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 →
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 →
"I realise just now that this story about the sleigh in the winter could have happened in the 19th century as well as the 20th, and for some perhaps it…Continue Reading →
