The "New Russian Empire" and the Baltic States: an Interview with Agnia Grigas
"Moscow has long relied on ethnic politics to achieve their aims of weakening and destabilizing their neighbours or newly conquered territories."Continue Reading →
"Kas ir Hipsteri?" – Changing Times in a Small Latvian City
Cēsis has changed rather a lot in the last few years, probably more than any other single town in Latvia, and the best place to get the measure of these…Continue Reading →
"I Want To Stay Here": A Chat with Gambian Jallo in Latvian
"I can’t speak about the future, but I think that there is a lot that I will be able to give to Latvia."Continue Reading →
Discussing Identity and Minorities in an Estonian Border City, Pt. 2
Narva is a particularly interesting place to discuss minorities and identy, being more overwhelmingly minority-majority than any large city in the Baltics.Continue Reading →
Discussing Identity and Minorities in an Estonian Border City
Narva is a particularly interesting place to discuss minorities and identy, being more overwhelmingly minority-majority than any large city in the Baltics.Continue Reading →
Latvia's Oil City Ventspils: A Strange "Success Story"
Frequently, in discussions with people about the depopulation and decline of their town, they will point to Ventspils as an example of what could be done.Continue Reading →
"To Gain Knowledge, Go to Wilne": A Walk Through Jewish Vilnius
In the 18th century the city was known as a religious centre and even called the “Jerusalem of the North”, despite anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish attacks.Continue Reading →
The Meaning of a Memorial: Reading Kaunas’s Garden of War
Looking at the site of memory in Kaunas, the “dying for…” is clear: the highest aim of the Lithuanian nation is freedomContinue Reading →
Era of Dance: How Riga Brought Techno Music to the Soviet Union
A new Latvian/Russian documentary film tells the story of how the techno explosion of the '80s was brought to the Soviet Union - via RigaContinue Reading →
Kaunas Art Deco: Reminders of Lithuania's Modernist Interwar Capital
"Kaunas’ Art Deco interwar modern architecture is unique to Kaunas, because it’s not a direct copy of French or German architecture."Continue Reading →
Kristaps Salniņš: The Spy Who Stuttered
Salniņš left behind him a history of derring-do that would defy belief, except for the fact that it was all trueContinue Reading →