Topic: Baltic Countries

U.S.-Lithuania, noon ET Saturday

Just a little fair warning that after weeks of putting 'em off, BDL will live blog tomorrow's World Championship semifinal match between the US...

Nature delivers farmers a financial soaking

It doesn't rain the way it used to." . . The statement -- made half a world away by the director of the World Water Week Conference in Stockholm ...

Russia at its wildest

Spanning 11 time zones and two continents, Russia remains one of the world's great wildernesses, dazzling in its extremes.. . From deadly apex ...

Who Doesn't Love the Wind?

Russian President Vladimir Putin, that's who. "You couldn't transfer large electric power stations to wind energy, however much you wanted to. In...

The Finnish Are Coming!

For a quaint Nordic nation at the tip of northern Europe, Finland is making a big mark on the global fashion scene. Plucked out of Espoo, Finland...
(Kenneth Anderson) . Columbia University historian Samuel Moyn has a new book out, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard/Belknap). I...

Portugal suffers as lending costs soar

Subscription page Tensions in the eurozone have increased as government borrowing costs of the weaker countries soared against Germany, the single...

Schwarzenegger Mocks Palin on Twitter

We're proud Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally come up with some better digs than calling people "girlie men." At the LA Press Club Awards ceremony...

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Friday is Fashion Night in Moscow as boutiques stay open late to woo customers with champagne, special offers and skimpy T-shirts you can draw on...
Forest fires have killed five people in northern Kazakhstan, the country's Emergencies Ministry said on Thursday, as neighbouring Russia sent ...