It's really a shame that the lesser talented of the poet Strelertes' children has sullied the family name in such a crass way. One had to admire, at least in...
Robert, Most of your remarkably venomous rant is really not worth responding to, but a few notes on Janis Elsbergs -- Janis' return to his real surname after...
I forgot to mention that your very first remark is wrong -- Vizma Bel¹evica's, not Veronika Strºlerte's children. Perhaps you'd care to explain on what basis...
Labvakar! Below is a book review I thought some here might find interesting. I've read some excerpts from the Kymlicka book Pavlovic cites, and am hoping to...
I'm alerting the Baltic readership to the Thomas Friedman 3/11 NYTimes OP-Ed piece - PRESENT AT...WHAT? In the second-to-last paragraph, he cites Latvia,...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
What was so upsetting about Friedman's use of the the term 'coalition of the willing'? And why would that set off warning bells? He merely barrowed it from...
Hey, while LOL is in the shop, is anybody visiting here? Is anybody willing to discuss the pros and cons of war in a civilized fashion with me? Gerg von Krieg...
Verehrter Gerg [sic], Since when does the Subcommandante [sic] discuss wars in a civilized fashion? The link below leads to a fine portrait of the President of...
Sveiki! Peeteri & Juri, nice to see you two conducting such a reasoned and in- depth discussion of the war. :) I was quite literally in the middle of...
What are the pros of what? Or did you mean "Who are the pros?" THe pros are the men who are still serving Babybush after they served Papabush so well when they...
Sveiki! Here's an abridged version of articles that originally appeared in Russian in the newspaper "Chas", translated & published in "Diena" on Saturday,...
Below is some stuff recently offered up by some of us anent Latvia, Latvian identity, EU entry, etc. -- please jump in... at least a couple of us are slow in...
Sveiki, An interesting subject and there's so much that it's hard to know where to start. Pabriks is mostly correct, but I don't think it is an issue of...
Sveiki! Andrej M, this is great stuff & overall I agree with what you're saying. Though, once again, I still think that regardless of whether it's called...
Sveiki! I've been mulling over a few things in Lize's earlier post (part of the compilation that started this thread). "What are we supposed to integrate...
Lize, I remember that article. It was interesting reading. My observations are based on broad stereotypes and limited at that, but I don't know if I'd narrow...