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English-Language Editorial Staff Quits Riga Paper, Launches Rival

Where: Riga, Latvia
September 12, 2009 at 4:31 PM | by Victor Ozols | 0 Comments

When I graduated from college back in (gulp) 1992, I packed my bags and moved to Riga, Latvia (pictured) to work at an English-language newspaper called The Baltic Observer. The Observer was an ambitious young paper launched by a handful of Latvian-Americans, Latvian-Canadians, and Latvian-Latvians a year earlier, and I was proud to be a part of it, chasing down stories about politicians, dissidents, and anybody doing anything interesting in the three Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

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