The Kremlin’s Alleged Man in Tallinn
byOn Sunday, 14 December, Interfax ran a claim from Russia’s federal security service FSB that an Estonian Internal Security Service (Kaitsepolitsei) official had been…
Analysis
Separatism in Karelia More Serious than Many Think, Petrozavodsk Deputy Says
byStaunton — Karelian nationalists who call for the independence of their republic and raise “unnecessary and harmful questions about additional state languages” there are…
Putin’s Political and Ideological Struggle With The West
byRussia’s confrontation with the West seems to have entered into a new, existentialist phase: a fierce political and ideological battle that the Kremlin apparently…
Russia Waging Effective Info-War in Baltics, NATO Expert Says
byStaunton – Moscow is waging a highly effective information war in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with its “Russia Today” television broadcasts in their national…
Is Putin Prepared to Die for Narva?
byStaunton – Ever since Vladimir Putin began his aggression in Ukraine and sent signals that he was prepared to move against the Baltic countries,…
75 Years On Russia Again Engaged in a Winter War
byStaunton – Seventy-five years ago today, Moscow launched what became known as the Winter War against Finland. It used much the same propaganda and…
Ukraine Seen Forming New Military ‘Troika’ with Lithuania and Poland
byStaunton, November 26 – Having reluctantly concluded that it will not get the assistance it needs from NATO as a whole, the Ukrainian government…
‘Americans are Prepared to Die for Latvia,’ Nuland Says
byStaunton, November 22 – When the Ukrainian crisis began, some commentators in the West suggested that NATO would not in the end fight to…
Riding “Friekbikes” Towards The Apocalypse
byPlagues, nuclear armageddon, alien invasions…when or how the apocalypse arrives is anyone’s guess. But there’s a Latvian underground biking collective named in anticipation of…
A Clockwork Megahysteria
byI was interviewing Anthony Burgess when the Latvian Foreign Minister told me he was gay. At least, that’s how it felt, for in our…