Monday—December 22, 2003 VILNIUS (CITY PAPER) Some 3,000 backers of embattled President Rolandas Paksas demonstrated over the weekend in support of the Lithuanian leader, who, by most accounts, is destined to be impeached within the next half year. Paksas, accused of having ties to Russian org...

Monday—July 5, 2004 TALLINN (CITY PAPER) Baltic economies continue to rocket ahead, still registering the highest growth rates anywhere in Europe. In the latest statistics to be released, Estonia reported a 6.8 percent growth rate for the first quarter of 2004, a higher-than-expected figure. L...

Tuesday—September 28, 2004 10 Years from M/S Estonia Disaster Estonia commemorates tenth anniversary of M/S Estonia ferry catastrophe. 852 people, mostly Estonians, Swedes and Finns, died when the Estonia ferry sank in stormy seas in the early hours of September 1994 on its way from Tallinn t...

Friday—October 29, 2004 Emsis government falls The Latvian parliament, or Saeima, rejected the 2005 national budget draft in its first reading. According to Saeima rules, if the Saeima votes against the cabinet of ministers' national budget draft in either its first or second reading, this is...

Thursday—November 25, 2004 Estonian police officer killed by suicide bomber At 3 a.m. this morning, police were alerted to a man wandering around Tallinn's Õismäe neighborhood with explosive materials strapped to his body. Shortly before 3:30 a.m., they intercepted the man, who climbed into...