Chronic of the Baltic Countries

Based on my readings about the Baltic world as well as on my own experience there some years ago, this article addresses literary and cultural issues concerning Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Freed from Soviet yoke for almost three decades now, the Baltic countries do not play any important political role in our socalled globalized world. Worthy of being recorded is that politics is not everything, and that there will always be space for thriving human activities, no matter how oppressing the environment is – and that is exactly the case of the Baltic countries. Last but not least, I must express my gratitude to my colleagues and friends Professor Mikhail Uvarov and Professor Júlio Tadeu Carvalho da Silveira, without whose generous collaboration, etc.

Keywords: Literature, Reader, Baltic Countries, Culture, History.