TBT#246 [ Mar 01, 2001 ]
TALLINN - Nine years of hard social work, 130 proj...
Bye, bye ethics
TBT#245 [ Feb 22, 2001 ]
RIGA - "Women!" "Everywhere! Beautiful...
Tarzan: king of the capitalists
TBT#244 [ Feb 15, 2001 ]
The king may be dead, but Tarzan is alive and well...
Rare glimpse into a lost world
TBT#244 [ Feb 15, 2001 ]
RIGA - Lithuania Minor is a region most Lithuanian...
Busting the bad guys
TBT#152 [ Apr 01, 1999 ]
Public transportation in Riga provides the city wi...
Dribbling into Lithuania
TBT#152 [ Apr 01, 1999 ]
Basketball (krepsinis) is as much a religion for L...
Remembering a legacy of terror
TBT#152 [ Apr 01, 1999 ]
Josef Stalin, one of the century's most evil f...
A spoonful of sugar
TBT#152 [ Apr 01, 1999 ]
Pins, sugar medicines and massage treatment have m...
Theater's 13 saviors
TBT#152 [ Apr 01, 1999 ]
Riga's new Russian theater group gave its firs...
Killing spree claims its latest victim
TBT#243 [ Feb 08, 2001 ]
RIGA - As police officers and fire fighters broke ...
Estonia's craving for crime
TBT#151 [ Mar 25, 1999 ]
To get the scoop on one of the country's most ...
Breaking into Estonia
TBT#151 [ Mar 25, 1999 ]
"I just turned the key once and that's why...
Sailing around the world
TBT#151 [ Mar 25, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel sits down with two Latvian captains t...
Belarus: a pensioner's paradise
TBT#151 [ Mar 25, 1999 ]
Some old Lithuanians are becoming "New Belarus...
Swinging, swatting and sunning
TBT#151 [ Mar 25, 1999 ]
There was snow on the ground, but Latvians went ah...
Latvia's frequent flyer
TBT#151 [ Mar 25, 1999 ]
After turning his hobby into a business, Tahirs Is...
Come to where the neurosis is
TBT#150 [ Mar 18, 1999 ]
If you're bored by standard sun-and-fun destin...
Doctor of patience
TBT#150 [ Mar 18, 1999 ]
Before leaving his native Mexico, Juris Zagars was...
The freedom to blow Lithuania's horn
TBT#150 [ Mar 18, 1999 ]
On the heels of Lithuania's birthday celebrati...
Feminism with a Latvian twist
TBT#150 [ Mar 18, 1999 ]
How do Latvian feminists deal with male chauvinist...
Threading through Estonia's borderlands
TBT#149 [ Mar 11, 1999 ]
Black-clad dwarfs, travelling wallpaper shoppers a...
The bitter pill of war
TBT#149 [ Mar 11, 1999 ]
In the midst of the Karabakh War, Yerevand Jamhari...
Stalin's accidental gift to Latvia
TBT#149 [ Mar 11, 1999 ]
A lover of cars since before he could walk, Viktor...
Lithuanians kick their legs and click their heels
TBT#149 [ Mar 11, 1999 ]
Lithuania has found the perfect way to welcome spr...
The African beat that beckons
TBT#149 [ Mar 11, 1999 ]
On a month long trip to Gambia, Vineta Lagzdina re...
A nation's culture running out of steam
TBT#242 [ Feb 01, 2001 ]
As purse strings tighten, the arts are suffering f...
Passions run high over Tallinn mosque plans
TBT#242 [ Feb 01, 2001 ]
Controversial Azeri businessman Habib Guliyev inte...
Believing in a button
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
From the rooftops of Latvia, Katya Cengel reports ...
Far from an orphan
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Peace Corps volunteer Ed Greenwood was a little ne...
Stirring up the Milky Way
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Three days of sipping cocktails, mixing drinks and...
Racing on thin ice
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Warm weather kept the races off the lake, but Roka...
Ignalina: the closest place to Switzerland
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Mention Ignalina, most think nuclear meltdown. Act...
Latvians alight on dark continent
TBT#148 [ Mar 04, 1999 ]
Politicians speak about Latvia's "path to ...
IT ends five decades of solitude
TBT#241 [ Jan 25, 2001 ]
What could be a better present for a 90th birthday...
Big Brother has an eye on Tallinn
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
Even reserved Estonians get heated up when electio...
The never ending trip
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
Almost done with a two-year-long traveling stint, ...
Bar wars: Return of the yuppie
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
Forget the pork chops and boiled potatoes. The new...
Latvia's made for movie pine trees
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
What better place to open a new movie studio than ...
Scooby Doo English
TBT#147 [ Feb 25, 1999 ]
Gone are the days when those who learned English a...
Seven deadly sins
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
It all started with a joke. In the spring of 1996 ...
Little Roberto comes to Latvia
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel reports on the Italian opera singer w...
Freedom Monument fantasies
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
What do the guards at the Freedom Monument think a...
Polva's Exodus
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
As Estonian elections inch closer, Rebecca Santana...
No more Thursday fish days
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
An increase in variety has helped vegetarianism ga...
The farthest flung Latvians
TBT#146 [ Feb 18, 1999 ]
Thousands of Latvians living in Siberia like it th...
Lithuania marks its night of triumph
TBT#240 [ Jan 18, 2001 ]
VILNIUS - In January 1991, the Soviet army turned ...
Latvia remembers fight for freedom
TBT#240 [ Jan 18, 2001 ]
RIGA - Events to mark the 10th anniversary of the ...
Ghosts in Latvia's fastest graveyard
TBT#144 [ Feb 04, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel recently visited the bobsled and luge...
Faithful farmer
TBT#144 [ Feb 04, 1999 ]
"Do you know the latest?" Varis Kamergrauz...
When normal is abnormal
TBT#144 [ Feb 04, 1999 ]
I was shocked to find so many "normal" peo...
Helping Moscow orphans inside out
TBT#144 [ Feb 04, 1999 ]
The problems Russian orphans face receive a fair a...
Rebel without a pause
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
After cycling around the globe and defying the Sov...
Flaming across the sea
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
People come to the Baltics for all kinds of reason...
Flamenco fever heats up Estonian women
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
Estonia may be physically far from Spain but this ...
A look at Lithuania's 'little worlds'
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
It is not often one is able to see the character o...
A century and more under the round roof
TBT#143 [ Jan 28, 1999 ]
Riga's circus is celebrating its 110th anniver...
Riding the underpants express from Vilnius to Riga
TBT#239 [ Jan 11, 2001 ]
It's not murder on the Baltik Ekspress but und...
Latvian media on the rise
TBT#239 [ Jan 11, 2001 ]
RIGA - Over the past 18 months, Latvia has seen ma...
Lithuanians ride the road of EU education
TBT#142 [ Jan 21, 1999 ]
To celebrate the start of its six month EU preside...
The draw of Lithuania
TBT#142 [ Jan 21, 1999 ]
It's never easy to say good-bye. For Teresa Bo...
The dairy cow between the lines
TBT#142 [ Jan 21, 1999 ]
You've heard the pleas, you've seen the tr...
The Bible bug for the year 2000
TBT#142 [ Jan 21, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel reports on Latvian children who, rega...
Pilots rising high above the past
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
For thousands of years people have dreamed of flyi...
Pocket traveler
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
Every time readers thumb through "Tallinn in Y...
Pocket traveler
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
Every time readers thumb through "Tallinn in Y...
Samogitians find their home in Lithuania
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
In Western Lithuania there is a group of people wh...
When the boys came home
TBT#141 [ Jan 14, 1999 ]
When searching for someone who has been missing mo...
Clowning around Red Square
TBT#140 [ Jan 07, 1999 ]
Katya Cengel reports on how bad times in Moscow tu...
On the grapevine
TBT#140 [ Jan 07, 1999 ]
Anybody who has visited Latvia knows that the loca...
Bring on the cheese
TBT#140 [ Jan 07, 1999 ]
Three Americans from Wisconsin who packed their ba...
Tallinn's expatriate social architect
TBT#140 [ Jan 07, 1999 ]
John Morgan caught up with a social architect who ...
Your falling stars for the coming year
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
The Baltic's most esteemed and unethical astro...
Changing face of Advent
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
As the idea of Christmas catches on with more and ...
Rapping in Riga
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
How did a man born in Ghana, an American rap group...
Seeing in the new year, Russian style
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
During Soviet times, when Dec. 25 was nothing more...
Parallel worlds cross at Swedish conference
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
Katya Cengel reports on a conference that offered ...
Uniting in Lithuania
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
Raj Chaudhary, retired Wing Commander of the India...
Hanging stockings in Latvia and Lithuania
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
Imants Buss Although Buss has been living here for...
Fairy tales by candlelight
TBT#139 [ Dec 17, 1998 ]
A visit to the magic village of Rocca-al-Mare prov...
The best time to go to the cinema
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
The Black Nights film festival in Tallinn served u...
Talented in Tallinn
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
Viido Polikarpus is a man of many talents. An illu...
Making movies out of nightmares
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
A film trilogy by Assi Dayan coupled with the dire...
Vodka, with some assembly required
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
Many of the things worth bragging about in life co...
Seafarer finds her feet in Tallinn
TBT#138 [ Dec 10, 1998 ]
Denise Albrighton caught up with an Estonian-Canad...
Live and losing it in Lithuania
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
Drunken DJs, swearing news anchors and crawling ge...
Singing Latvia's praises
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
I just want you to know we've done this before...
Shalom club provides necessary shove
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
It's got its hands full with the peace process...
Holiday wish list
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
For all those seasonal Santas, Katya Cengel report...
UNICEF cards that help out
TBT#137 [ Dec 03, 1998 ]
As UNICEF begins another season of card sales, Dan...
Santa, bring me a mobile!
TBT#238 [ Dec 21, 2000 ]
TALLINN - Most Estonian residents are eager to get...
A traditional Lithuanian Christmas
TBT#238 [ Dec 21, 2000 ]
VILNIUS - For Lithuanians, Christmas Eve is the mo...
First Lady gives kids a Christmas
TBT#238 [ Dec 21, 2000 ]
VILNIUS - The wife of Lithuania's president, ...
Thanks, Mr. Gorbachov
TBT#136 [ Nov 26, 1998 ]
A roofer turned priest helps former prisoners make...
One country at a time
TBT#136 [ Nov 26, 1998 ]
Unless a foreigner spends a considerable amount of...
Hunting for the hero of Red October
TBT#136 [ Nov 26, 1998 ]
Before the movie, he risked everything for freedom...
Latvians toast freedom, freeze toes
TBT#136 [ Nov 26, 1998 ]
From fraternity marches to fireworks, Latvia's...
Report from hopelessness
TBT#237 [ Dec 14, 2000 ]
This conversation might be regarded as a particula...
Journey to the land of the Eurocrats
TBT#134 [ Nov 12, 1998 ]
The pilgrimage to the EU follows a dark and stormy...
Armed to the hilt on Estonian streets?
TBT#134 [ Nov 12, 1998 ]
Crime may be on the rise in Estonia but it is noth...
Magician or musician?
TBT#134 [ Nov 12, 1998 ]
From the studios of Los Angeles to the streets of ...
Still a Lada love in Lithuania
TBT#134 [ Nov 12, 1998 ]
The nouveau riche of Lithuania may be cruising in ...
Nude is not a four-letter word for these porn-brokers
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
Far from seeing anything dirty in their profession...
Exiles have a maul in Riga
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
As business picks up and the Baltics become more w...
Rugby's rough ride in Estonia
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
Believe it or not, Estonia is the only Eastern Eur...
Making displaced women feel at home
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
If women ran the world, Czech author Milan Kundera...
Paws for thought
TBT#121 [ Aug 13, 1998 ]
Conventional wisdom has it that Estonians are a qu...
Latvia without amber-colored glasses
TBT#120 [ Aug 06, 1998 ]
Aldis Tilens' curiosity about his Latvian root...
Pancakes for the present, pancakes for the past
TBT#120 [ Aug 06, 1998 ]
There are only a handful of places that symbolize ...
A crowning good-bye
TBT#120 [ Aug 06, 1998 ]
Before pulling out of Latvia, a group of British c...
Few memories, lots of attention
TBT#120 [ Aug 06, 1998 ]
The newspapers billed it as a rehabilitation camp ...
Circus court battle could bring the house down
TBT#236 [ Dec 07, 2000 ]
Behind the fruit machines and news kiosks that lin...
Nuclear threat off northeastern border
TBT#236 [ Dec 07, 2000 ]
Just 100 km from the northeastern border of Estoni...
Can Lithuania become a Baltic Tiger?
TBT#235 [ Nov 30, 2000 ]
In the last decade, the economic success of the Re...
Life in the slow track
TBT#234 [ Nov 23, 2000 ]
As Latvia's larger cities become wealthier the...
Dreaming of horses and green grass
TBT#233 [ Nov 16, 2000 ]
According to official estimates, there are 8,165 G...
Karate drop kicks its way into Lithuania
TBT#135 [ Nov 19, 1998 ]
Making up for time lost under Soviet repression, m...
Breaking through cultural boundaries
TBT#135 [ Nov 19, 1998 ]
The word "volunteer" has had a bad rap in ...
Baltic Sea identity
TBT#135 [ Nov 19, 1998 ]
The inaugural Rauma Biennale Balticum in 1985 was ...
A picture perfect village
TBT#135 [ Nov 19, 1998 ]
It emerged from the debris of World War II and is ...
Eskimo trees and dangerous ABCs
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Collector and linguist Juris Cibuls offers a fresh...
Lithuanian raja
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Raj Chaudhary, a 61-year-old retired Wing Commande...
It's not New Orleans, but it's definitely Jazz
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Paul Beckman reports on the tunes that filtered in...
Baltic notes, not rain, travel to France
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Jacqueline Karp Gendre recalls a delightful evenin...
A guitarist for all seasons
TBT#133 [ Nov 05, 1998 ]
Baldi Olier gave Latvia and Estonia a taste of the...
Competition or advertising campaign?
TBT#232 [ Nov 09, 2000 ]
Following the pedophilia scandal connected to the ...
Building a better body
TBT#232 [ Nov 09, 2000 ]
You are probably wrong thinking the Internet is mo...
The man who tuned up Lithuanian music
TBT#132 [ Oct 29, 1998 ]
Paul Beckman reports on a music man in Lithuania w...
Transported Andersons
TBT#132 [ Oct 29, 1998 ]
Although he is in the business of transporting peo...
The road to Latvia
TBT#132 [ Oct 29, 1998 ]
Gypsies have been a part of Europe ever since they...
Home on the abandoned military base
TBT#132 [ Oct 29, 1998 ]
A visit to Paldiski has been described as a nostal...
In search of a king: Tallinn's pizza contest
TBT#231 [ Nov 02, 2000 ]
"It's a pizza on steroids!" American e...
Anglicans help to restore Tallinn church
TBT#231 [ Nov 02, 2000 ]
The Anglican community in Estonia is leading the f...
Weird spins in a changing world
TBT#131 [ Oct 22, 1998 ]
El Nino, Russia on its knees, Latvians making sens...
A dancer's itchy feet
TBT#131 [ Oct 22, 1998 ]
It was time for a change. For New York-based dance...
Lithuania's spiritual ambassador to the East
TBT#131 [ Oct 22, 1998 ]
Disgusted by the deterioration of Western culture,...
Feed the world
TBT#131 [ Oct 22, 1998 ]
Think of Riga and Hare Krishna probably is not the...
You've come a long way, Baby!
TBT#130 [ Oct 15, 1998 ]
Estonia, known for its beautiful but reserved wome...
Schoolhouse Rock