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Estonia must learn from the mistakes of Latvia
Estonia should take into account mistakes of its neighbor Latvia to avoid the liquidity crisis, i.e. further cut spending, trim wages and use ...
 
Estonia backs '09 budget, bigger deficit woes seen
TALLINN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Estonia's parliament on Wednesday passed a 2009 budget with a small deficit, but a senior parliamentarian said the ...
 
Obama lines up Gore as environment chief
From the London Standard:

Paul Thompson in Miami
09.12.08

AL GORE was today in private talks with president-elect Barack Obama amid ...
 
Anticrisis measures in Latvia
There used to be an old Soviet-era joke, that all Estonia needed was just one day of independence. We could then declare war on Finland, and promptly ...
 
Ilves on recent history
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves participated in the final conference of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against ...
 
Nõukogude naine (3)
The other day, an acquaintance dropped off a batch of newspapers and magazines, including a treasure trove of old copies of the Estonian woman's ...
 
A Hole in the Ground Erupts, to Estonia’s Delight
ELLEN BARRY
Published: December 8, 2008 in the New York Times


TUHALA, Estonia — All day, people crunched through the frost-encrusted ...
 
Raid of the Memorial Research and Information Center in St Petersburg
The recent raid of the Memorial Research and Information Center in St Petersburg is an alarming and disturbing event. Organizations such as Amnesty ...
 
A wise diplomat in troubled times
Aleksei Makarkin, December 05, 2008

(RFE/RL) - Aleksy II has already gone down in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church as the patriarch who ...
 
McCreevy: Irish No should be respected
Irish EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy has argued that the negative result of his country's referendum on Europe's Lisbon treaty should be ...
 
Who will be Russia's next Patriarch? (7)
VIENNA, December 6 – Even before Aleksii II is laid to rest, Russians are speculating as to who will be selected as his successor. Most ...
 
Red hot lies (1)
Rob Lyons

You’re a corporate lawyer who has got a new job doing government relations with an energy company. You would expect to be battling to ...
 
Latvia: Bridge Collapse
TRANSITIONS ONLINE -The government's recent takeover of a major Latvian bank dealt a
blow to the country's ambitions to act as a regional ...
 
The dangers of 'business as usual' with Russia
EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - With EU-Russia talks now resuming, it appears that the European Union's Council and the European Commission are not ...
 
On Toronto's plastic bag fee (6)
To the Editor:

The best and most permanent changes come from shifts in mindset. We began our reusable bag company in New York City in 1989 and, ...
 
Just in time for holiday shopping
BalticShop’s newsletter is back! Below are some items that have recently been added to our website along with some customer favorites. Our winter ...
 
Overthrow of a minority government
A comedy and tragedy of errors

It started last week when Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in his infinite wisdom, decided to cut off public funding ...
 
Patriarch's passing creates serious problems for Moscow (3)
VIENNA - December 5. The death of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksii II announced earlier today creates serious problems both for the church he ...
 
The worm turns
A cyber-attack alarms the Pentagon
EDWARD LUCAS

BATTLEFIELD bandwidth is low at best, making networks sticky and e-mails tricky. American ...
 
OSCE avoids the hard issues at year-end conference
Vladimir Socor

In common with all OSCE chairmanships since 2003 (when Russian veto power mauled the organization irreparably during the Dutch ...
 
If things go wrong In Russia, who will take the blame? (1)
Vitaliy Portnikov

(RFE/RL) – "Lenin answers all questions." For Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, these words from a poem every ...
 
Estonia participated in Adriatic Charter enlargement
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet participated in the enlargement ceremony of the USA-Adriatic Charter today, 4 December.
 
Estonia not to sign cluster bomb treaty
TALLINN (TBT) - The Estonian Defense Ministry has announced that the country will not sign the highly publicized treaty on the abolishment of ...
 
The Cross of Liberty and the Monument to the War of Independence in Tallinn
(The Estonian Foreign Ministry has posted the following Fact Sheet on their website, click on http://www.vm.ee/eng/kat_509/10420.html , or read on ...
 
IHRC to Offer 2009-2010 Graduate Fellowships For Estonian, Latvian and Arab American Studies
The Immigration History Research Center will award fellowships in 2009-2010 of up to $15,000 to University of Minnesota graduate students making use ...
 
Europe must talk with Moscow but not resume 'business as usual,' rights groups say
VIENNA, December 3 – Seventeen leading Russian human rights groups have called on the European Union not to go back to "business as ...
 
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