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I must confess something: I do not like "Laima" chocolates. The Latvian sweets I am really fascinated about are "Pūre" - deriving from the name of a small town in the Tukums Region counting only some hundreds of residents.

Since 2007, "Pūre" has been producing the best truffles in the Baltics. Probably, as "Pergalė" from Lithuania would certainly ( Read more... )

In May 1992, the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) was founded in Rīga. Its goal was to provide representatives of a new independent state, including Latvia's decision-makers, experts and the wider public, with analysis, recommendations and information about international developments, regional security issues, as well as foreign ( Read more... )

Time for a poetry break again :-) Today I have chosen autumn as a topic and two wonderful poets, who knew to brilliantly describe this chilling season - Salomėja Nėris (1904-1945) from Lithuania and Kārlis Skalbe (1879-1945) from Latvia:

Rudens

Jau druvas paliek kailas,
Un kuļmašīna dīc.
Drīz smagais zelta rudens
Būs klētī noguldīts.
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At the beginning of 2019, I started my own YouTube channel on international networking under the title "i-networker". There I am talking about how to lead negotiations and make a deal across cultures.

Finally, I shot two videos on the business culture in Lithuania and Latvia. The former video turned out to be one of the most popular entries on the ( Read more... )

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Last week I happened to be in Kaliningrad, the Western-most region of Russia, where I managed to go to the opening of a photo exhibition by Oleg Maksimov, who has been celebrating his 90th anniversary this year, at the Vorota Art Space.

An unexpected added value of the event was not only the birthday child, who was present himself - and in very ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago, I was featuring ORLEN Lietuva, a Lithuanian asset of the Polish energy concern, in one of my posts. However, this is not the only big Polish player on the local market, and, even if ORLEN's history dates back to the second half of the 19th century, the champion of today has even a longer record. No surprise, as the insurance ( Read more... )

I joined this social network well before connecting to Facebook, Twitter or VK, even before Odnoklassniki and Goldenline, the Polish LinkedIn, let alone that I did not realise what I was joining. A friend of mine from Latvia invited me to connect via Draugiem (translated as "For Friends" from Latvian) - and I accepted the call. Hence, VKontakte and ( Read more... )

This place deep in the forest, a swamp area, where the abandoned village of Galiashor near Kudymkar (Permian Komi District, Perm Region, Russia) is located, seems to be a pain in the neck for the local authorities.

First, they wanted to pull down the monument to the victims of Soviet repressions, who were deported there from Lithuania and Poland. ( Read more... )