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In his book Baltic: The Future of Europe, Oliver Moody makes the case that the innovation and resilience displayed by the countries bordering the Baltic Sea have a lot to teach those of us further west
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Europe's widest waterfall is in a small town in Latvia.
Venta Rapid stretches about 800 feet across, but drops only six feet.
Visit Kuldīga in the spring and you might catch fish jumping up the falls on their way upstream.
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After a long day yesterday I accidentally took the wrong tube line home. Cursing my luck I lifted my eyes to see…
a poem by a beloved Estonian author Jaan Kaplinski - Only at dusk do eyes really begin to see.
So here’s to small miracles restoring our faith in the world. 🇪🇪❤️🇬🇧
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The battered tombs of great worthies of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in the Bernardine Church in Vilnius; one belongs to Stanisław ‘the Pious’ Radziwiłł (d. 1599), a son of Mikołaj ‘the Black’ who became a Catholic - a marker of the passing of Protestant Lithuania
"The “end of history” sounds like a ludicrous proposition from the perspective of the current generation of elites in the Baltic states, who have been through exactly the opposite of that"
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Today in Bari, I unveiled a memorial relief dedicated to Bona Sforza – a remarkable figure who connects Lithuania and Italy.
As Grand Duchess of Lithuania, she played an important role in my country in the 16th century, advancing Renaissance culture, state governance, and economic development.
Our historic ties are a strong foundation for building an even closer partnership between Lithuania and Italy today.
"It’s calm in the eye of a cyclone. Some larger cyclones have eyes as wide as the Suwałki Gap itself: 65 kilometres in diameter."
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My understanding - foundations laid by European success of national teams in the '30s
Then in Lithuania esp Žalgiris Kaunas became a permissible outlet for nationalist sentiment, in matches against Russian teams
The USSR team that won Olympic gold in 1988 was mostly Lithuanians
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€4 million apartment sale highlights Tallinn's changing housing market
#Estonia
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Paid homage this afternoon to MK #Ciurlionis, composer and artist in #Lithuania.
Nous lui avons rendu hommage cet après-midi à MK Čiurlionis, compositeur et artiste.
👉 learn more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikalo…
In the Suwałki Gap – a narrow span of NATO territory linking Poland with the Baltic states – Polish and Lithuanian history overlaps, and the peace and serenity is overwhelming
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With almost all votes counted, Latvians have given a rare landslide to the United List of Andris Kulbergs.
Of most interest to international followers:
Kulbergs is very pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO, pro-Europe. He’s clear that Ukraine must win, not merely survive, and that Europe must step up to ensure its security. The government has already committed Latvia to spending at least 5% of GDP on defence, while deepening defence cooperation with Ukraine to ensure it is spent on more of the right stuff.
The former automotive executive only entered Latvia’s Saeima (parliament) at the last election and became PM just four months ago. He has now secured the largest vote share since the restoration of independence.
Graphic from @lsmlv, which also reports in English for international folk who want to keep following: eng.lsm.lv
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What happened to class, labor and inequality after the fall of the Soviet Union?
My new book revisits Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania’s transitions — from Soviet rule and the 1991 revolutions to neoliberal restructuring and the rise of the far right in times of war.
Out in March!
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This was a difference between the Crown of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; literary Polish took off in Poland, but in Lithuania Latin remained the most popular literary language until the c18th - even though most of the people writing it spoke Polish as their vernacular
Mikołaj Rej died on this day in 1569, having spent his career on a genuinely radical idea for the time:
He wrote exclusively in Polish, not Latin.
Rej's remembered as the father of Polish literature for that stubbornness. Somebody had to go first, after all 📜
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The English version of my piece for Satori – what does the behaviour and popularity of new British PM Andy Burnham and new Latvian PM Andris Kulbergs say about where politics may be going for all of us, despite the huge differences between our countries?
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After landslide victories for new and minor parties in Bulgaria and Hungary earlier this year, Latvians elect their national parliament this Saturday.
The AS alliance (ECR) has been rising rapidly in the Europe Elects polling average in recent weeks.
Explore: europeelects.eu/latvia/
