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The Baltics in the News

May 2, 2008 - Estonia, Lithuania hold energy-security talks

Apr 30, 2008 - Lithuania's president urges Baltic unity in relations with Russia

Apr 27, 2008 - A year on, jury out on economic harm of Estonia's row with Russia

Apr 24, 2008 - Latvian Leader Talks Country’s Future

Feb 26, 2008 - Estonia's President Sounds the Alarm

Feb 7, 2008 - Get Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius on the Monopoly game map!

Feb 6, 2008 - Saakashvili: Estonia is the most successful model for a transition society

Jan 16, 2008 - President Bush's Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the US-Baltic Charter

Jan 16, 2008 - The Baltic Model. By MARIS RIEKSTINS and RONALD ASMUS

Dec 21, 2007 - Baltic states first of new Schengen members

Dec 18, 2007 - US welcomes Latvia-Russia border treaty

Nov 30, 2007 - Fraud, intimidation and bribery as Putin prepares for victory
The Guardian

Nov 26, 2007 - Estonian defense leaders to visit USA

Nov 11, 2007 - As it rises, Russia stirs Baltic fears
International Herald Tribune
by Adam B. Ellick

Oct 19, 2007 - The Future Calling In Estonia, The Washington Post

 

U.S.-Baltic Foundation

Suvari, MenaSuvari, Mena

Suvari was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the daughter of Candice, a Greek American nurse, and Ando Süvari, an Estonian-American psychiatrist. She has 3 older brothers, 1 of them in the US army. By the age of twelve, Suvari was modeling; she starred in a Rice-A-Roni commercial by the age of thirteen. Attended Providence High School, in Burbank, California, class of 1997.

Suvari spent her early years in a stone mansion that she insists was haunted.She and her brothers saw several apparitions over the years. The family later relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, where her three older brothers lined up to attend the Citadel. Meanwhile, Mena was entertaining dreams of becoming an archaeologist, astronaut or doctor, when a modeling agency stopped by her all-girls school to offer classes. By the time she started acting, she had been modelling for the New York-based Wilhelmina agency for five years.

Career

Suvari made appearances in television shows such as Boy Meets World and ER at the age of fifteen and sixteen respectively. In 1999, she starred in the Oscar-winning American Beauty and the popular American Pie. Suvari was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, for her role in American Beauty.

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