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.
Category: Estonia
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.
Deep Baltic: For David Against Goliath: Iceland’s Support for Baltic Independence
It was an uncomfortable silence in the back of a jeep, bouncing across the snow-covered steppe in Western Mongolia that made me ask my Icelandic companion about Tallinn’s Islandi väljak (Iceland Square).
City Paper: A Ghost Town Unsuitable for Humans: Patarei Sea Fortress
My Deep Baltic feature about Tallinn's Patarei Sea Fortess was reprinted in the June 2016 edition of Riga's City Paper.
Baltic Times: Estonia’s ‘Equal Pay Day’ blemished by lingering inequality
TALLINN - Lack of pay transparency, reenforcement of stereotypes, and maternity leave are all contributing to Estonia having the highest gender pay gap in the EU, equality campaigners say.
Baltic Times: Estonia marks Equal Pay Day
Equal Pay Day takes place in Estonia today (April 13) to highlight the average wage gap between men and women.
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