Monday—February 28, 2005 Russia condemns Berezovsky’s Latvia visit The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Latvia for not placing Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky under arrest when he visited Riga last Friday. Berezovsky is wanted for fraud in Russia and is on the Interpol lis...

Friday—April 15, 2005 A few billion here, a few billion there For the years 2007-2013, the European Union budget allocates 80 billion kroons (approx. 5 billion euros) of support funds for Estonia. Women in Latvia have no obstacles in business 150 out of 207 Latvian businesswomen surveye...

Monday—March 21, 2005 Estonia's longest advertisement Scott Diel, City Paper's Editor-in-Chief, has published a short story in the April issue of Gray's Sporting Journal. Gray's contributors have included novelists such as Annie Proulx, David Guterson, Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison, Janisse Ray...

Coke cashes in by producing a nostalgic, Soviet-era drink. By J. Michael Lyons Vyacheslav Shamarin doesn’t like what mass-production has done to kvas, a cloudy brown yeast concoction that was a favorite soft drink in Latvia and elsewhere across the Soviet empire during communist rule. L...

By Benjamin Smith As if in a deliberate cosmic insult to Karl Marx, communism’s iconic color has been transmuted here into a symbol of electronic commerce. We’re not talking just any kind of red. Not maroon or pinkish. The color Kaur Kender was looking for recently was the “dirty, yellow...