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Inside the lands between - travel, culture, interviews, long reads, photography from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Villu Tamme, frontman of punk legends J.M.K.E., whose 1989 debut To The Cold Land has been voted the greatest album in Estonian history (Image: Ardo Ran Varres) deepbaltic.com/2026/07/16/t...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Map of the dialects of Lithuania proposed in 1965 by linguists Zigmas Zinkevičius and Aleksas Girdenis [Image: Renata3, used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence] deepbaltic.com/2026/06/08/h...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Linda Carrying a Stone” by Oskar Kallis, depicting an episode from the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg. Published when Estonia was under Russian imperial domination, around 20% of the original version was censored for being "nationalistic" deepbaltic.com/2026/04/30/f...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Catalogue of the Wystawa Nowej Sztuki (New Art Exhibition), organised in Vilnius by Lithuanian Vytautas Kairiūkštis and Pole Władysław Strzemiński, which laid the foundations for the Polish avant-garde [Image: Lithuanian National Archive of Literature and Art] deepbaltic.com/2024/11/08/o...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Most frequent surname found in every local authority in Latvia (names shown in the masculine plural form) [Image: Oficiālās statistikas portāls] deepbaltic.com/2026/04/16/f...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A drone photo of massive logging in Pupsi forest, Estonia [Image: Mati Kose] deepbaltic.com/2026/02/10/t...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A protest rally in Chicago in 1988 against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania (Image: Romualdas Požerskis, MO Museum Collection) deepbaltic.com/2025/12/19/a...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Fresco at Vilnius University of the 17th-century Polish poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (Motiejus Kazimieras Sarbievijus in Lithuanian) who wrote in Latin and spent most of his life in Lithuania (Image: Francis Young) deepbaltic.com/2025/11/11/h...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Jaan Anvelt, an Estonian Communist who led the Moscow-backed attempt to overthrow the Estonian government in December 1924. After the coup failed, Anvelt fled to Moscow, where he was beaten to death by the NKVD during Stalin's Great Purge. deepbaltic.com/2025/10/20/w...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Latvian poet Ivars Šteinbergs performs at a Dzejas dienas (Poetry Days) event at Bar DIDRO in the town of Kuldīga deepbaltic.com/2025/10/07/s...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A shot from the absurdist Latvian short film Journey to Tukums, released in 1992. deepbaltic.com/2025/08/25/y...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The reflection of Vilnius TV tower is clearly seen in a Soviet adaptation of Sartre's "Chameleon's Game", set in Paris The relatively "Western" Baltics were frequent sets for Soviet films portraying distant locations (Image: Lietuvos Kino Centras) deepbaltic.com/2020/03/17/t...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Composers Vladimir Martynov and Arvo Pärt (right) in Tallinn, November 1978 (Photographer unknown, possibly Hardijs Lediņš. Collection of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art) deepbaltic.com/2025/07/08/t...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
From Latvian photographer Vika Eksta's series "The Dream of the Sea", created off-season in the popular resort town of Pāvilosta (Image: Vika Eksta) deepbaltic.com/2025/03/31/d...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
First edition of Metūgės [“New Shoots”] by Lithuanian émigrée poet Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė, published in Toronto, harshly criticised by critics at the time for its "morals and eroticism" deepbaltic.com/2025/03/24/b...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Superman Boy" by Andrew Miksys - Vilnius, 1999 deepbaltic.com/2025/03/18/b...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Lake Adamova in the eastern Latvian region of Latgale. In the 1930s, under the authoritarian rule of Kārlis Ulmanis, it was renamed Kalnezers. "Latvianisation" of place names also took place elsewhere in Latgale during this period. (Image: Sirujs Enobs) deepbaltic.com/2025/02/24/t...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A former Baltic German manor in Veismaņi, near Cēsis in Latvia. (Image: Mike Collier) deepbaltic.com/2025/02/13/s...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In this advert from interwar Lithuania, Florance asks "doesn’t everyone dream of having teeth like this?" (Image: Tarpukurio Lietuvos Reklama) deepbaltic.com/2017/11/23/a...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Street scene in Pakruojis, Lithuania [Image: Jacob Mikanowski] deepbaltic.com/2024/12/15/g...
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Deep Baltic @deepbaltic.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The resolution in 1938 by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to extend the NKVD's operations against members of various nationalities, including Latvians, claimed to be spies and saboteurs deepbaltic.com/2024/11/29/t...
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