How Putin’s Stalinist nostalgia made him an enemy of democracy
byFor roughly as long as there have been democratic elections, there has been the threat and practice of foreign interference. Certainly, new developments have…
For roughly as long as there have been democratic elections, there has been the threat and practice of foreign interference. Certainly, new developments have…
When the Chernobyl Prayer (also known as Voices from Chernobyl) by Svetlana Alexievich was published in 1997 it didn’t draw a lot of attention….
International attention to Belarus has recently acquired a peculiar angle. The reason for concern this time, is the fate of its dictator Alexander Lukashenka,…
In August 1997, a book written by the former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky and journalist Inna Rogatchi titled “A Blind Mirror” (Sokea peili) was…
Recently Belarus started to draw attention again, sort of. This time, as a new potential victim of Russian aggression. Suddenly the international media has…
An extraordinary article was recently published in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, “”We are behind Kragh – take the Russian threat seriously”. It was…
New polls show that the share of Russians who would like to go “back to the USSR” is at its highest levels over the…
“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.” – Ronald Reagan The Helsinki summit brought Russia’s small Western neighbor…
The decision by Estonia’s prosecutor general to open a criminal investigation into an alleged €9 billion money laundering scheme through the former Estonian branch…
I and many Estonians like me await the summit between the United States and Russia in Finland on Monday with a certain sense of…