Word: riga
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...Vilnius, Toropovaite is still sorting out how she'll get to her boyfriend. She briefly had plans to take a train from Vilnius to Warsaw to Paris, but scratched that when France began shutting its airports. She now has a flight booked on Sunday that will take her to Riga, Latvia, where she will wait for five hours for a flight to London that may or may not take off. "I'm not optimistic," she says. "But I can't be angry at anyone. It's nobody's fault. This is a volcano...
...that is expected to shrink as much as 18% this year, the former Soviet nation enlisted the help of more than 500 towheaded beauties to lead a "Go Blonde" weekend on May 30-31. The feel-good extravaganza included sporting events, fashion shows and a parade through the capital, Riga, where rioting erupted in February over rising unemployment...
...KIIS survey revealed that 41% of Ukrainians are ready to hit the streets. "There is a crisis of trust in the authorities," says Volodymyr Fesenko, director of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies in Kiev. "There is a risk of a chain reaction leading to what happened in Riga," he adds, referring to when angry Latvians, protesting their government's handling of the crisis, tried to storm parliament in January...
...Lithuania BALTIC RIOTS Just days after clashes in the Latvian capital Riga, unrest triggered by mounting economic woes spread to neighboring Lithuania, where protesters in Vilnius hurled eggs and rocks through the windows of the Parliament building (above). After enjoying years of rapid growth, the two former Soviet republics have been pummeled by the global financial crisis; Latvia has experienced the sharpest economic reversal among E.U. nations. Discord over controversial reforms has imperiled their governments, with members of Latvia's ruling coalition calling for early elections...
...Yeah, Riga. Riga...