The Tallinn Card has been re-launched this year and offers some unbeatable savings on museum entry, public transport and discounts in shops and cafes, along with lots of new goodies to make sure your trip to this magical Baltic state is one to remember.
The news portal Delfi voices scepticism over a new youth protection law passed by the Lithuanian parliament…
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US president Barack Obama begins his first state visit to the Arab World today (03.06.2009). The expectations are immense. After meetings with King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Middle East peace process, Obama will travel to Egypt on Thursday, where he will deliver a speech to the Muslims of the world.
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Global oil prices have risen sharply in the past few weeks. In the daily To Ethnos Giorgos Delastik takes a critical view of this new development:
"In mid-February the [barrel] was at just 32.70 dollars. … Last week the price rose to over 65 dollars. That's a hundred percent increase in the space of three months. What happened? The rise in the price of oil is all the more distressing and, according to the rules of the market that supposedly govern it, unjustifiable. For two things are happening that would tend to reduce it rather than increase it. The first is that global demand for oil is constantly sinking. … At the same time the oil reserves of the major consumer countries are very large. … The explanation for this mystery is simple: the hundreds of billions that the banks in Europe and the US received from governments have not just saved them. Now they have money they've started to speculate on oil prices."
The left-liberal daily La Repubblica describes the phenomenon of self-made literary criticism on the Internet using the example of the blog aNobii and evaluates the accessibility of this form of criticism as positive:
"Technically the website aNobii is a large virtual bookstore, a melting pot for an infinite number of other bookstores. …
It could be described as the 'Meetic [online partner portal] of paper', where it is not singles who meet, but readers who want to exchange views on books.
… But as always the rules that apply beyond the net don't apply on the Internet. By comparison with other media the Internet cannot compete as a platform for the launching of bestsellers. But it is an excellent tool for confronting a reader with a work and persuading him to engage with a novel he wouldn't have dreamed of reading otherwise. Thanks to the enthusiasm of other web users he can discover new literary works. This is not possible with TV or paper."
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Ninety years ago a ban was introduced in Finland on the production of drinks with an alcohol content of over 2 percent.
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Perturbed over Sony’s “Hanuman: Boy Warrior” videogame and further vexed by stiff-necked attitude of Sony officials, various Hindu groups have given worldwide boycott call against Sony PlayStation products. | more… |
Visa regime should not shut ordinary citizens of Belarus off from the European Union (EU), former President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski and Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius agreed at their meeting on Friday. | more… |
