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6 September 2010 - The GAC Group GAC Group has strengthened its Baltic Sea region coverage with the amicable acquisition of leading Finnish ship agent, John Nurminen Navis Oy (JNN).

Two Danish space enthusiasts have failed in their first attempt to send up a privately built rocket into space.

Vilnius - The Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia played host Monday to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel's first stop was in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where she held talks with President Dalia Grybauskaite.

Divers who found what's believed to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.

Two Danish space enthusiasts have failed in their first attempt to send up a privately built rocket into space. Their spokeswoman, Sophie Dalgaard, said a fuse problem stopped the launch of the 30-foot-long rocket Sunday from a barge near the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. She said they will try again but did not say when.

Vilnius - The Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia prepared to play host Monday to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The ex-Soviet Baltic states are still suspicious of Russia, whilst under Merkel Germany has distanced itself somewhat from the close relationship with Moscow propounded by ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

Even though the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which aims to bring Siberian gas directly to Germany under the Baltic Sea bypassing Ukraine, makes Kiev uneasy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych pledged to work together to modernize transit gas pipelines in the former Soviet republic, a move that could make other future bypasses like South Stream and Nabucco ...

Divers salvaged the world's oldest drinkable beer from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea Thursday, just days after work began to retrieve dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, local officials said. "We believe these are by far the world's oldest bottles of beer," Rainer Juslin, a spokesman for...

SOCHI, September 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the South Stream pipeline would be as quickly as Nord Stream. “We have started building the gas pipeline on the Baltic seabed, and gas will start flowing by this pipeline next year. We are working fast.