French GdF joins Nord Stream
Russia’s gas gain Gazprom and French GdF Suez have signed an agreement on French company’s joining Nord Stream project
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The Öresund bridge forges links
The Öresund bridge between the Danish capital Copenhagen and the southern Swedish city of Malmö will turn ten years old at the beginning of July. The link, consisting of a bridge, a tunnel and an artificial island, was initially highly controversial, but in the view of the daily Dagens Nyheter it has in the meantime [...]
June 16, 2010 | Posted in News | Read More »
Medical tourism promising new source of income
The EU health ministers last week decided that patients will be allowed to choose in which country they want to go to the doctor’s. The daily Eesti Päevaleht writes that Estonia stands to benefit: “What way will this medical tourism go? Estonian doctors hope that foreigners will bring additional funds into the local medical sector. [...]
June 14, 2010 | Posted in News | Read More »
Latvian gets 7 years for role in Arctic Sea hijacking
The Moscow City Court on Friday sentenced Latvian national Dmitry Savins to seven years in a high-security prison for leading a pirate attack on the Arctic Sea vessel. The Arctic Sea went missing in the Atlantic on July 24 while carrying a $2 million shipment of timber from Finland to Algeria and was intercepted by [...]
Russians protest against Strasbourg court’s decision on Latvian WWII veteran
More than 5,000 residents of the Kuril Islands and the Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East have signed an appeal to be filed to the European Court of Human Rights over a court’s decision accusing a Soviet World War II veteran of war crimes, a local politician said. YUGNO-SAKHALINSK (rian) – ”The ruling made by the [...]
U.S., European military to discuss air defense cooperation
TALLINN — U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) top brass will attend a Building Partnership Seminar under the Unified Engagement series in Estonian capital, Tallinn, on June 7-11. U.S. delegation led by USAFE Commander, General Roger A. Brady, will join military officials from seven European countries to discuss interoperability and future cooperation. The event, co-hosted [...]
Riga Will Host the New EU BEREC Office
On May 31, the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council of the European Union unanimously confirmed that Rīga, capital city of Latvia, will be a home for the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) Office. This is the first EU institution to be set up in Latvia. It is planned that the Office will [...]
NATO Parliamentary Assembly Session Being Held in Riga
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly Spring Session is underway from May 28 to June 1 in Rīga, bringing together around 700 parliament members, observers, experts and journalists from 28 NATO PA member states and 13 associate countries. In his presentation to the Political Committee meeting, Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Aivis Ronis, former member of the [...]
More than 2,000 Belarusian soldiers to participate in CSTO’s military contingent
Belarus will contribute more than 2,000 troops to the post-Soviet security group’s rapid reaction force, the country’s defense minister, Yury Zhadobin, said on Wednesday. The Belarusian parliament finally ratified earlier on Wednesday an agreement on the creation of the rapid reaction force as part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The CSTO is seen [...]
May 26, 2010 | Posted in News | Read More »
Estonian tourists stranded in Turkey for non-payment, tour agency folds
A consumer rights protection agency in Estonia has organized flights for 421 tourists stranded in Turkey after a tour company failed to pay for hotel accommodations, the agency’s press service said on Saturday. On Friday, Top Tours, one of Estonia’s leading tour firms, announced it was closing down its business and not fulfilling tour packages [...]
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