Baltic states

Gooch, G. D. (1995). Environmental beliefs and attitudes in Sweden and the Baltic states. Environment and Behavior 27 513-539. 

Higher Education was formed 1988 and I was its chairman from the interim-istic board of 1988 until its Helsinki conference in August 1991. I had for two years — with no success since it was not politically correct at that time — tried to open the association for universities (only institutional membership was allowed) from the Baltic states. At the Helsinki conference we had, however, many Baltic participants (and also Russians and Belarusians) and they were very concerned about what was going on in their home countries those days. And the Finnish radio and TV did not provide much information. But CNN was a good source of information. 

Lofgren, S., Gustafson, A., Steineck, S., and Stahlnacke, P. (1999). Agricultural development and nutrient flows in the Baltic states and Sweden after 1988. Ambio 28, 320—327. 

Figure 1 Phanerozoic carbon isotope record. Mass extinction intervals are shaded in gray (widths do not correspond to durations of inserts) (a) global marine carbonate record (after Veizer et al, 1999) (b) marine carbonate record from the Late Ordovician of the Baltic States (after Brenchley et al, 1994) (c) Late Devonian marine organic carbon record from New York State (after Murphy et al, 2000) (d) Late Permian marine carbonate record from China (after Bowring etal, 1998) (e) Late Triassic marine organic carbon record from Canada (after Ward etal, 2001) (f)Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary record of the carbon isotopic difference between fine fraction and benthic carbonate (left panel), between shallow dwelling planktonic and benthic foraminifera (open symbols, right panel) and between more deeper dwelling planktonic and benthic foraminifera (filled symbols, right panel) from the south Atlantic...

Variations in use between ethnic groups have also been reported within CEECs. In the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, for example, 1998 data show that young Macedonians tend to inject heroin whereas ethnic Albanians are more likely to smoke it. Similar differences have been reported with the Russian ethnic minority in the Baltic States and with the Roma community in Bulgaria. 

In the last four years, all synthetic drugs have grown in popularity — particularly in the three Baltic States, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia — and have become an integral part of youth dance culture. 

If the development of the sea state starts during offshore winds leeward of the coasts, the wave heights will increase in the direction of the open sea (see Fig. 7.5), and the fetch is calculated from the distance to the coast. In this context, it should be noted that the dimensions of the wind field must be such that the width of the field must be at least equal to its length (Quandt, 1980). In the Baltic Sea, such conditions are found only for easterly winds off the coast of the Baltic states and for southerly winds off the Polish coast. 

A map that includes areas exposed to ground swells in the Baltic Sea can be found in Brauner et al. (2003). Such areas are in particular the Polish coast in case of northerly winds and the coast and harbors of the Baltic states in case of south westerly to north westerly winds. 

Olenin, S., 2005. Ivasive Aquatic Species in the Baltic States. Monograph. Leppakoski, E., Minchin, D., (Eds.), Klaipeda University Press, Klaipeda. 

Since 1974 the IBSFC underwent a series of structural and organizational changes, first due to the end of the Soviet Union and the subsequent increase of member states of the IBSFC from the Baltic states, and soon after due to extension of the European Community. As a result, the IBSFC shrunk from 8 to 6 members when Sweden and Finland joined the EU in 1995 (IBSFC, 1995). When eventually the Baltic States and Poland)oined theEU in 2004 the organization consisted only of two members, the EU and the Russia. As a consequence the IBSFC was dissolved on January 1, 2006. 

The Baltic states remain connected with the old USSR power grid, both directly to Russia and via Belarus. Reflecting changing geopolitical alignments these states now seek greater westward connection, particularly to Poland and hence to Western Europe. 

From 1940 until 1991 the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were constituent republics of the Soviet Union. As such, and in contrast to the Romanian experience, they fell completely under the centralized industrial policy of the communist government in Moscow. These command-and-control policies favored large-scale industrial investments capable of serving the needs of the Soviet Union as a whole, with little sympathy for... 

On September 6, 1991 the Soviet Union recognized the independence of the three Baltic states. Only a few weeks later the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist, with the dissolution of the Supreme Soviet on December 26, 1991. 

When the German Government wanted to evacuate refugees from the Baltic States in 1939 in a hospital ship, they removed its markings and operated it as an ordinary liner. See Mossop 1947, p. 399. 

The floating complex for CW neutralisation appears to be the only acceptable option, as neither the former Allies nor the Baltic states will agree to have such production on their territory. 

It seems that the settlement of the problem to avert emergency situations and to ensure ecological safety during the elimination of CW dumps would be most reasonably organised in two stages and under the supervision of an inter-governmental control body consisting of representatives of the Baltic states, Russia and other developed countries, participants of the Chemical Weapons Convention... 

Thus, hydrolysis, polycondensation, and microbiological destruction are those processes, which are able to render harmless sunken chemical weapons under natural conditions without the participation of man. It is thought that exactly the above considerations (along with the absence of cases of serious poisoning) are the reason for the rather indifferent attitude of the governments and the public of the developed Baltic states - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Germany - to the problem of sunken ammunition. 

In Europe, flax was traditionally grown, processed, and manufactured locally with the Baltic States known for linseed and fiber and Northern Ireland for fine linen... 

Ribes nigrum (family Crossulariaceae) Commonly known as blackcurrant and distributed in temperate regions. It is cultivated in Europe, including the Baltic States. The oil is known as nirbine oil and used in various industries. 

The industrialized world consists of about 59 countries, all with a total populations of about 0.9 billion people, about one-sixth of the total world population. In contrast, about 5 billion people live in approximately 125 low- and middle-income countries. The remaining 0.4 billion live in countries in transition, which include the Baltic states, eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (1). Today, our world produces food for 6.39 billion people (Fig. 1.1). Yet statistics show that many people go to bed hungry every night. Each year the food crisis intensifies and more and more people go hungry. 

The PHARE Programme is a European Community initiative to help the countries of central Europe and the Baltic states to join the European Union in the near future (Table 23-11). 

A key development in this respect was the signature by the European Commission of an important contract with CEFIC to study the impact of the Commission s White Paper on the preparation of the Associated Countries of Central and Eastern Europe for integration into the Internal Market of the Union, especially in the area of harmonization of chemical legislation. The contract applied to Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, the three Baltic States, Romania and Bulgaria. 

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