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Wales Baltic Society The Wales Baltic Society is a very friendly and welcoming organisation. If you have an interest in t Our inaugural meeting was held on 26th February 1991.

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The Wales Baltic Society (originally the Cardiff Baltic Society) was formed as a result of a meeting held on 31st January 1991 in response to the killings in Vilnius on 13th January 1991. The Objectives of the Society are:

1. To promote friendly links between the people of Wales and the people of the Baltic countries.

2. To support the continuing independence of the Baltic States.

3. To generate increased awareness of the Baltic countries by education, publicity and research. a) The Society includes people both with and without roots in the Baltic States
b) We meet about once a month. c) Speakers are invited and varied activities are organised, with a view to meeting the Society’s objectives. d) The Wales Baltic Society is affiliated to the United Nations Association, and it occasionally holds joint meetings with that Association, at the Temple of Peace, in Cathays Park, Cardiff. e) The members are kept informed of the future meetings, activities and anything else of interest, by means of newsletters from the Secretary. Patrons:

Mr Paul Flynn MP,
Rt Hon Dafydd Wigley, former MP and AM - now Honorary President of Plaid Cymru (The Party of Wales)

04/10/2026
03/10/2026

The BLA's 2026 Richard Samuel Memorial Lecture will be "The Fall of the USSR: The Baltic Factor" with Professor Robert Service. This in-person event will start at 18:30 on Tuesday, 13th October, and will be held at UCL's Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG. All members and friends of the BLA can register to attend by emailing the BLA at [email protected]. For those unable to attend in person, a link to a video of the event will on the BLA's website.

Professor Service is the author of several books on Soviet history and Russian politics and society. His latest work is The August Coup: The Destruction of the USSR and the Birth of New Russia. He is an emeritus professor at Oxford University, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and has now become an honorary professor at SSEES.

The role of the Baltics in the fall of the USSR was not confined to the shocking bloodshed in Vilnius or Riga in January 1991: politicians from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia played a prominent part in the democratic movement across the Soviet Union - and not solely in their respective countries. Freedom for the Baltic States was also a sticking point and bargaining chip in Soviet-US talks throughout these years. Whereas Gorbachev refused to acknowledge their independence, for personal reasons and political advantage Yeltsin agreed to this outcome. But did he expect the Baltic countries to stay out of Russia's orbit forever?

20/09/2026
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08/09/2026

Thank you all so much! You know who you are... Ieva x

19/08/2026

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18/08/2026

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18/08/2026

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