In this era of global tension with Russia, inevitably attention returns to Narva. “Is Narva next,” a popular question raised throughout the past ...

I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty years, as an activist during the Cold War, as a journalist, and at think-tanks.¹ I argue that: Russia is a revisionist power; It has the ...

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In the late 1990s, a now-legendary Russian political satire program called Kukly (“puppets” in English) used a cast of caricatures to lampoon Russian parliamentarians and President Boris Yeltsin. It ...

I’m aboard the Riga-Daugavpils train, and we’re rattling along in an unhurried way from Latvia’s capital to its second-largest city; a distance of roughly 140 miles that takes us around four hours.

The similarities between Hitler’s Germany and Putin’s Russia are striking – and thoroughly disturbing. Will an increasingly stressed Putin push his country towards war, as Hitler did? Or will his ...

Will Mawhood follows up his visit to Latvia’s most Russian city, Daugavpils, with a visit to one of its most Latvian, Kuldiga, for UpNorth Stand in Kuldīga’s main square on a sunny day and you could ...

During my years at school, maps hung on our classroom walls on which the Finnish borders were clear, as were those of the Soviet Union; Estonia however, did not appear on the map. A country that is ...

In a filmed promo clip uploaded to the Twitter account of an editor at Canada’s Maclean’s Magazine on Monday, new Canadian PM, Justin Trudeau, was asked which of the Baltic nations is his favourite.

Author and former party secretary of Finland’s Centre Party Jarmo Korhonen has written a book about Finland’s post war history and former Finnish President, Mauno Koivisto: “Struggle of Power – Mauno ...

After giving a keynote speech at the “Necropolis of Communist Terror” international conference, held jointly by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and Memorial in Tallinn, British journalist ...