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NATO And EU Candidacy To Dominate Czech Visit By Latvian Presid

Latvia's efforts to join NATO and the European Union will be central to a visit here by Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga. more »

An Interview with the Ex-Minister.

"There are too little people in Lithuania who realize the importance of information technologies development", Rimantas Pleikys, the Communications and Informatics Minister of Lithuania, says. more »

Putin Admits Concern Over Milosevic

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted Saturday that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was becoming a problem, according to a German official. more »

Microsoft ready to send 64-bit Windows 2000 to developers

Microsoft has completed a near-final version of its 64-bit edition of Windows 2000 that will be sent to all software developers with Itanium prototype computers. more »

Compaq iPaq goes for big bucks on eBay

The iPaq is selling via online more »

Moldovan President Vetoes Election Law

Moldovan President Petru Lucinschi on Thursday vetoed a law that would end direct presidential elections. more »

Aggravation of Situation in Chechnya

"If 5-7 rebel leaders are not eliminated, the situation in Chechnya will be aggravated," former Interior Minister, a deputy of the Russian State Duma, Army General Anatoly Kulikov announced in an exclusive interview with RBC. more »

First Baltic Russian history museum

The newly formed Russian Baltic Party of Estonia plans to create Estonia's first Baltic Russian history museum next fall as part of its platform to improve life for Estonia's Russian minorities, said party board member Viktor Lanberg. more »

Poland To Hold Referendum On Joining EU from Late 2001

Polish citizens will be consulted on joining the European Union in a referendum to be held at the end of 2001 or in 2002, Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek said Monday. more »

Court’s orders

Two more former secret police in the Baltic states have been found guilty of Stalinist-era crimes against humanity and sentenced to prison. more »

Haider's Party Says No Czech EU Entry with Benes Decrees

The Austrian government nationalist Freedom Party (FPOe) of Joerg Haider still insists that the Czech Republic's EU entry is "impossible" unless the post-war Benes decrees are abrogated. more »

Electoral Manoeuvres Have Already Begun

The elections to the Seimas will begin in several months and today this event is mostly discussed in Mass media. The parties are preparing primarily electoral rolls and discuss their tactics. more »

Girls Turned Off By "Nerdy" Image Of IT

Girls and young women in the US are dissuaded from pursuing careers in the high-tech industry by violent electronic games, dull programming classes and the public image of the IT industry as a "nerdy", antisocial wordd. more »

Intel files suit against Intelnet

The Intel Corporation has filed a trademark legal suit against Intelnet, Inc., a firm which specialises in er... intelligent networks and fingerprint verification. more »

Polish, Lithuanian Presidents Meet

Presidents Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland and Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania attended on Saturday a re-enactment of the battle of Grunwald. more »

To Give People OwnershipOf Apartments For Communist Labor

Polish lawmakers approved Friday a controversial draft law that would compensate people for work carried out under the communist regime by giving them ownership of their apartments. more »

The report on "Patterns of Global Terrorism" for 1999

Azerbaijan rejected on Thursday a U.S. State Department report that the ex-Soviet state had been a hub for Moslem sympathisers. more »

De Beers Intends to Buy More Diamonds from Russia

De Beers, the world diamond monopoly, intends to buy more diamonds from Russia as part of its new strategy and to remain firm to its contractual obligations to Russia. more »

Lithuanian Banks and Privatisation.

In a few weeks an official list of the most profitable Lithuanian banks will be prepared. According to the latest data bankers can conclude that this year the incomes of the Lithuanian banks are lower than the last year. Privatisation continues. more »

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