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With China’s Quest for Foreign Technology, Beyond Espionage, a group of sixteen experts on China deliver a comprehensive study of the security challenges ahead,…
Juuso Salokorpi (editor): The Arithmetic of the Greatness of Ilmari Susiluoto Helsinki. 2020. 413 pages. The twists and turns in the career of Russian…
Was it not already divine grace that we were permitted to remain on this patch of our native land, which we never wished to…
Bestselling Finnish-Estonian author, Sofi Oksanen, will give a lecture on the politicization and falsification of history in Toronto on Saturday September 30, 2017 at…
As news of travel bans dominate our media and new walls are being built, it’s good to recall the travel bans in Eastern Europe…
Imbi Paju is an Estonian author, historian and filmmaker whose work examines the traumas of totalitarianism. Her book and film “Sisters Across The Gulf…
Finnish author, Sofi Oksanen, looks at the refugee crisis through the historical lens of the Finnish and Estonian experiences. The only person from my…
In 2003 I published my first novel in Finland, Stalin’s Cows, which dealt with the recent history of Estonia. I was confronted by journalists…
National newspapers in the UK and Canada have selected Sofi Oksanen’s When The Doves Disappeared among the top books of 2015. When The Doves…
Tributes poured in on Monday following the death of one of Sweden’s best-loved authors, Henning Mankell. Krister Henriksson, the actor who played Mankell’s famous…