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 22, 2007 - Riga is Cleanest City in Europe
Oct 21, 2007 - NY Times Travel guides: 36 Hours in Riga, Latvia
Oct 19, 2007 - The Future Calling In Estonia, The Washington Post
Oct 16, 2007 - "Preserving Our Common Values," the official version of remarks given by Ambassador Bailey at the Latvian University
Sep 25- Oct 3, 2007 - The UN General Assembly meeting in New York: Statements by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
August 14, 2007 - "Baltic States Close Ranks With Georgia, Join U.S. to Investigate Missile Incident"
by Vladimir Socor
August 5, 2007 - Mart Laar Will Give Keynote Address at The Atlas Experience
Friday, March 2nd & 9th, 7:00 pm
Film Screening: Gender Montage: Paradigms in Post Soviet Space, 2002
Filmmakers examine the roles of gender and socioeconomic issues in the former Soviet Republics. By special agreement with The Network Women's Program of the Open Society Institute.
George Washington University
B-04A Gelman Library
2130 H St. NW, Washington DC
Admission: Free
2 March. Films from Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan 117min.
- Wishing for Seven Sons and One Daughter (Azerbaijan). Even today, daughters are still under-appreciated. Today, many families seek ultrasound to determine gender, opting for abortion if the child is found to be a girl
- Beauty of the Fatherland (Estonia). Two women - a girl scout leader and a beauty pageant official promote different views of femininity, however the two have more similarities than differences.
- Invisible (Georgia). Ethnic Azerbijanian women battle the double burden of gender and ethnicity in today's Georgia.
- Red Butterflies Where Two Springs Meet (Kyrgyzstan). A carpet maker becomes a legend, not only because of her designs but also because of her business acumen and independence.
9 Mach. Films from Lithuania, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan 136 min.
- Tomorrow Will Be Better (Lithuania). Four women with four different stories. An unemployed actress, An ambitious sales-woman. A struggling farmer. A professor.
- Silk Patterns (Mongolia). Despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of university students are women, the socioeconomic patterns of old persist.
- Live Containers (Tajikistan). Women as drug mules is not just a Western Hemispheric problem...
- Hack Workers (Uzbekistan). The hellish existenece of women rejected by family, custom and state.
- Power: Feminine Gender (Ukraine). Women find themselves sidelined by the feminisation of their own evolving political culture (Source Gender Montage)
