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...Kotryna Toropovaite, April 15 was meant to begin with a flight and end with a joyous reunion. After months of back-and-forth traveling between Vilnius, Lithuania, and London, the Lithuanian lawyer was finally moving to Britain to live with Eric, her boyfriend of eight months. Distance has never stood in the way of their love, but for the time being, a toxic plume of volcanic ash most certainly is. "All the flights are canceled from Vilnius to northern Europe," she says, after spending hours researching travel alternatives. "I could take a bus, but that will take 39 hours...
...Back in 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...
...Life in Vilnius is a giant poker game, played by madmen.” “Vilnius Poker,” a novel by late Lithuanian author Ricardas Gavelis, and recently translated into English by Elizabeth Novickas, sets up a metaphorical card game to puzzle even the most seasoned players. With four narrators at the table, each of whom bluffs, bets, and folds accordingly, Gavelis conducts a profound autopsy of Lithuanian identity garroted by Soviet rule. This ambitious endeavor is admirably achieved. Gavelis’ writing is a paragon of surrealist creativity and an intensely interesting read, filled with...
...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...
...That effort tops the agenda at Thursday's meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, just as it will at a major summit of NATO heads of government in Bucharest in April. Some U.S. officials are billing that meeting as a make-or-break effort for the future not just of the Afghanistan operation but of the Atlantic Alliance...