News Highlights from November 22—November 29, 1999 * Latvian police on November 24 arrested a retired security official for participating in Soviet repressions in the 1940s, part a long-running drive here to bring Stalinist-era agents to trial. Vassily Kirsanov, 85, was charged with genocid...

News Highlights from December 14—December 21, 1998 * Statues of Vladimir Lenin which once stood in city-center squares all across Lithuania will now be put on display in a rural forest, government officials announced on December 17. Some 40 communist-era statues, including of Karl Marx a...

News Highlights from February 12-February 19, 2001 Riga's city council has voted to donate a bronze statue of Russian Czar Peter the Great to the city of St. Petersburg in an apparent bid to get rid of what has become a hot potato at home. Some members of Latvia's large Russian minori...

News Highlights from December 28, 1998—January 4, 1999 * One man was killed when a homemade bomb went off on December 28 at an outdoor market in Tallinn’s city center. The early morning explosion occurred at a ramp used for unloading meat and other produce sold at the popular Tallinn C...

Friday—December 13, 2002 COPENHAGEN (CITY PAPER) Baltic leaders heralded their invitations to join the European Union as fulfillment of what once seemed an impossible dream—while others say they're not convinced membership is such a wonderful prospect. “Mr. Repse is in Copenhagen drinking ...