Aug 29, 2008 - Russia's Passportpolitik: Implications for the Baltic States and Beyond
Aug 18, 2008 - NATO's Hour
Aug 17, 2008 - Russia's 'Russia Problem' Also Causes Global Misery
Aug 7, 2008 - Voting in the Elections to the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania 2008
Aug 7, 2008 - Stalinism Was Just as Bad as Nazism
Jul 27, 2008 - The Clueless, Craven Boston Globe
Jul 26, 2008 - First Estonian civilian surgeon starts work in Afghanistan
Jul 25, 2008 - Latvian Commentary Assesses Russia's New Foreign Policy Document
Jul 25, 2008 - Morocco interested in Estonia's oil shale industry
Jul 24, 2008 - Collection of cancelled stamps provides aid to Lithuanian children
Jun 30, 2008 - Hackers Post Soviet Symbols on Lithuanian Sites
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
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)
