Estonia has changed at such a rapid rate in the last 3 decades, compared to most of Europe. My interview with Estonia's current youngest MP Hanah Lahe, who encapsulates the rapid change - and why 🇪🇪 needs to be more vocal about the climate. For The Guardian
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In just over two weeks, my History of Eastern European students will be embarking a major ILE (Sim/Game) representing the period between the Bar Confederation (1768) and the 1st Partition (1772). I’ve not done anything this ambitious since my Holy Roman Empire course at WVU.

The St. Efrosīnija Orthodox Church in the small town of Kārsava, Latvia, close to the Russian border

(Image: Satori/Lolita Tomsone)

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The real reason the Baltic states got the breathing space to declare independence in 1918: everyone was scared off by wolves

Over 83,000 Russian citizens resident in Estonia

#Estonia

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This was a pleasure - albeit a challenging one - to translate. Just a couple of thousand words, but packed with enough strange and powerful images and scenes to fill a novel. By lolita tomsone 💛💙, originally published (in Latvian) in Satori.

Cross-border leagues are coming - the questions are who will go first & when. Latvia’s league and clubs want the Baltic states to pioneer an idea many see as only way to keep smaller countries competitive. Uefa increasingly receptive. Report from Riga: theguardian.com/football/2024/…

The challenge is not to rush

to grow only as quick as the grass grows,

while the seasons go racing past,

watch how grass shines after a storm

how it stiffens yellow in summer sun

how it bends as a morning mist presses down.

#DBarchives

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Konstantin Päts was born on this day 150 years ago. He died in 1956, incarcerated in Soviet penal psychiatric hospitals because he 'persistently claimed to be president of Estonia'. Which he was. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstanti…

Residents of Šiauliai in northern Lithuania are concerned about the fate of the only surviving Jewish synagogue in the city. The heritage site has been abandoned, and neither the owner nor the city authorities are willing to maintain it
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Deep Baltic (Deep Baltic) presents five miniatures from Vilis collection Lizergīnblūzs! Published by Orbīta Press and translated from Latvian by Will Mawhood. 🥷📷 🎮

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Here's the Basel Epigram, a 14th-century short text written in Prague and in Old Prussian – and the oldest document in any Baltic language.

What I'd not spotted before is an English connection to the word 'pēnega' here, translated as 'money', and so related to English 'penny'!

'Vulkan' matches, Kuldiga, 1920s - 1930s. #Latvia #Baltics

'In Kārsava, Rigans were “incomers”, and people round there didn’t understand why I, a “katoļička”, sang at the Orthodox church, because there it was all simple: Latvians automatically counted as Catholics, Russians were Orthodox.'

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Interesting linguistic perspective from a nonbinary writer in Estonia, where the local language does not have gendered pronouns: deepbaltic.com/2018/03/20/bei…

A religious day!

- met leaders of the Theology and Religious Studies school University of Tartu

- talked to pupils at Tartu Catholic School

- visited the excellent Old Believers Museum in Kolkja

Estonians may be among the 🌍's least religious people but it still shapes society.

🇬🇧🇪🇪

I remember when NATO tricked Russia into invading Old Livonia in 1558. Why can't they just leave Russia alone

ISS: Russian special services behind attack on Estonian minister's car
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