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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
1992 March 21: Tatarstan Sovereignty Referendum
1918 March 25: Belarus Freedom Day (Dzen Voli)
1949 March 25: Operation Priboi, Soviet Mass Deportations from the Baltic States
2004 March 29: Baltic States Join NATO
1949 April 4: Founding of NATO
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America’s top defense officials say Google’s work in China benefits Beijing’s military
Costa Rica aiming to be world’s first plastic and carbon-free country by 2021
Baltic regulators fret that scandal could drive Nordic banks away
Joint NATO-Georgia Military Exercises Kick Off Near Tbilisi
Russia bolsters military presence in Abkhazia with 30% troop increase
Norway says it proved Russian GPS interference during NATO exercises
Appeasement of Lukashenka threatens independence of Belarus
US nuclear bomber reportedly spotted flying near St Petersburg
After the Cold War, an uncertain peace
Putin, rap and Night Wolves: Russia marks 5 years in Crimea
Paul Goble: Moscow engaging in slow-motion deportation of Crimean Tatars
Russia’s New Program to Rapidly Populate Crimea with Russians
Estonia receives first of two donated US tactical transport aircraft
Questions over municipal post Rīga mayor’s wife held for eight years
Lithuania set to pay whistleblowers
Lithuania adopts maximum diversification as defensive strategy
Lithuania makes its choice: odd unions raise some, side-line others
Credibility of German Multilateralism
EU eyes June to begin membership talks with North Macedonia
Political divisions widen in Albania as EU decision nears
Germany, Belgium propose new tool to police EU democracies
5 consequences of a life without NATO
Russia deploys more S-400 air defense missiles in Kaliningrad enclave
B-52 bombers are flying near Russian and Chinese waters this month
Russia has banned fake news, while also being one of the world’s prime exporters of fake news
Big Norwegian Aluminum Producer Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack
Moscow’s Minsk Gambit: Can Russia Swallow Belarus?
Tourists explore flooded landscape by canoe during Estonia’s ‘fifth season’
Head of Estonian delegation to NATO PA inspecting Pacific missile defense system in Hawaii
Former sumo wrestler Baruto becomes lawmaker in Estonia
Rail Baltica initially expecting fewer than 100 passengers per train
Documentary, exhibition to record British role in Latvia’s independence struggle
Finance watchdog: There are too many banks for size of Latvian market
Alternative für Deutschland politician seeking election to Brussels via Latvia
Latvian central bank earned 14.6 million euros in 2018
Lithuanian PM considering moving embassy to Jerusalem
Lithuania and Romania – highest increase of new car registrations in the EU
President: Lithuania has its own priorities in the European budget
GRECO declares Belarus non-compliant with anti-corruption standards
Qatar asks IAEA to intervene over ‘threat’ posed by UAE nuclear plant
Europe’s center-right suspends Hungary’s ruling party
US Air Force B-52s conduct missions across Europe, including Estonia
France: A European army would help — not threaten — US troops
Researchers praise Iceland model to reduce teen drug use
Making waves: Europe’s first underwater restaurant opens in Norway
Finland is the happiest country in the world again
Finland Needs to Defuse a Demographic Time Bomb
Baltics to receive 323 million euro electricity connection grant
Estonian policeman’s son is charged with murdering French film producer in London
Competition watchdog alleges cartel in Rīgas Satiksme “nanowater case”
Latvia police arrest 5 over defrauding EU fund
Welles Declaration: Personal tragedy led to 50 years of protecting Baltic statehood
Lithuanian pleads guilty to scamming Google and Facebook out of $123 million
Lithuanian PM meets with Chinese ambassador amid growing tensions over Huawei
Finland to join Lithuanian-led EU cyber security force project
Lithuanian MP Cleared of Sexually Harassing Female Applicants
Lithuania’s running out of possibilities to buy power from Belarus, parliament speaker says
Harvard’s president read a Uyghur poem to students at Peking University
China’s Uyghur detention camps may be the largest mass incarceration since the Holocaust
New Zealand Shooting Suspect Praised China For ‘Lacking Diversity’
Finland is investigating Nokia phones sending data to China
Large numbers of foreign intelligence staff in Finland, Russia and China particularly active
From California to Oslo – foreign subsidies fuel Norway’s e-car boom, for now
Oil Riches Put Norway on Divergent Path Toward Higher Rates
World’s Cheapest Mortgage May Be Around the Corner in Denmark
Baltic countries to discuss compensation for damage of Soviet occupation
Estonia’s Reform remains hopeful of forming government
Brexit is a mess, but UK startups may find refuge in Estonia’s e-Residency
US court charges two men of smuggling microchips to Russia via Estonia
Donor to Latvia’s Biggest Party Linked to Laundromat
Riga Moves to Shutter Gambling Halls
First Lithuanian Minister of Interior at Eurojust
Lithuanian conservatives’ leader warns of Orban’s threat to European liberal democracy
Czech Foreign Ministry Summons Russian Ambassador Amid Growing Apartment Scandal
Poland refuses to invite Russia to WWII commemoration ceremony
Finnish and Swedish fighter jets fly low over Lapland
Kaliningrad gets Moscow energy boost as Baltic states pull plug
Tallinn to ban single-use plastic dishes, utensils at public events
Estonian yacht captain convicted of drug smuggling in British court
Opposition groups in Lithuania’s parliament agree on leader
Polish PM to pay visit to Lithuania in early April
Operation Allied Force: NATO Bombing Of Yugoslavia
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