History looks strikingly different when the viewing angle is canted away from the ordinary. Writing the history of the Baltic region means bringing into a common frame the histories of Sweden, Finland ...

Gotska Sandön has long been regarded as a lonely and desolate place where people only occasionally hunted seals. But recent archaeological investigations reveal a considerably more complex history.

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

The Baltic economies are too small to attract the attention of many investors but it's worth keeping an eye on dynamic entrepreneurial markets like these, says Frdric Guirinec. Located on the eastern ...

When I lived in the Baltics in the early 1990s, we used to pooh-pooh the prospect of NATO membership. The obstacles seemed insurmountable: Soviet occupation soldiers who wouldn’t go home; disputed ...

Rich in history and culture, the three Baltic nations — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — which were hidden under the Soviet red flag for decades, have now emerged as stars of the European tourist ...

A ‘let-bygones-be-bygones’ approach to history has the advantage of simplicity, even if it is easier for perpetrators than for victims. Russia’s foreign ministry articulated it firmly in May 2005, ...

The Baltic countries comprise three nations in northeastern Europe: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. They are called "Baltic" because they all lie along the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. This sea ...