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Kalev Stoicescu

Kalev Stoicescu

Kalev Stoicescu, a former Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence official, took a position as a researcher at the International Centre for Defence Studies on 11 August 2014. Among other fields, Stoicescu will specialize in issues related to Russian foreign and domestic policy, as well as developments in the field of the military, the economy, the media and minorities affairs. Stoicescu served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1991-2000, including as ambassador to the OSCE and ambassador to US and Canada. He was a member of the Estonian delegation in border negotiations with Russia and Latvia. He worked for the Ministry of Defence from 2002-2014, first as civilian-military cooperation department head and then, from 2007, as counsellor on defence policy at the Estonian Embassy in Paris.

Analysis, Estonia, Feature, Latvia, Lithuania, RussiaJuly 15, 2016<July 15, 2016

Russia’s Possible Reaction to NATO’s Deployment of Defensive Forces in the Eastern Flank

Russia’s sudden, brutal and illegal military actions against Ukraine since 2014 prompted NATO to take counter-measures that it did not contemplate undertaking – at…

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Analysis, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, RussiaApril 21, 2016<April 21, 2016

Russia May Wish to Provoke a Serious Incident before NATO’s Summit in Warsaw

The Kremlin pretends officially that it does not comprehend the Baltic and Polish “paranoia“ concerning their perceived Russian threat and demand for significantly increased…

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Putin’s Syrian Gambit
Analysis, News, RussiaOctober 6, 2015<October 6, 2015

Putin’s Syrian Gambit

Russia and Estonia exchanged Eston Kohver for Aleksei Dressen on 26 September 2015 at the Koidula – Kunitshina Gora border checkpoint. An ordeal lasting…

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Analysis, Feature, Russia, ViewpointDecember 12, 2014<December 12, 2014

Putin’s Political and Ideological Struggle With The West

Russia’s confrontation with the West seems to have entered into a new, existentialist phase: a fierce political and ideological battle that the Kremlin apparently…

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The Abduction of Eston Kohver: Consequences and Significance
Analysis, Estonia, RussiaSeptember 17, 2014<September 17, 2014

The Abduction of Eston Kohver: Consequences and Significance

At around 9:00 am on September 5th, Internal Security Service (Kaitsepolitsei) officer Eston Kohver was abducted by representatives of the Russian Federal Security Service…

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