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16 July 2008. Out and about...

01varvara wrote 3 days ago: Russian ISS-17 crew completes second spacewalk Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononeko, … more »

Tags: Business, Christian, Contemporary, Economy, History, Martyrs, moscow patriarchate, Orthodox life, Patriotic

A Barrier has been Breached

01varvara wrote 4 days ago: This is slightly off-topic, but, not by much. Today, on foreign-exchange markets, the US dollar fel … more »

Tags: Russian, Contemporary, Politics, the Ukraine, USA, Economy

2 July 2008. Out and About...

01varvara wrote 2 weeks ago: Monument to Dmitri Ganin installed in Estonia Funeral of the hero-martyr Dmitri Ganin (1987-2007) o … more »

Tags: Contemporary, Diplomacy, History, military, Patriotic, Politics, Russian, Voice of Russia

Russia and Belarus Condemned Revisionists of World War II History

01varvara wrote 3 weeks ago: President Dmitri Medvedev (1965- ) (left) and President Aleksandr Lukashenko (1954- ) of Belarus at … more »

Tags: Contemporary, History, Patriotic, Politics, Russian, the Ukraine, Voice of Russia

Human Rights Record of the Baltic States to Top Russian-European Agenda

01varvara wrote 4 weeks ago: The Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. Extremist Estonian nationalists in the government impiously dug up t … more »

Tags: Contemporary, Diplomacy, Politics, Russian, Voice of Russia

The MP deems as a Hostile Act the EP’s Decision to Consecrate New Bishops in Estonia

01varvara wrote 1 month ago: Cathedral of St Aleksandr Nevsky in Tallinn (Estonia), the mother-church of the canonical Estonian … more »

Tags: Christian, Contemporary, Ecumenical Patriarchate, INTER-ORTHODOX RELATIONS, Interfax, moscow patriarchate, Orthodox life, Religious, Russian

18 June 2008. A Shot of Culture, if you please...

01varvara wrote 1 month ago: Main Prize of the Kinotavr Russian Film Festival goes to the movie Schultes The Main Prize of the 19 … more »

Tags: Architecture, Art & Music, China, Cinema, Contemporary, Cultural, Fine Arts, intellectual, Music

10 June 2008. Out and About...

01varvara wrote 1 month ago: Russia’s first-quarter foreign trade is up 31 percent over the same period in 2007 Russia’s fir … more »

Tags: Business, Christian, Contemporary, dmitri medvedev, Economy, Fine Arts, Orthodox hierarchs, Orthodox life, Patriarch Aleksei Rediger

Amnesty International Calls on Estonia to Stop Discrimination against Russian-Speakers

01varvara wrote 1 month ago: A street scene in the Old City section of Tallinn Unemployment among Russian speakers in Estonia is … more »

Tags: Contemporary, Diplomacy, Politics, Russian, Voice of Russia

iPhone rollout: TeliaSonera deal brings total to 67 countries9 comments

Philip Elmer-DeWitt wrote 1 month ago: You can finally color Scandinavia and the Baltic States Apple red. The news came Tuesday morning in … more »

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Nordic States, TeliaSonera

Estonia Uses GPS and Google Earth to Organize Nationwide Trash Pick-Up!1 comment

Clark wrote 2 months ago: On yesterday’s program, our man in the Baltics, Cyrus Farivar, filed a piece on Estonia’ … more »

Tags: the World, BBC, what we're working on, WGBH, pri, Estonia, flickr, Google, Google Earth

The Nashi intruders face the music in Lithuania, got sentenced 65 days in detention each

Ruslanas Iržikevičius wrote 6 months ago: This blog mentioned that the Lithuanian border guards detained two Nashi activists who validated the … more »

Tags: Politics, Lithuania, Russia, Northern Europe, Latvia, Estonia, Totalitarian regimes, Finland

Lithuanian Seimas restricted conditions of dual citizenship4 comments

Ruslanas Iržikevičius wrote 4 days ago: As the BNS reported, on 15 July, Seimas supported the presidential veto and dismissed the Citizenshi … more »

Tags: EU, Lithuania, Northern Europe, USA

Missile defence system, did Lithuanians betrayed Poland?2 comments

Ruslanas Iržikevičius wrote 3 weeks ago: Probably most of you heard about the anti-missile defence plan for Europe.  In short anti-missile r … more »

Tags: Central Europe, Lithuania, Northern Europe, Poland, Politics, Russia, USA

June 14, 1940. Why the Russians should apologies?11 comments

Ruslanas Iržikevičius wrote 1 month ago: 67 years ago, in June 14 1940 the Soviets began the massive Deportations of Lithuanians to Siberia. … more »

Tags: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Northern Europe, Politics, Russia, Totalitarian regimes

Lithuanian Seimas committee proposes allowing dual citizenship for countrymen with NATO passports11 comments

Ruslanas Iržikevičius wrote 1 month ago: One of the issues relevant only to Lithuania is widely discussed in the world.  Due to a large Lith … more »

Tags: Great Britain, Lithuania, Northern Europe, Norway, USA

The Czech Football Fed apologised to the Lithuanians3 comments

Ruslanas Iržikevičius wrote 1 month ago: As the BNS informed the Czech-Moravia Football Federation officially apologized to the Lithuanian Fo … more »

Tags: Central Europe, Latvia, Lithuania, Northern Europe

Lithuania completed creation of energy Co Leo LT1 comment

Ruslanas Iržikevičius wrote 1 month ago: A deal to establish the Lithuanian Electricity Organization (Leo LT) was completed May 27.   The Li … more »

Tags: Economics, Energy, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Northern Europe, Poland, Politics, Scandinavia

Lithuania drops five places on global competitiveness scoreboard5 comments

Ruslanas Iržikevičius wrote 2 months ago: As the BNS reported Lithuania has dropped five places, year-on-year, to rank 36th, on the 2008 globa … more »

Tags: Economics, Lithuania, Northern Europe


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