An exclusive CITY PAPER interview with Johnny Logan. If there was ever anyone who personified the Song Contest, at least in the eyes of committed Eurovision watchers, it’s Johnny Logan. The Irishman is, hands down, the most successful participant in its 45-year history. He’s won Eurovi...

In one of his last acts as president, Lennart Meri marked the 60th year since he and thousands of other people across the Baltic states were deported by Soviet forces. By Michael Tarm Two twelve-year-old friends sat on separate prison trains 60 years ago peering out barbed-wire windows and ...

Growth, GDP per capita, Inflation, Unemployment, Wages, Trade, Investment Annual GDP Growth Around the time of the Soviet collapse, Baltic economies were in free-fall. In 1992, all three were registering breathtakingly dismal growth figures of between -15 to -30 percent. But thanks to impres...

In the 1980s, during Soviet rule, Estonia had a thriving underground band scene—with punk/progressive bands like Propeller, Ruja and In Spe. Sadly, this scene went from underground to near oblivion when Euro pop butted in and took over. One group running against the Euro grain is Echosilence...

The once seemingly impossible dream of Baltic European Union membership is now in the bag. One word, “Yes!”, filled the entire front page of Estonia’s Postimees newspaper the day after the country passed its referendum in September, 2003. Latvians popped champagne corks a week later when...