Debunked: The myth of the Golden Age of the Baltics in the Soviet Union
byDuring the occupation of the Baltic Countries by the Soviet Union, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were told that investments in people, social needs and…
Analysis
Vladimir Putin’s Selective Use of History
byUsing history is merely a tactic for the Kremlin. The West often regards Russian President Vladimir Putin as a history-conscious leader. The reasoning for…
Moscow Outlet Describes How Russia Should Break Up Each of the Baltic Countries
byArguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the Russian propaganda site, SputnikPogrom, outlines how…
Four Thousand Ethnic Russians in Estonia Now Consider Estonian Their Native Language
byFour thousand ethnic Russians and more than 2,000 ethnic Finns who live in Estonia tell officials that they consider Estonian to be their native…
Sannikov: West Must Support Belarusian Democratic Opposition
byExiled Belarusian pro-democracy opposition leader, Andrei Sannikov, was a leading contender in the 2010 Belarusian Presidential elections. He was beaten and arrested after participating…
Battle of Narratives: Russia’s War on History
byWe need to reset relations with Russia on the Kremlin’s terms. That, stripped of its decorative elements, is the argument made by my old…
Sofi Oksanen: Your Silence Will Not Protect You
byDuring my years at school, maps hung on our classroom walls on which the Finnish borders were clear, as were those of the Soviet…
Estonia, Russia and The War on Truth
byPropaganda is now the central front of the New Cold War. But Estonians were on to the role of the Kremlin’s media machine much…
Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Russia
byGiven the rise in xenophobia in Russian society following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his increasingly repressive authoritarianism at home, many have pointed…
Fake news, free speech and lies
byThere has been so much talk about “fake news” and information warfare lately that both terms are becoming over inflated, used so liberally that…