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A diplomat between two countries Arnolds Spekke as a cultural link between Italy and Latvia

This article highlights some of Spekke’s activities during his proxy as head of the Latvian legation in Italy during the Soviet period, and immediately after re-independence when he was dividing his time between Italy and the United States.

By Rosario Napolitano September 18, 2024

the years of fear the kgb building in riga

The purpose of this paper is to focus attention on the Stūra Māja [Corner House] of Riga and how the building was used. I have also conducted interviews, with both the former Latvian KGB Chief Edmunds Johanson, as well as the former Latvian dissident Leo Hiršsons.

By Rosario Napolitano November 10, 2017

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1. The Chernobyl Children. A generation growing up with radiological contaminations
  
  Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster Melanie Arndt, transl. Alastair Matthews (Cambridge University Press, 2025), 368 pages.
2. Expelled from Communist Poland. Polish Jews in Sweden since the 1960s
  
  Vi, de fördrivna. Historiska erfarenheter hos polska judar som kom till Sverige 1967–1972 [We, the exiled. Historical experiences of Polish Jews who came to Sweden 1967–1972] Martin Englund, Södertörn doctoral dissertations, Stockholm, Södertörns högskola, (2025), 322 pages.
3. Ecocide in Ukraine. An epistemological dimension of loss
  
  Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War Darya Tsymbalyuk, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025) 208 pages.
4. Tracing developments in 14 East European states since 1989 until today.
  
  East Central Europe since 1989. Politics, Culture and Society, Sabrina P. Ramet and Lavinia Stan, (Routledge: London and New York, 2025), 388 pages.
5. Åland’s autonomy. A particular case
  
  Reflexioner från landet som icke är – Sju essäer om oss människor och vårt samhälle [Thoughts from the land that is not – Seven essays about us human beings and our society] Bjarne Lindström, Hangö, Libraria, 2024, 172 pages.
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