http://allaboutlatvia.com Serpentine Percipience Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:56:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AllAboutLatviahttp://feedburner.google.com RIGA – When Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Baltic Way, I couldn&#8217;t help but think about the puzzle that is the Baltic mentality. Looking at sheer numbers, Latvia should have had a revolution a long time ago. The economy is expected to contract by the record-breaking 18 percent this year. [...] <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ChuYbeQ8vyGXHKDMfKNbh8-I9gI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ChuYbeQ8vyGXHKDMfKNbh8-I9gI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ChuYbeQ8vyGXHKDMfKNbh8-I9gI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ChuYbeQ8vyGXHKDMfKNbh8-I9gI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllAboutLatvia/~3/Y_NrobP6e7Y/ http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/987/divided-we-fall/ <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9JDp83fIpVkD2GIG9YDOUozSDyo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9JDp83fIpVkD2GIG9YDOUozSDyo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9JDp83fIpVkD2GIG9YDOUozSDyo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9JDp83fIpVkD2GIG9YDOUozSDyo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllAboutLatvia/~3/o8b5OPqf5Tg/ http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/979/gay-pride/ RIGA – Two young Russian men climbed aboard a bus that I was taking back home from a busy work day. Both are in the late 20s - one was carrying around a one-year-old boy. The two guys spoke loudly to each other, which is an abnormality in the country where everyone is trying to [...] <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/q7lCMtpOMni46aVh3R89KT4xDbs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/q7lCMtpOMni46aVh3R89KT4xDbs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/q7lCMtpOMni46aVh3R89KT4xDbs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/q7lCMtpOMni46aVh3R89KT4xDbs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllAboutLatvia/~3/cHUi__SjOHk/ http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/978/the-linguistic-enviornment/ RIGA – In the heat of the 2007 municipal reform aimed at redrawing lines of local governments, Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis (left) received a gift - the globe of Latvia. Across the two continents, the word &#8220;Latvia&#8221; spreads from China to Great Britain. In a way, it represents the Latvian worldview. One could not find [...] <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Sk7ijQ8SQe77UM_8EFP8WSbrQLs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Sk7ijQ8SQe77UM_8EFP8WSbrQLs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Sk7ijQ8SQe77UM_8EFP8WSbrQLs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Sk7ijQ8SQe77UM_8EFP8WSbrQLs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AllAboutLatvia/~3/oMCbaswKSew/ http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/972/the-empire-that-never-was/