by Vincent Hunt Twenty years passed. Latvians held senior jobs in the Soviet regime in economic planning, the military, in the arts and in the security police. Their homeland was…Continue Reading →
In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish controlContinue Reading →
The project Baltic Borders, led by photographer and videographer Sami Siva, results from a period of fieldwork in 2021 and 2022 along the eastern borders of Estonia and Latvia. The…Continue Reading →
In 1918, the Baltic was ablaze with a range of conflicting polities. All along the littoral, a plethora of factions staged a bloody and vicious conflict for control of the…Continue Reading →
A chance discovery deep in a Belarusian forest gave a glimpse into the extinct Baltic language YotvingianContinue Reading →
In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish control
The project Baltic Borders, led by photographer and videographer Sami Siva, results from a period of fieldwork in 2021 and…
"Now the time has come to bring back the forgotten reality to its deserved place... to understand that life here…
"Rock did very little to change anything in Cold-War Europe – jeans and hairstyles excepted. It was jazz, not rock,…
A roundtable discussion was held about monumental painting, its possibilities and future place, drawing on their personal experience
Ričardas Gavelis was one of Lithuania's best-known writers of recent decades, with a caustic and satirical vision that seems to…
Industrial heritage is part of our cultural patrimony, helping us to reach a broader understanding of history and the development…
Latgalian homebrew is known by many names, and its history reveals many of the things that set this region apart
"I undertook this journey with the aim of seeing what was left of that famous human chain on the ground"
Estonia's capital hosted the sailing events for the 1980 Olympics, leading to a burst in construction
A famously pungent Latvian spirit has found an appreciative audience on a tiny Danish island
Somehow, this display has affected me more than all the statues I’ve seen in city centres all over the world,…
"They went through the circles of hell in their childhood, and maybe that is why it was so difficult to…
Vilnius University Press's "Mythical Creatures in Europe" map collects creatures from every corner of the continent
"Searching for solutions on a large scale, he didn’t find any on the small scale. That’s pretty usual among people."
"When Trump ascended to the US presidency I started looking more about what the division of the world into the…
"We can be proud that we have these in Lithuania, because in Western Europe these were already gone a hundred…
North Estonian came to dominate in the 19th century and became the basis for modern standard Estonian, while South Estonian…
