Controversial YLE Reporter: Estonian Officer Kohver Is A Spy
YLE’s, Tallinn correspondent, Risto Vuorinen, has claimed that Estonian border officer, Eston Kohver, who was abducted by Russian agents from Estonian territory last year…
Rising Fear: The Elimination of Russia’s Activists at Home and Abroad
Timeline of Russian Assassinations Three months after Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov was murdered in Moscow, his colleague and friend, Vladimir Kara-Murza awoke today…
Twisted Muses: Hitler’s and Putin’s Pianists
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….
Finnish Newspaper Promotes Anti-Estonian Stereotyping
Finland’s leading daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, published an online poll last week, asking readers to suggest and vote on derogatory nicknames for Estonians. Estonian…
Canadian Trans-Atlantic Sauna Dub Comes Home To Tallinn
Inspired by the tranquility of remote lakeside saunas, the ambiance of a northern Ontario forest in summertime and distant Estonian-Nordic culture, Heiki Sillaste has…
Timeline: The Nordic Roots of The Charlie Hebdo Massacre
USE YOUR MOUSE OR FINGER TO SCROLL THROUGH THE UPNORTH INTERACTIVE TIMELINE ABOVE In September 2005, Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten became the first western publication…
A Timeline of Renewed Finlandization
Tracking Finnish foreign policy as it ricochets wildly between East and West has become a challenge for even the most seasoned observers of Finnish…
NATO must react to Russian incursions in Estonia
If reports emerging out of Russia and Estonia are correct, the Russian Federation has now violated EU borders and those of a NATO partner,…
Midnight In The New Century: 76 Years After The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Today marks the seventy-sixth anniversary of the Hitler-Stalin pact that triggered the Second World War and thrust Europe into an orgy of unspeakable violence,…