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The Baltic Course
Url:Magazine's website
Type:online magazine
Language:English, Russian
Founded:1996 (as a paper magazine)
Editor:Olga Pavuk
Employees:5
Current Status:Inactive

The Baltic Course was a pan-Baltic business magazine. Its editor-in-chief was Olga Pavuk.[1]

History

The magazine was founded in 1996 by Latvian journalist and initially was published only in Russian. In 1998, Olga Pavuk joined the magazine as an assistant editor and The Baltic Course was launched in English in 2000. A year later, the magazine was bought by publishing house Preses nams, with Pavuk becoming the editor-in-chief of magazine's both language versions.[2]

in 2007, the magazine moved online and ceased to be published on paper. In January 2008, a website of business information and analytics about the Baltic States was launched in both English and Russian. After going online, the magazine reported having 70–100 thousand unique readers a month from all 213 world's countries. In 2020, 40% of the magazine's website visitors were from the U.S., about 30% came from Latvia, 8% – from Russia, and 4% from both Estonia and Lithuania.[2]

In 1 January 2021, the magazine stopped publishing new articles, while vowing to continue keeping its website and archive of previous articles online.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Magazine Baltic-course.com celebrating 20th anniversary . https://web.archive.org/web/20210115130413/https://www.dec.lv/index_en.php?id=2895/ . Diplomatic Economic Club . 2 December 2020 . 15 January 2021.
  2. Web site: Pavuk . Olga . 30 December 2020 . On the verge of its 25th anniversary, The Baltic Course leaves business media market . The Baltic Course . 13 January 2021.