2,000 free public access Wi-Fi hotspots has now been opened throughout Latvia by the largest Latvian telecom provider Lattelecom. The company already owned a Wi-Fi hotspot network, but now it is offering a free, ad-supported access. The users have to watch … Read More
Birth rates declining in all Baltic Sea countries hit extra hard in Poland. Data gathered from local education boards indicates that as many as 1000 schools across Poland are at risk of closure in 2013 owing to a marked demographic … Read More
The largest money laundering case in Estonia’s history will stand before the court this autumn. Estonian investigators have uncovered a massive Russian, Latvian and Estonian money laundering scheme, which managed to legalize at least 64 million EUR over the last … Read More
Lithuanian taxmen are using Google Street View as a tool to find people, who build their homes with undeclared taxable money. Two recent cases totalled more than 100.000 euro in penalties after investigators found buildings photographed by Google that could not be … Read More
Researchers from University of Tartu will study the effects on humans of a toxic dioxin compound found to be a component of Agent Orange that was used by USA during the Vietnam War - 1961 to 1971. According to Professor Sulev Kõks, the … Read More
German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce are even more optimistic now about operating in the Baltic States than a year ago.. It is due to the favourable economic conditions and the positive prospects for the German companies experienced in the beginning of 2013 Almost all … Read More
St. Petersburg oncologists have developed a unique method of diagnosing and eliminating small tumors. The discovery, made by scientists from the city’s Oncology Center located in Pesochnoye, represents a major medical breakthrough, the news website Fontanka.ru reported. Until recently, cancer … Read More
For many years the European Commission has been publishing the annual Innovation Union Scoreboard which, using 25 different indicators, provides a comparative assessment of the performance of the 27 Member States in such areas as financial accessibility, higher education, human … Read More
Thousands of tonnes of chemical weapons sunk in the Baltic Sea after WWII pose a lethal hazard to humans and the environment. After 70 years at the bottom of the sea, the corroded containers risk leaking deadly poisons, warns a … Read More
From the summer of 2013, Swedish police will be able to access other European Union nations’ DNA databases - a move which is expected to speed up international crime investigations. Currently, Swedish police can send DNA profiles to other countries … Read More
How can a region have something in common – an ‘identity’ – or be regarded as homogeneous, when nine different languages (at least!) are spoken within it, it contains more than nine ethnicities, uses eight different currencies, practices three different … Read More
Rūta Griciūtė blog in Lithuanian Tribune. I guess when you have been raised in Lithuania—such a lovely small country—as a young woman, you usually crave to explore new places, especially those in foreign lands. In addition to that, if you could … Read More
