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Our fascinating history

In March 1996, young Latvian journalist, Janis Domburs and publisher Juris Visockis have registered a new mass-media magazine «Балтийский курс» thus becoming the magazine’s “founding fathers”. The very first Russian language issue went into circulation in June 1996 with J. Domburs as its first editor-in-chief. 

Among the magazine’s inaugural team there were presently famous public figures: Ingus Berziņs, DELFI’s chef editor; Guntis Bojars, LTV’s journalist and former Diena’s chef editor; Inese Voika, lecturer in Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and former Delna Society’s head; Inese Gaika-Kuške from the Latvian State Chancelery, previously in OECD and KNAB; Ieva Skrastiņa-Aile, Jurmala City Council’s public relations head, former head of State Chancelery’s Communications Department.  

In 1998, J. Domburs invited Dr. Olga Pavuk to become his deputy editor. During all these years, journalists from leading business magazines in Estonia, Lithuania (e.g. Lietuvos rytas, Postimees, Delovie vedomosti) and other Baltic Region countries took part in making «Балтийский курс»/ The Baltic Course magazine interesting for the readers. For several yeras, Latvian cartunist Serge Tulenev’s drawings have been the Magazine’s asset.  

The first The Baltic Course magazine’s issue in English was published in 2000, devoted to the yearly European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, EBRD’s summit in Riga.

In 2000, one of the leading Latvian publishing houses, Preses nams/Mediju nams took over the magazine’s circulation, and Mrs. Olga Pavuk has become the chief editor of magazines’ two language versions.

In 2003, Cordex Media SIA was established to acquire the Magazine; after settling down the financial issues Mrs. Olga Pavuk has become the Magazine’s owner and chief editor.

The same year, Danish prof. Eugene Eteris from Rīgas Stradiņa Universitātē joined the magazine as its International Editor; since then, he was wextensively writing analitical articles on various European Union’s socio-economic issues.   

In 1998, the magazine’s created its internet archive with all web-versions of articles previously published (see magazine’s home page at www.baltic-course.com).  

In 2007, the magazine’s paper version ceased to exist and BK/BC has evolved into on-line publication; since January 2008, the BK/BC magazine is preparing the Baltic region daily business news web-portal with Ņina Koļako as its editor.

Our Round-tables

Since 2006, the Baltic-Course.com magazine, in cooperation with the Baltic International Academy, Latvian Employers Confederation and Diplomatic Economic Club organizes international round-tables with expert participants discussing the Baltic region’s contemporary politics and economy issue. Since then, twenty round-tables has been convened with O. Pavuk as permanent orgaiser and moderator.

All round-tables’s materials (review articles, comments and interviews) are available on Baltic-Course.com web-site; the round-tables’s thematic reviews are published on the Baltic International Academy’ website too.   

Our audience

The www.baltic-course.com magazine readers, according to Google’s account, are in all 193 UN member-states; there are as well about 30 per cent readers from Latvia, 10 per cent from correspondingly the US and Russia, 6 per cent from the UK and 4 per cent from correspondingly Estonia and Lithuania. On average, there are monthly about 80 thousand hits to the magazine’s materials arranged in 23 thematic rubrics. Besides, the BK/BC readers are going through about 140 thousand pages monthly.