Thursday—January 27, 2005 Rüütel and Putin: who said what when and where? Estonian president Arnold Rüütel said he had to give a lot of interviews right after his two-hour January 20th meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Whether Putin talked about annulling Molotov-Ribbentrop p...

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...

A CITY PAPER interview with the leader singer of the Latvian band BrainStorm, Renars Kaupers. More than one local band has dreamed about it, but virtually none has actually succeeded in breaking into pop music markets beyond Baltic borders—except, that is, Latvia’s BrainStorm. In recent...