The Baltic Course

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The Baltic Course
Type of site
online magazine
Available in English, Russian
Founded1996 (as a paper magazine)
Founder(s) Jānis Domburs  [ lv ]
EditorOlga Pavuk
Employees5
URL Magazine's website
Current statusInactive

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

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History

The magazine was founded in 1996 by Latvian journalist Jānis Domburs  [ lv ] 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]

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References

  1. "Magazine Baltic-course.com celebrating 20th anniversary". Diplomatic Economic Club. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Pavuk, Olga (30 December 2020). "On the verge of its 25th anniversary, The Baltic Course leaves business media market". The Baltic Course. Retrieved 13 January 2021.