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 →
Gatis Krūmiņš: Debunking Myths of Soviet Investment in the Baltics
Krūmiņš's calculations appear to show that, actually, Latvia – in common with all of the Baltic states – was a net contributor to the Soviet budgetContinue Reading →
Frontnieki: the Formation of the Latvian National Communists Who Challenged Moscow
Who exactly were these national communists and how did they form a faction that presented the greatest challenge to Soviet Centre-periphery relations in the post-war era?Continue Reading →
How Baltic Refugees Returned from North American Exile to Lead their Countries
“My parents fled terror in Estonia in World War Two, which is why I have this accent.”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 →