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· Nov 11
How Latin Became the Literary Language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
"In the 15th century a story first appears that the Lithuanians were descended from a group of Roman soldiers who were blown off course after leaving Britain in 55 BC"
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The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was once Europe's largest state. Much of its population spoke Ruthenian, the elite were increasingly switching to Polish. Lithuanian was still not a literary language - but many Lithuanians believed it to be a form of Latin.
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Estonia started building bunkers on its Russian border, with the first phase installing 28 bunkers including seven already delivered near Setomaa municipality, Defense Investment Center reports.
December 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Estonia started building bunkers on its Russian border, with the first phase installing 28 bunkers including seven already delivered near Setomaa municipality, Defense Investment Center reports.
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Construction of the Narva hydroelectric power station, Estonian SSR, early 1950s
December 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Construction of the Narva hydroelectric power station, Estonian SSR, early 1950s
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At the National Library of Lithuania today and tomorrow to discuss imperial family violence in 19th & 20th centuries with @mmuravyeva.bsky.social @joannabourke.bsky.social and other colleagues and friends 📃https://blogs.helsinki.fi/fourepochsofviolence/program/
Program – 'Till Death Do Us Part': Four Epochs of Violence in Every Family in Russia – what makes it Russian? (FEVER)
blogs.helsinki.fi
December 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
At the National Library of Lithuania today and tomorrow to discuss imperial family violence in 19th & 20th centuries with @mmuravyeva.bsky.social @joannabourke.bsky.social and other colleagues and friends 📃https://blogs.helsinki.fi/fourepochsofviolence/program/
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meanwhile, in estonia,
90-year-old singer: I sing so much that my neighbors called the police
Ninety-year-old Rudolf Ernesaks has sung his whole life — a passion he still enjoys so much, it recently got the cops called on his home.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
meanwhile, in estonia,
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We've updated our timeline of Latvian history from the Ice Age with the most significant of 2024 and this year. Border and energy security feature front and center.
Brew your morning coffee or tea and click on "Expand all +".
latvians.com?en/CultureHi...
Brew your morning coffee or tea and click on "Expand all +".
latvians.com?en/CultureHi...
December 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
We've updated our timeline of Latvian history from the Ice Age with the most significant of 2024 and this year. Border and energy security feature front and center.
Brew your morning coffee or tea and click on "Expand all +".
latvians.com?en/CultureHi...
Brew your morning coffee or tea and click on "Expand all +".
latvians.com?en/CultureHi...
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The staircase of the Riga Art Nouveau Centre in Riga, Latvia
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The staircase of the Riga Art Nouveau Centre in Riga, Latvia
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⚡️ Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus.
This move will allow state institutions to coordinate their response more effectively and involve the military.
This move will allow state institutions to coordinate their response more effectively and involve the military.
Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus
This move will allow state institutions to coordinate their response more effectively and involve the military.
kyivindependent.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
⚡️ Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus.
This move will allow state institutions to coordinate their response more effectively and involve the military.
This move will allow state institutions to coordinate their response more effectively and involve the military.
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Destruction and Re-Birth
📷 Manufaktuuri
#tallinn #historic #industrial #urbanlandscape #documentary #photography
📷 Manufaktuuri
#tallinn #historic #industrial #urbanlandscape #documentary #photography
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Destruction and Re-Birth
📷 Manufaktuuri
#tallinn #historic #industrial #urbanlandscape #documentary #photography
📷 Manufaktuuri
#tallinn #historic #industrial #urbanlandscape #documentary #photography
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Former Estonian General: “If We Do Everything Right, War Will Not Come to Our Doorstep" balticsentinel.eu/8375288/form...
Former Estonian General: “If We Do Everything Right, War Will Not Come to Our Doorstep"
A former top Estonian military officer, now active in the missile industry, Major General (R) Veiko-Vello Palm says that although there’s lately been a growing sense that decisions are being made…
balticsentinel.eu
December 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Former Estonian General: “If We Do Everything Right, War Will Not Come to Our Doorstep" balticsentinel.eu/8375288/form...
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#Vilisuu (Vilisuu)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna
Lit. #WhistleMouth. Differing explanations: 1) Rarely-used bogey-man type threat for children: Ära mine õue, vilisuu tuleb!, Don’t go out, Vilisuu will get you! (lit. is coming). #Folklore character related to other #Estonian wind spirits, such as
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#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna
Lit. #WhistleMouth. Differing explanations: 1) Rarely-used bogey-man type threat for children: Ära mine õue, vilisuu tuleb!, Don’t go out, Vilisuu will get you! (lit. is coming). #Folklore character related to other #Estonian wind spirits, such as
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December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Lithuania to declare ’emergency situation’ over Belarus balloons
Lithuania to declare ’emergency situation’ over Belarus balloons
Lithuania has called for harsher sanctions on Belarus
dlvr.it
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Lithuania to declare ’emergency situation’ over Belarus balloons
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#Lithuania: LRT journalists will protest on 9 December against efforts to undermine the safeguards that protect the public broadcaster's independence. We strongly condemn any attempt to seize political control, and call on MPs to stand for media freedom and act in accordance with the #EMFA.
Lithuania: MFRR raises alarm as political pressure campaign on LRT widens
Proposed legal amendments to the law governing Lithuania’s public broadcaster LRT risk weakening its editorial independence and disrupting its ...
europeanjournalists.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#Lithuania: LRT journalists will protest on 9 December against efforts to undermine the safeguards that protect the public broadcaster's independence. We strongly condemn any attempt to seize political control, and call on MPs to stand for media freedom and act in accordance with the #EMFA.
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Estonia is often called the EU’s most climate‑sceptic country – which made my interview with @erikmoora.bsky.social at Eesti Ekspress so timely.
We discussed shifting public sentiment, energy prices & why electrification & efficiency are key to Europe’s competitiveness.
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We discussed shifting public sentiment, energy prices & why electrification & efficiency are key to Europe’s competitiveness.
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From Europe’s most climate-sceptic nation: the transition is inevitable - but will Europe lead or…
Following my public lecture at the Estonian Academy of Sciences in November 2025, I sat down with Erik Moora — a prominent public figure…
medium.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Estonia is often called the EU’s most climate‑sceptic country – which made my interview with @erikmoora.bsky.social at Eesti Ekspress so timely.
We discussed shifting public sentiment, energy prices & why electrification & efficiency are key to Europe’s competitiveness.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
We discussed shifting public sentiment, energy prices & why electrification & efficiency are key to Europe’s competitiveness.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Estonia's part in the Amber Road has been questioned for long but more recent research has shown that raw amber was indeed found & collected in #BronzeAge Estonia (Saaremaa) at a time when it was a material high in demand in the Apennine peninsula (& elsewhere in Southern Europe) 2/4
Photo: see ALT
Photo: see ALT
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Estonia's part in the Amber Road has been questioned for long but more recent research has shown that raw amber was indeed found & collected in #BronzeAge Estonia (Saaremaa) at a time when it was a material high in demand in the Apennine peninsula (& elsewhere in Southern Europe) 2/4
Photo: see ALT
Photo: see ALT
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Always found it oddly charming that one of the main centres for Latgalian culture in very slightly more russophone Rēzekne is... a kebab shop
(And pleasingly, they maintain their all-Latgalian signage policy even at their very popular Riga branch)
(And pleasingly, they maintain their all-Latgalian signage policy even at their very popular Riga branch)
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Always found it oddly charming that one of the main centres for Latgalian culture in very slightly more russophone Rēzekne is... a kebab shop
(And pleasingly, they maintain their all-Latgalian signage policy even at their very popular Riga branch)
(And pleasingly, they maintain their all-Latgalian signage policy even at their very popular Riga branch)
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"Tartu University is analysing other historic artefacts ... including an 800-year-old cross depicting genitalia that makes a sound when worn.
The metal cross has a hinged piece in the shape of a vulva that covers and knocks against an engraved penis design when moved around." #MedievalSky
The metal cross has a hinged piece in the shape of a vulva that covers and knocks against an engraved penis design when moved around." #MedievalSky
DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’
The prehistoric birch tar found in Estonia contained traces of saliva that were analysed by genetics experts
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"Tartu University is analysing other historic artefacts ... including an 800-year-old cross depicting genitalia that makes a sound when worn.
The metal cross has a hinged piece in the shape of a vulva that covers and knocks against an engraved penis design when moved around." #MedievalSky
The metal cross has a hinged piece in the shape of a vulva that covers and knocks against an engraved penis design when moved around." #MedievalSky
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84 years ago #OTD in occupied Riga, Nazi German forces started 2 days of mass murdering of 25,000 jews from Latvia and more than 1,000 from Berlin in Rumbula forest. Rumbula always reminds us to speak up. Today, we remembered. #niewiederistjetzt #neveragainisnow
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
84 years ago #OTD in occupied Riga, Nazi German forces started 2 days of mass murdering of 25,000 jews from Latvia and more than 1,000 from Berlin in Rumbula forest. Rumbula always reminds us to speak up. Today, we remembered. #niewiederistjetzt #neveragainisnow
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A great interview from @viljamsmauhuds.bsky.social with Jacob Mikanowski for @deepbaltic.bsky.social. Mikanowski's Goodbye Eastern Europe was my favorite book from last year and its great to read an interview with two people who obsess over the region like me!
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Goodbye Eastern Europe? An Interview with Jacob Mikanowski
"That’s what I’m pushing again – to say: no, this is a unique and uniquely rich human landscape that has had also some of the most extreme experiences in all of human history"
deepbaltic.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A great interview from @viljamsmauhuds.bsky.social with Jacob Mikanowski for @deepbaltic.bsky.social. Mikanowski's Goodbye Eastern Europe was my favorite book from last year and its great to read an interview with two people who obsess over the region like me!
deepbaltic.com/2024/12/15/g...
deepbaltic.com/2024/12/15/g...
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LSM reports that Latvia plans to dismantle the railway tracks leading to Russia. This measure is being considered as one of the options for strengthening national defense and security amid the tense situation on the eastern border.
eng.lsm.lv/article/econ...
eng.lsm.lv/article/econ...
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
LSM reports that Latvia plans to dismantle the railway tracks leading to Russia. This measure is being considered as one of the options for strengthening national defense and security amid the tense situation on the eastern border.
eng.lsm.lv/article/econ...
eng.lsm.lv/article/econ...
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This woman that was there delivering the news on the Soviet assault on January 13, 1991 in Vilnius is still on air btw.
What's even crazier, January 12 is her birthday. She was exactly 28 years old when she was there in the studio, while the Soviet troops were walking in the corridors.
What's even crazier, January 12 is her birthday. She was exactly 28 years old when she was there in the studio, while the Soviet troops were walking in the corridors.
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This woman that was there delivering the news on the Soviet assault on January 13, 1991 in Vilnius is still on air btw.
What's even crazier, January 12 is her birthday. She was exactly 28 years old when she was there in the studio, while the Soviet troops were walking in the corridors.
What's even crazier, January 12 is her birthday. She was exactly 28 years old when she was there in the studio, while the Soviet troops were walking in the corridors.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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📷 Liudvikas Ruikas. Untitled (Autostrada Kaunas-Klaipėda, Lithuania, 1977).
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
📷 Liudvikas Ruikas. Untitled (Autostrada Kaunas-Klaipėda, Lithuania, 1977).