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1956 October 23 – November 10: Hungarian Uprising
2014 October 26: Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
1991 October 27: Turkmenistan Independence Day
1918 October 28: Independent Czechoslovak State Day
2018 November 4: New Caledonian independence referendum
2014 November 9: Catalan self-determination referendum
1919 November 11: Latvian Freedom Fighters’ Remembrance Day – Lāčplēsis Day
1918 November 11: National Independence Day in Poland
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How China’s Rich and Famous Disappear
Wealth managers UBS and Julius Baer restrict travel to China after Singapore banker is detained
Finnish Man Sentenced To Prison For Online Pro-Russia Hate Campaign
US Air Force bolsters Russia deterrence mission in Estonia with $14 million in base construction
Five Musicians Building a New World in the Face of Estonia’s Isolated Past
Renewables meet 19% of Estonia’s Q3 power
The Words of a Young Jewish Poet Provoke Soul-Searching in Lithuania
Finland moves to boost its naval power in the Baltic Sea hotspot
Russia’s troll farm doubled its budget in early 2018
Number of Russian spies in UK has risen fivefold since Cold War
Lithuania can serve as gateway to Europe for China’s fintech firms
Shifting military technology and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear treaty
Trump Adviser Tells Putin: We’ll Quit Arms Control Treaty You’re Breaking
Trump’s Plan to Leave a Major Arms Treaty With Russia Might Actually Be About China
Russian oligarch Rotenberg files service violation lawsuit against Finnish banks
Sights And Sounds Of Discontent In Turkmenistan
Toronto unveils Holodomor Memorial
The Hungarian Uprising of October ’56
In Win for Trump, Merkel Changes Course on U.S. Gas Imports
Latvia’s Elections: The View From Afar
Latvia receives first Polaris military tactical vehicles from US
Things to know about the Latvian request for independence in 1918
Young Catholics urge Vatican to issue inclusive LGBTQ message
Lithuania Pledges to Support Georgia
Russian trolls get DM from US Cyber Command: We know who you are. Stop it
NATO jets scrambled three times over Baltic last week
Estonia to send ten staff officers to NATO exercise in Norway
Latvian troops participate in NATO’s Trident Juncture drills
NATO Launches ‘Biggest Military Exercise Since The End Of The Cold War’
Russian Patriarch Cuts Short Planned Visit to Moldova
Tibet: Parliament in Exile in Unofficial Talks with Chinese Government
Switzerland suspects Abramovich of links with crime and money laundering
Turkey wants Estonia to extradite members Gülen movement
Belarusian busted in Lithuania with contraband in car with diplomatic plates
Europe’s worst currency is still strong a decade after crisis
Unions Seek 40% Pay Hikes for Iceland Workers
Today is Women’s Day Off in Iceland
Ligatne: A chilling look inside Latvia’s nuclear Cold War bunker
Estonian, Latvian tax systems lead OECD rankings
Inside China’s internment camps: tear gas, Tasers and textbooks
China’s Government Has Ordered a Million Citizens to Occupy Uighur Homes
Vatican ‘suffragettes’ want vote, change, in a man’s Church
Jamaica wants reggae on UNESCO cultural heritage list
Bitter taste for Cuba as it imports sugar for the first time
NATO Launches ‘Biggest Military Exercise Since The End Of The Cold War’
Estonian Russian speakers increasingly turning to RTR
Latvia presides over Stockholm meeting on Baltic Sea issues
Rovaniemi airbase hosting NATO warplanes
European Parliament calls on EU to toughen Russia sanctions if situation in Azov Sea escalates
Ukraine: Russia sends Donbas coal to Turkey and Poland
Delegation of US senators visits Estonia, meets with Luik
After 700 years in Latvia, Baltic Germans vanished in a matter of weeks
Latvia’s Stinger missiles arrive from Denmark
Indigenous Sámi community weighs in on truth and reconciliation process
Vatican stalls on married Catholic priests
Drug coverage lack makes Estonian girl medical refugee
Estonia takes home 5 medals from 2018 Invictus Games
Baltic states may not afford internal battles while implementing Rail Baltica project – Murniece
?! ‘An Attack on Belarus Is an Attack on Russia,’ Moscow Warns
Moscow’s ‘Article Five’ Guarantee to Belarus: First Step Toward Permanent Russian Base?
‘Deteriorating’ human rights in Belarus amounts to ‘wholescale oppression’: UN expert
Lukashenko: Belarus ready to “engage” in Donbas conflict settlement
Estonian State Reform Foundation: Slash number of state officials in half
Latvia participates at Northern Future Forum in Norway
Lithuania ranks 137 out of 139 nations in CAF World Giving Index
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