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

Photo: Jens Schicke courtesy of the Canadian Embassy in Berlin. Text of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s keynote address delivered at April 1, 2026, “Defending Democracy’s Frontline Defenders” event at thte ...

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 ...

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 ...

After giving a keynote speech at the “Necropolis of Communist Terror” international conference, held jointly by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and Memorial… The Northern European / ...

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 ...

Keynote addressed delivered by Garry Kasparov on September 12, 2019, in Toronto at the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 80th Anniversary (“The Black Ribbon Day Conference ...

When Swedish television broadcast a film based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the seventies, Finland shut down the channels that broadcast the film from ...

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 ...

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 ...

A self-declared candidate for the upcoming Estonian Presidential election, Tarmo Soomere, has suggested that Estonia’s security chief should call his Russian colleague on an annual basis. Soomere is a ...

The most important strategic goal of Estonian foreign and security policy is to maintain and strengthen the allied space of democratic countries, at the heart of which lies the United States of ...