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...production of Prokofiev's The Gambler at La Scala from June 16 to June 30. It starts with Alexei (played by Ukrainian Misha Didyk, hailed as "one of opera's most exciting young lyric tenors" by the BBC) gambling away diamonds belonging to his love Pauline (Latvian rising star Kristina Opolais), and things get magnificently tragic from there. www.teatroallascala.org by Mimi Murphy...
...around Diwaniyah. Camp Echo, the headquarters of Multinational Division Central-South, is a virtual Tower of Babel where more than 200 Americans and most of the 900-strong Polish force work and live alongside 100 Mongolians, 62 Romanians, 46 Armenians, 36 Bosnians, 27 Ukrainians, a Lithuanian, a Latvian and a bunch of Ugandan guards. Together they and their numbers posted in urban outposts endure frequent mortar and rocket attacks. Between June and July they were hit with at least 350 rockets and mortar shells, Leckrone said...
Exploring the entirety of this enormous market would take hours, but you will quickly home in on traditional Latvian delights like fragrant rye bread and piragi, a baked roll filled with bacon. In the meat pavilion, beef-carvers exchange banter while elsewhere honey vendors capitalize on Latvia's rich history of beekeeping. They actively court passersby with samples drawn, for instance, from buckwheat blossoms...
...Latvia, everything changed in 1994 when Russia withdrew the last of its military. Shortly afterward, the Latvian government began auctioning state-owned port facilities to American, Russian, Latvian and Norwegian companies. The port doubled in size as new container and passenger terminals sprang up. At its low ebb, in the early 1990s, only 1,000 ships entered the port each year; now more than 3,600 do so. Hermanis Cernovs, a naturalized Latvian born in Russia, has witnessed the transformation at first hand. When the Iron Curtain fell, he was commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine. Today, he organizes joint...
Even among the successful Baltic economies, some storm clouds are brewing. High growth rates have triggered fears of overheating, especially in the new democracies. Latvia's President Vaira Vike-Freiberga recently complained that Swedish banks are too generous with their loans, tempting Latvian consumers to load up on debt, and driving up the prices of everything from cars to property. Latvia's year-on-year inflation rate hit 8.9% in April, triggering devaluation rumors. Latvian loans are denominated in euros, so devaluing the national currency, the lat, would hit debtors hard. "Like any good party it has to come...