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The Essence of a Country: Lithuania's National Scent Gets Bottled
“Oh my, you smell like Lithuania!” Is this even a compliment? The new makers of Lithuanian perfume hope that it is, after you spritz on its national perfume...
Watch: Lithuanian Mayor Crushes Illegally Parked Car With a Tank
Say you're the mayor of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and you're plagued by illegal parkers. What do you do? Why, pack into an eight-wheeled armored...
Heading for the Nuclear Dustbin
Friday, Jun. 21, 2002The Lithuanian government has finally settled on a date for the closure of the world's largest nuclear power plant after securing...
Yes, We Have No Army
They called it "the CNN defense." In the early 1990s, just after the Baltic states won independence from Moscow, the region's strategy in the event of a Russian...
Chain Reaction
When it comes to energy, resource-poor Finland needs a wide array of technology to meet its needs. Energy sources range from hydro-electric power to burning wood...
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia hoped the end of communism meant the beginning of a wonderful life
It seems incomprehensible. Less than three years after declaring independence from Moscow and igniting the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuanians voted their...
Essay: Why Lithuania Is Not Like South Carolina
As Lithuania is slowly strangled, it appeals to the world for help. The world turns away ashamedly. Shame, because we know that the Lithuanian cause is just...
Soviet Union War of Nerves
On the surface the two men would seem to be absurdly mismatched. Mikhail Gorbachev is a master politician who has pushed aside all competitors for power and won...
Why The Western Powers Are Right to Tread Carefully
One could not help feeling a twinge of pity as Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene and her entourage trudged through Oslo looking for help last week...
Basketball Look For the Silver Lining
At 9:30 a.m. the plaza leading to the basketball venue in the gritty Barcelona suburb of Badalona is free of T-shirt hawkers, ticket scalpers and the sunburned...
