New crackdown on ‘undesirable’ foreign organizations becomes law with Putin’s signature
byTensions between Russia and the West reached a higher pitch over the weekend when President Vladimir Putin signed into law a vice-like new crackdown…
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No ‘Frozen Conflicts’ Will Be Resolved While Russia has Veto in UN Security Council, Vike-Freiberga Says
byVaira Vike-Freiberga, the former president of Latvia, points to an inconvenient truth that few want to recognize: no frozen conflicts in the former Soviet…
Classic Latvian Work About The Gulag Published in English
byOne of the most powerful accounts ever given of life in Stalin’s Gulag has finally been published in English. “Suddenly, a Criminal” by Melanija…
As in 1939, Kremlin Said Mulling ‘Preventive Occupation’ of the Baltic States
byPeople of decency and good will around the world have been horrified by Vladimir Putin’s defense this week of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which made Hitler…
Between the Nazi Hammer and the Soviet Anvil
byListen to Finland. And to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; to Czechs and Slovaks; to Belarussians, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Tatars and others. That is how…
A New Cold War?
byDavid Kramer, a senior director at the McCain Institute for International Leadership and the former president of Freedom House, responds to some popular assertions…
European Leaders Snub Putin and Will Join Polish Victory Day Commemoration
byWestern leaders snub Putin’s extravagant Victory Day celebration to attend Polish commemoration as Kremlin aggression casts dark shadow over 70th Anniversary Western leaders are…
KIWA and Soviet Hippies in New York City
byOn a cold March afternoon in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Vinegar Hill, Estonian artist KIWA smoked one last cigarette before entering The Department of…
How the collapse of the rule of law in Russia led to a war in Europe
byAdapted from remarks given by Kyle Parker to JBANC’s conference, “History Repeated: Baltics and Eastern Europe in Peril?” April 18, 2015, Washington, DC Russia’s…
Funked Up East: The Groovy Side of The Iron Curtain
byIt’s not a rare thing to be into back catalogue music. To bring it closer to the wider audience, however, is a noteworthy mission….