Council learns Baltic Street Department is ready for winter
Budget
At last week’s meeting of Baltic Village Council, members learned from the chair of Streets and Sidewalks, Don Smith, that Baltic is ready for winter, or at least as ready as they can be at this point. “We’ve been doing maintenance work to ...
Lithuania Parliament To Probe CIA Jail Allegations
Post Chronicle
Lithuania's parliament voted on Thursday to investigate allegations that the Baltic state hosted a secret CIA prison for al Qaeda suspects. U.S. broadcaster ABC news reported in August that Lithuania was the third European country after Pol...
UPDATE 3-Sweden, Finland approve Nord Stream pipeline plan
Forbes
STOCKHOLM, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A plan by Russian-German consortium Nord Stream to build a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea cleared two major hurdles on Thursday as Sweden and Finland signed off on construction in their waters
Baltic Festival: Early risers
PokerStars.com
We have just entered level three of this tournament, and proceedings are already getting messy. It doesn't matter how prestigious the event nor how deep the stacks, players will always get their chips in early -- and that means some will al...
Estonian troops boost NATO forces
Washington Times
Estonia, located along the Baltic Sea, was once part of the Soviet Union. It regained its independence after the fall of communism and is a full member of NATO and the European Union. Its population is about 1.4 million. Its professional mi...
Hundreds mourn Ron Aliano
Norwich Bulletin
People are here because of who he was,” said Brian Filiatreault of Baltic, who worked for Aliano’s American Ambulance company for 25 years. “In the homily, they said he took care of his own,” Filiatreault said, unable to conceal his grief ....
Baltic Festival: Welcome to Tallinn
PokerStars.com
One of the first things a visitor sees when he or she arrives at Tallinn international airport is an advert for a local department store, whose tagline reads: "Tallinn is quite nice!" As cynics from the other side of the world, we know not ...
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KPNews.com
Russia and former Soviet Union Uzbekistan to withdraw from regional power grid Today at 13:33 Russia and former Soviet Union Sweden OK's Baltic Sea gas pipeline Today at 13:04 Russia and former Soviet Union Russia: Two suspects in lawyer, j...
Euro zone retail sales fall, bode ill for recovery
The Guardian
Dismal figures for the Baltic republics highlighted the depth of their economic crisis. In Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, sales fell 20.8 percent, 30.9 percent and 25.7 percent, respectively, year-on-year. (Editing by Dale Hudson)
Sweden, Finland approve Nord Stream pipeline plan
Reuters AlertNet
STOCKHOLM, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A plan by Russian-German consortium Nord Stream to build a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea cleared two major hurdles on Thursday as Sweden and Finland signed off on construction across their waters. The Europe...
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Sveriges Radio
... Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren says the Swedish government has approved the passage of the controversial Nord Stream natural gas pipeline through the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea. Even the Finnish government gave its a...
Finland approves Russia's Nord Stream pipeline through Finnish waters
English_Xinhua
... natural gas pipeline system, which involves two parallel pipelines and approximately 1,220 km long, are intended to run from Vyborg of Russia to Greifswalder in Germany across Baltic Sea. Approximately 375 kilometers of the underwater s...
Sweden, Finland give green light to Nord Stream
RT
The Swedish and Finnish cabinets have approved the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline through their exclusive economic zones in the Baltic Sea. The Swedish Minister for the Environment, Andreas Carlgren, confirmed that the submitt...
Sweden gives OK to Nord Stream
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Sweden on Thursday announced it gave permission to Nord Stream AG to lay two natural gas pipelines in the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea. Nord Stream would travel along a dual route through the Gu...
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