Narva is next – at least that’s what the organisers of the city’s bid to host the European capital of culture in 2024 think.
Author: Helen Wright
UNHCR: Ethiopian Refugee Shares Her Passion For Dresses With Lithuanian Women
When Eskedar Maštavičienė was relocated to Lithuania from Malta in 2007 after fleeing her home nation of Ethiopia, she found the new country and its people cold and wintery. Now, almost 10 years later, she considers the country her home.
UNHCR: Volunteers Give Refugees a Taste of life in Lithuania
Aktyvus jaunimas (Active Youth), a youth group based in Vilnius, is trying to give newly arrived refugees a taste of their new home at the reception centre in Rukla, near Kaunas, Lithuania‘s second largest city.
mbl.is: Lithuanians say “Thank You Iceland”
I contributed photographs to a story on Icelandic news website mbl.is about the 'Ačiū Tau, Islandija'17' event which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania.
New Eastern Europe: Meanwhile in the Baltics…
My feature about Mission Siberia was published in 'Meanwhile in the Baltics...' an anthology of Baltic writing put together by New Eastern Europe and the Solidarity Academy.
Estonian World: The Estonian National Museum, making people proud
The state-of-the-art Estonian National Museum, built on a former runway, was designed to represent the country’s emerging history.
Estonian World: Flying like a swan – Sacha Dench in Estonia
Despite snow, fog, rain, injury and exhaustion a woman who has flown 7,000 kilometres from the Russian Arctic to the UK, via Estonia, charting the migration patterns of endangered swans, has almost completed her journey.
Estonian World: Anete Elken brings Estonian bread making to China
Most long-term expats know there is nothing quite like the taste of home, but one Estonian is now trying to recreate the taste of her homeland in China.
Estonian World: The Estonian National Museum opens in Tartu
It’s been a long wait – 107 years, to be exact – but Estonia has finally opened its first national museum dedicated to the history, life and traditions of Estonians and other Finno-Ugric peoples.
Deep Baltic: The Young Lithuanians tending their history above the arctic circle
To some it might seem strange to go to a remote corner of Siberia for two weeks each summer to clean up a graveyard – but this year more than 800 young Lithuanians applied to do just that.
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