How the Children of Baltic Refugees to Britain are Rediscovering their Roots
"When my grandfather died, my father stopped speaking Latvian... he had no-one to speak to"Continue Reading →
DB Under the Radar: Ķemeri, Latvia
"Its medicinal water attracted thousands of tourists from all over the Russian Empire, thereby warranting the town a direct train line to Moscow"Continue Reading →
Long Hair and Bell-Bottoms Behind the Iron Curtain: Soviet Hippies
"A record was a holy thing that would go from hand to hand, recorded over and over on reel tapes."Continue Reading →
ЛАЙФ V КАЙФ or How to Trip in the Soviet Union
The Estonian director Terje Toomistu, who has recently completed a documentary about the hippie movement in the Soviet Union, writes about drug culture behind the Iron Curtain.Continue Reading →
Stephan Collishaw: Turning Lithuania's Troubled Past into Fiction
British author Stephan Collishaw has been closely involved with Lithuania since moving there on a whim in the mid-'90s.Continue Reading →