Stories about Latvia from January, 2007
Latvia: Border Dispute
Marginalia writes about Latvia's border dispute with Russia and about “putting things in order”: “When a state “puts things in order,” it has a sad tendency to forget real people and real places, methinks.”
Latvia: Riga Folk Choir
Dykun posts “footage of members of the folk choir Skandinieki singing this past weekend at a rock that marks one of the spots in Riga where 5 people were killed during a Soviet crackdown on January 20, 1991.”
Latvia: Monuments
Marginalia posts a very interesting entry on Latvia's monuments – and its “almost antiseptically politics-free” currency.
Latvia: “Eastern or Western?”
Some Latvians are “tired of being lumped in with, and referred to, as Eastern European,” writes All About Latvia.
Russia, Latvia: Border Dispute
All About Latvia posts an update on the unresolved border dispute between Russia and Latvia.
Latvia: Auseklis Bauskenieksone
Marginalia writes about Auseklis Bauskenieksone, one of Latvia's leading avant-garde painter who Jan. 13 at the age of 96.
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...
Latvia: Soviet Prison Tours
All About Latvia reports on a new tourist attraction: “For 5 lats, you can experience a Soviet prison first hand.”
