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	<title>The Lithuania Tribune &#187; Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
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		<title>Riga Conference 2011: Interview with Ojars Kalnins, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Latvia</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/24/iga-conference-2011-interview-with-ojars-kalnins-chairman-of-the-foreign-affairs-committee-of-the-parliament-of-latvia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuania Tribune has conducted an interview with Ojars Kalnins, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Latvia in the Riga Conference 2011. The interview was conducted on 17 September.

1. Lithuania and Poland are going through one of the most difficult periods in their relationship. Recently, Edward Lucas of The Economist said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riga Conference 2011: Interview with Ojars Kalnins, Latvian Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/20/riga-conference-2011-interview-with-ojars-kalnins-latvian-chairperson-of-the-parliamentary-committee-on-foreign-affairs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Ojars Kalnins, the Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of  the Parliament of Latvia gave an interview to the Lithuania Tribune.  We  talked about implications of the crises of the Lithuanian and Polish  relationship on the other Baltic States, Golovatov case, the Baltic  Unity and if the Baltic States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Foreign Country for 90 Years, By Ojārs Ēriks Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/01/20/a-foreign-country-for-90-years-by-ojars-eriks-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably don’t have a “policy” toward foreigners. Most people don’t. We just deal with ‘em as we meet them.
If you live in a city like London or New York it feels like everyone is a foreigner. Them or us in an ethnic sense doesn’t mean much in a melting pot; we all become strangers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ongoing Latvian saga</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/11/11/the-ongoing-latvian-saga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, I edited the revised and expanded translation of Uldis Ģērmanis’ legendary history of Latvia, “The Latvian Saga”. Since Ģērmanis had written the book in 1959 from Sweden and the story stopped with the Soviet occupation of Latvia during World War II, I wrote several additional chapters for this new edition to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweeting for votes in Latvia, by Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/09/22/tweeting-for-votes-in-latvia-by-ojars-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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The one thing you can’t say about voters in Latvia is that they lack for information. As we approach election day on October 2nd, Latvia’s 1,514,936 eligible voters have been talked at, written to, snail-mailed and e-mailed, pamphleted on the street, and proselytized on the airwaves. They’ve been told how to vote and who to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s the Economy&#8230;By Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/09/03/it%e2%80%99s-the-economy-by-ojars-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valdis Dombrovskis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=3286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1992, Bill Clinton won the U.S. presidential election because his top campaign advisor James Carville made everyone in the Clinton campaign repeat one sentence every morning when they woke up: “It’s the economy,stupid”.
This was an internal campaign theme intended to remind everyone that the number one priority of the election and the country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latvia; the peace and pacts of August, By Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/08/21/latvia-the-peace-and-pacts-of-august-by-ojars-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In August, Latvia marks three anniversaries worth noting. On August 11, 1920, Russia signed a peace treaty with Latvia. Nineteen years later, on August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. This promise of non-aggression between Stalin and Hitler led to one of the bloodiest wars in human history and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once Upon a Time in the White House, by Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/08/10/once-upon-a-time-in-the-white-house-by-ojars-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/?p=2989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago a Latvian prime minister and foreign minister met with an American president in the Oval Office of the White House. It was July 30, 1990, and Latvia was still an occupied country. Why did President George Bush meet with Ivars Godmanis and Jānis Jurkāns a year before Latvia restored its independence, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See it, believe it, by Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/21/see-it-believe-it-by-ojars-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago the Latvian Tourism Development Agency ran a promotional campaign called “You Won’t Believe it Until You See It!”, which talked about such things as blue cows, flying people and extraordinary singers. If that campaign were still up and running today, the number one topic would no doubt be the turn-around of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The wild blue yonder, By Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/05/the-wild-blue-yonder-by-ojars-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people don’t know that Latvia has mountains and even fewer know that they are blue. Actually, Latvia has several “Blue Mountains” on its landscape and even a popular play called “Blue Mountain Marta”. But only one of Latvia’s “blue mountains” can be seen from distant Estonia and is located in the Slītere National Park, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day the Sun stands still, By Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/06/24/the-day-the-sun-stands-still-by-ojars-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, toward the end of June, the sun stands still in Latvia. Actually, it stands still everywhere in the world, because that’s what “solstice” means in Latin – the moment when the sun stops moving in one direction and starts moving in another. What the rest of the world doesn’t know is that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Be Continued (A Diplomatic Success Story) By Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/06/14/to-be-continued-a-diplomatic-success-story-by-ojars-kalnins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was lobbying for Latvia’s independence in the late 1980’s, I used to tell Washington politicians that the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia were just a brief 50-year interruption in the history of the Latvian Republic. When Latvia’s independence was restored in 1991, I had the honour of joining one Latvian state institution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The time has come! BEREC chooses Rīga! By Ojārs Kalniņš</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/06/01/the-time-has-come-berec-chooses-riga-by-ojars-kalnins-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The choice of Rīga yesterday as the site for the secretariat of the newly established Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) is the second piece of good news Latvia has enjoyed this week. The other good news was that Latvia’s blondes have decided to make their “Blinde Parade” an annual event.
The 2nd Annual [...]]]></description>
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