The highly popular Night of Museums will be held for the 6th year in a row. On the evening of May 15, 96 museums across Latvia will open their doors to visitors free of charge from 7 p.m. until 1 a.m. On top of the programme offered by various museums, during the event the public [...]
Lithuania’s first gay parade took place on Saturday in Vilnius, accompanied by massive police protection and counter demonstrations. The EU has to do more for the rights of homosexuals, writes the daily Politiken: “When intolerance starts making inroads in the EU the time has come for Brussels to act. The EU must demand that Lithuania [...]
In Lithuania there is currently a lively debate about equal rights for women. But according to the daily Lietuvos Rytas it doesn’t go far enough: “Only when men finally learn to respect women and their rights will we experience true democracy. In the West there was a series of revolutions, for example the students’ revolt [...]
Although Finland and Estonia are bound together by many historical and cultural affinities, the daily Postimees points to imbalances in their relationship: “Many people, goods and cultural events travel between Estonia and Finland, but very little news. Finns hardly take note of the Estonian media, and in Estonia only the biggest Finnish daily, Helsingin Sanomat, [...]
The Lithuanian Drąsius Kedys is said to have killed two people he had accused of aiding and abetting the abuse of his underage daughter, including a judge. The accusations could not be proven and several days ago Kedys himself was found dead. The portal Balsas suspects a conspiracy: “Since Drąsius Kedys’ burial there has been no [...]
Allegations of sexual abuse have now also been levelled against priests of the relatively small Catholic Church in Sweden. Catholic doctor Bengt Malmgren warns in his blog on the portal Newsmill against premature condemnation of the Church: “You can’t praise Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI for having done everything right. Nevertheless it is incorrect in the present [...]
Based on the poll conducted on February 2010, marketing and public opinion research centre SKDS informs that as many as 80% of Latvia’s population have made donations to charity during the last 12 months. The authors of the survey pointed out that the income level was not the key factor for making donations to charity. [...]
Estonia is debating on whether to raise the age of consent for sexual contact between adults and young girls and boys from 14 to 16. The daily Postimees doubts the logic of this controversial measure: “At what age should a person’s sex life begin? Parents would answer this question with ‘as late as possible’, the [...]
Latvia’s Evangelical Lutheran Church is in major financial difficulties as a result of the economic crisis. In his blog on the Politika portal Kārlis Streips writes that the conservative course of Archbishop Jānis Vanags is also to blame for the problems: “Why is a Baptist not allowed to attend the Catholic Communion? Because neither Baptists [...]
A disciplinary court in Warsaw on Tuesday refused to revoke the immunity of a judge who sentenced a dissident to prison in communist times. This shows just how little progress has been made on dealing with the past, the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita admonishes: “If anyone needed proof that the judicial milieu continues to be dominated [...]
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