- Some Soviet remnants still wait their uprooting in Lithuania
Over the last 30 years of independence, the success of Lithuania, a Baltic state, is huge, but, well, some of the relics of the Soviet past still persist and mar the country’s life.
- Romuva leader: Pagans do not challenge Roman Catholic Church, seek fairness
The Lithuanian legislature, Seimas, has rejected Lithuanian pagan group Romuva’s request to grant it state recognition.
- Linnahall important for Tallinn and Estonia, but economic challenge remain
It conjures within the mind a crumbling Mesoamerican Mayan ancient square-topped pyramid, but the fading appreciation of Tallinn’s Linnahall, which encapsulates the height of modernist architecture, has become an imposing concrete ghost town.