- Living in a whole new world, yet not in the End of the World!
The unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic continued claiming new victims in November, ravaging industries, and that of media, too.
- Attention!
Due to COVID-19 depression, starting 2021, The Baltic Times will be published quarterly, yet more voluminous and analytical!
- It is a time when we need especially tender, human treatment
Slowly but assuredly we’re winding down another year – the year of 2020.
- Heatwaves hit the Baltics and Belarus
August has unleashed some really scorching days across the Baltics.
- Living in an age when the memory is stunningly short
Has there recently been a world pandemic of COVID-19?
- The nightmare is over, but what awaits ahead?
The last two and a half months have been nightmarish for many with COVID-19-triggered quarantine in full swing.
- When social distancing is the new norm
The Baltics are entering May with some good news on the COVID-19 front – the pandemic is seemingly plateauing, with the new cases of the illness expected to go into single digits in May.
- Lapses of our human face will be remembered longest
Frankly speaking, putting together a new newspaper issue has never been as hard as this time.
- It is great to have some true friends all over!
Another month has passed and we are entering March, the first month of spring.
- When busy, the weather outside the window matters little
There is still no snow and cold in the Baltics by the very end of January, which, for me, is a clear sign of climate change across the globe and in the Baltics, too.
- A nuclear war starting in the Baltics – outside of the realm of fantasies?
You’re holding the penultimate edition of the year’s The Baltic Times.
- The single question that gets revisited every time I go to Brussels is…?
I can admit one thing that probably I should avoid mentioning as there is nothing to brag about: I tend to go Brussels for a variety of events organized by the European Parliament or the European Commission perhaps more often than I visit my octogenarian parents (they are still quite agile and spry, thank God!) in southern Lithuania, nearly 300 kilometres from where I live on the coast.
- September churns out some thrilling political events
As autumn sets in – I hope you’re not experiencing season change related blues?
- How I barely squeezed into the Baltic Way
To forget some things are harder than others and some events just happen to be once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
- What if you’re not a big summer fan?
As we are entering the last month of the summer, many of you would perhaps heave a sigh of relief if it had been over already.
- Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
Let’s speak about forming friendships today.
- Will Lithuania validate dual citizenship?
Spring has finally descended on the Baltics, driving hundreds of Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga residents out into the streets.
- What the sweeping wave of elections promises to us all?
It is good to see you clutching the newest issue of The Baltic Times, which created some buzz in late January with the release of its magazine, this time devoted for the year 2019 winter and spring season.
- Let’s welcome in the New Year as a better year!
Perhaps dizzied by the flickering and shimmering Christmas and New Year festoon lights in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, I tend to be too reminiscent of past events, those in the shrivelling year of 2018 at least.
- Quite an exciting political season ahead!
With the year winding down, we tend to look back to see what happened and, at the same time, to look ahead, trying to predict what lies for us there.
