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By: deepbaltic on Friday, December 19, 2025
19.12.2025 12:41
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This image depicts Countess Emilia Plater, a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus, leading a combat unit during the November Uprising in 1831.
Emilia Plater (Poland-Lithuania): A Countess who commanded an infantry company in the November Uprising against the Russian Empire. (1831). #InternationalWomensDay #IWD
Wandering around in Voleri in the summer - like a lot of riverside/island Riga, a place where industry and almost rural landscapes exist in mildly surreal juxtaposition.
For my project about the islands of Riga (especially Kundziņsala) which I hope will be done before too long
A large, three story building half in sunshine. It's on a cobbled street, and has a huge Roman-style pillared entrance.
Tartu is beautiful, sunny, full of loudmouth sparrows, and has snow. Oh, it's also cheap, so all of the essential boxes ticked. The university building makes a statement.
Lake Pühajärv (1918–1920) by Estonian painter and pioneer of modernism, Konrad Mägi (1878-1925).
Oil on canvas
84 × 102 cm
Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
On Women’s Day, I want to tell you about Magdė Bankaitė. During the Lithuanian press ban 1864-1904, she smuggled Lithuanian books across the Prussian-Russian border. Lost all her teeth in an interrogation, deported to Siberia and carried on once back. Heroine died in a shelter for homeless.
a map showing kaliningrad oblast between lithuania and poland. that's the joke. thank you for reading
i was looking at the map because of the war stuff and was surprised to find Russia is smaller than both of its neighbors, lithuania and poland. for some reason i assumed it was really big
Time series graph showing the Baltic Sea annual maximum ice extent in 1900-2026.
The sea ice extent in the Baltic Sea probably reached its maximum on 20 February 2026, when the extent was 181,000 km².
Based on the maximum, this was the most widespread ice cover in the Baltic Sea since 2011, and overall the 5th harshest ice winter in the 21st century.
Black and white vintage photograph of a man in a collared shirt and striped tie, standing between a girl with bobbed hair and a young boy, all looking at the camera.
Jan Zwartendijk was not a diplomat. He was a businessman from Rotterdam, born in 1896, running the Lithuanian branch of Philips💡 in Kaunas. He lived there with his wife and three children. Stable job. Ordinary life. Then Europe collapsed.
#EternalLight
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We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
Konstantin Päts. President of Estonia. After they "asked to join USSR", he was declared mad and treated for the delusional disorder of thinking he was who he was. Died in an asylum in 1956.
That's actually true btw.
One of them Andrei Lankov was listed persona non grata in Latvia, still entered the country, was detained and expelled to Estonia, which was the next destination of his North Korea lecture tour.
The first of my coverage from the Boston Baltic Film Festival: three highlights from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
bostonhassle.com/bbff-dispatc...
The surreal video to the 2018 single Liūdnos Akys ("Sad Eyes") by Vilnius-based group Garbanotas, described by Maarja Merivoo-Parro as "something you would put on in your car if you happened to go on an end-of-the-world road trip"
deepbaltic.com/2019/04/02/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKC...
about a year ago the NYT referred to "chlodnik litewski" as a "Polish soup" and i find it personally insulting that the Americans have no idea how close they came to reigniting the Vilnius Conflict.
Btw, today is Independence Day in Estonia. While bit tainted by russia on the other side shows winning a war against russia is very much possible
P.S Estonia did two in one, both russian and German (proxy) empires
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia...
I’m quoted in today’s @thetimes.com on the subject of the strange phenomenon of Litvinism
Who wants to be a millionaire, Capital of East European country of Estonia, selected answer Riga
Puts Australian TV on. Instantly winces.
Pictures (and one video) of driving on Estonia's ice roads (jääteed) across the frozen sea near Haapsalu, courtesy of Adam Cullen
www.instagram.com/balticsunder...
The European Commission will today announce plans to invest in EU regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine that have been hit economically by the war.
But the strategy stops short of putting money from the bloc’s current budget on the table.
Happy Independence Day "Lithuania"! Here is a picture of you peacefully leaving Russia in 1991, for which you don’t show enough gratitude.
Russia is the leading provider of European independence days.
#OTD in 1387 the formal baptism of Lithuania took place in Vilnius - here's Archbishop Bodzanta of Gniezno (under whose jurisdiction Lithuania fell) with a massive font
A drone photo of massive logging in Pupsi forest, Estonia
[Image: Mati Kose]
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❄️ These capitals are really snowing off 😉
#Tallinn, #Riga and #Vilnius each got a fresh winter coat, perfectly captured by Copernicus Sentinel‑2 from orbit.
A reminder that even familiar cities look completely different under a blanket of snow!
Quite Baltic
Backstreets of Vilnius.
#photography #Snow #Lithuania
"In Estonian, “Lehetu” translates to “without leaves”. I used to find this a funny name: completely inappropriate to the reality of a village where it was a pleasure to walk in nature"
deepbaltic.com/2026/02/10/t...
#Corruption remained considerably lower in #Estonia than in #Latvia and #Lithuania in 2025, according to Transparency International's latest Corruption Perceptions Index. Estonia ranked 12th on the index, followed by Lithuania on 28th and Latvia on 37th place.
Mural By Ēriks Caune Riga, Latvia
Mural By Ēriks Caune
Riga, Latvia
#CatStreetArt
#MenWithCats
