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Inconvenient truths (7)
Why mediocrity flourishes and will only thrive further

Edward Lucas

Political freedom means that rulers tremble when voters grumble. Fine. But ...
 
Street scenes
Moldova’s crackdown, like Georgia’s standoff, leaves protesters fuming

Edward Lucas

Idealistic youngsters demanding their country’s ...
 
Ansip shows optimism about the development of Estonian economy
Juhan Tere, BC, Tallinn, 16.04.2009.
Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip during an interview for Estonian radio broadcast showed some reasonable ...
 
Estonian tourism decreases
TALLINN (TBT) - Estonia’s tourist numbers have dropped 15 percent in the last year as visitors from Finland, Russia and Germany have decreased. The ...
 
Moscow Patriarchate pushes for Orthodox group in European Parliament (3)
VIENNA, April 16 – The representative of the Moscow Patriarchate to European institutions in Brussels has called for the organization of an ...
 
The rest of the story... (2)
Kristopher Rikken, Blue, Black and White Alert

Why am I upset about the deportation (now on hold again) of John Demjanjuk? Besides, of course, the ...
 
Baltic countries must cut deficits, prepare for euro, EBRD says
Agnes Lovasz

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia must pare their budget deficits to stay on track to adopt the euro, said ...
 
The First Lady’s Foundation of the President’s Cultural Foundation and Nordea Bank Estonia will initiate a Young Athlete’s Prize
15 Apr 2009
The First Lady’s Foundation of the President’s Cultural Foundation and Nordea Bank Estonia will sign a cooperation agreement on ...
 
Estonia to support businessmen abroad
Juhan Tere, BC, Tallinn, 14.04.2009

Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Paet confirmed his wish to ease the life of Estonian businessmen ...
 
Bird Droppings from Estonia: Handel’s Messiah in Eesti (2)
April 12 - I have just returned from a very spring-like Handel’s Messiah. What a joy it was! I have seen many Messies in my time but I am tempted ...
 
Beneath the U.S. obsession with Cuba
George Friedman

The Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), a group vehemently opposed to the Cuban government, came out in favor of easing the ...
 
Window on Eurasia: Moscow Hopes to Use Russian Diasporas to Influence Other Countries
Paul Goble
Vienna, April 5 - Moscow hopes to use all those who trace their ancestry to Russia but who are now living abroad as its ...
 
The New Atheists' Easter message? 'Grow up or die' (6)
Brendan O'Neill
Religulous, Bill Maher's religion-baiting documentary, confirms what modern atheists hate most about religion: its ...
 
"Weimar" - like threat justifies Moscow's authoritarianism, Russia's Chief Justice says
VIENNA, April 9 – Valery Zorkin, the head of the Russian Constitutional Court, said that governments like Russia’s are justified in using ...
 
HIIGELBASAAR XX IS GEARING UP
for the big sale on Saturday May 2, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For the 20th year in a row, the organizing committee of HIIGELBASAAR is counting on the ...
 
Why 100,000 EU residents won't get to vote for MEPs - and why it's not a big deal
Andrei Tuch, Apr 8th, 2009

Early this week, a mob of young Moldovans crushed police barricades to wreak havoc in government buildings. Before ...
 
Gazprom opens first European office in Riga
(TBT) RIGA- Gazprom has opened its first European office in Riga. The company expressed interest in Latvia due to the important energy projects in ...
 
Estonian Institute of Economic Research: companies to achieve growth in sales by lowering prices
Juhan Tere, BC,

Those companies able to lower their prices are thus able to increase their turnover, Marje Josing, the head of Estonian Institute ...
 
Still afloat in the Baltic, just
The three Baltic economies face a spiralling economic downturn

Edward Lucas

TALLINN - Once the fastest-growing economies in Europe, the ...
 
Leave no stone turned
Microstates flourish because big countries need them

Edward Lucas

Rich and powerful people in Russia and Ukraine clearly find the ...
 
Estonian Central Register of Securities: pseudo-liquidation—the new trend
Sirley Salk, Baltic Business News

It is becoming a trend in Estonia to pseudo-liquidate a business so that the owners would get away from ...
 
Baltics in the Spotlight
From WNET.ORG/Channel THIRTEEN in New York:

The week of April 6, Worldfocus, the nightly international news program shown nationally on public ...
 
Dr. Vares (33)
I've been doing a little research on the so-called "June communists" - the puppet government of Estonian literary men and ...
 
IMF backs implementation of euro for Central and Eastern Europe
Nina Kolyako, BC
The International Monetary Fund wants crisis-hit EU nations in central and eastern Europe to adopt the euro without formally ...
 
President Ilves to compatriots living abroad: continue to be your homeland's ambassadors (1)
At the Estonian World Council held in Tallinn on April 3rd, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves acknowledged the central role of this organisation, which ...
 
Obama lukewarm on Europe missile base plan
Andrew Rettman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - US President Barack Obama gave no clear commitment to building missile defence bases in Europe during a ...
 
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