Word: baltic
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...with 14 competitors from seven countries on Sept. 9 from Switzerland, the home of the previous year's winner. Because this would be the first Gordon Bennett race since the end of World War II in which former Soviet airspace would be accessible, organizers had contacted each of the Baltic States as well as Belarus and Ukraine to request permission for the balloons to cross their airspace. Pilots, after all, could not fully control where the winds took them. Having received approval from every government, including Belarus', the balloons ascended from Wil, near the Swiss city of St. Gallen...
...could touch off an amber rush as scientists and companies alike try to get their hands on nuggets of the golden polymer. The leader of the pack is Ambergene, which has spent the past two years "mining" ancient amber from 15 locations around the globe, from Burma to the Baltic Sea. Already, says president and co-founder Robin Steele, Ambergene scientists have identified filamentous fungi similar to those that have produced a distinguished line of antibiotics. They have also brewed batches of ale with ancient yeast. Beer buff Cano was named official taster of the new brew, dubbed Jurassic Amber...
...Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrevhas caused an uproar in the former Soviet Union. In remarks Tuesday at a defense and foreign policy council meeting, Kozyrev said that Russia will use its armed might to defend Russian nationals abroad. The statement immediately drew the ire of many in Ukraine, the Baltic states and other former Soviet republics with large populations of ethnic Russians. The states were quick to interpret the remarks as an indication ofRussian imperialist aspirations, but Kozyrev on Thursday professed bewilderment at the fuss, saying "What are the army and navy for if they can't protect our citizens...
...actually work together on several projects in Estonia related to the entertainment business--we're involved in marketing cinemas, casinos and nightclubs," says Rebane, former president of the Harvard Baltic Relations council...
...Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Bratislava, Berlin, in hundreds of towns and villages from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Jewish communities are re-emerging and coming together in a kind of Continental minyan, the quorum required for the holding of religious services. Synagogues and schools are rising again, some on the foundations of Jewish institutions dating from the Middle Ages. Jews are proudly calling themselves Jews once more, reviving traditions and cultures long buried in the ashes of Hitler's ovens. ``That now there is the possibility to be a Jew is mystical,'' says 18-year-old Igor Czernikow...