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

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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Estonia’s student resistance movement built a British NATO base in Estonia in 1982. And, of course, they wrote a song about it. This week, Britain’s prime minister is heading to Ukraine, and the UK ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago this month, as the world’s attention was focused on Nazi German troops that were marching down the Champs-Élysées in Paris, The Soviet Union invaded Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, ...

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.

Fifty years ago, a white haired woman stood on a stage in Bad Godesberg, a small town south of Germany’s Cold War capital, Bonn. She stood for twenty minutes as the crowd stomped and applauded her ...

The October local elections marked a transformation in Estonian politics. The Center Party, which traditionally dominated the major cities’ politics, lost a significant vote share. Smaller parties on ...

Today is the last day before Christmas, known as Þorláksmessa (‘The Mass of St. Þorlákur,’ Iceland’s patron saint). The day is celebrated by eating skata, putrefied (or fermented) skate and buying ...

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 ...