Stories about Lithuania from January, 2007
Lithuania, Latvia: The Barricades Remembered
Marginalia remembers the events of 16 years ago that took place in Lithuania and Latvia: “In Riga, between half a million and seven hundred thousand people (out of a total population of just over two and a half million in Latvia, Soviet military personnel and colonists included) gathered on the...
Lithuania: Helene Holzman
Music and Life – Everywhere! writes about Helene Holzman, a German married to a Jew in Kaunas, Lithuania, before World War II: there is a book based on her diary – and there are still people in Lithuania who remember meeting her in person.
Europe: EU Enlarement; “Stars and Soggy Bottoms”
The Economist‘s Edward Lucas on the EU's newest members – and on Central and East European “stars and soggy bottoms.”
Lithuania: Vilnius Taxis
Music and Life – Everywhere! writes about unreliability of the Vilnius taxis.