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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 11, 2025, a City of Toronto municipal park and community centre once again served as the venue for a Russian Victory Day event that has become one of the Kremlin’s most important public ...

Map of the disputed Arctic region where Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark and Norway have all been trying to assert jurisdiction over parts. Moscow’s occupation and annexation of Crimea has attracted ...

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.

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.