Daugavpils: A Complicated Latvian Future Haunted By The Soviet Past
byI’m aboard the Riga-Daugavpils train, and we’re rattling along in an unhurried way from Latvia’s capital to its second-largest city; a distance of roughly…
Culture
Twisted Muses: Hitler’s and Putin’s Pianists
byFifty years ago, a white haired woman stood on a stage in Bad Godesberg, a small town south of Germany’s Cold War capital, Bonn….
Sofi Oksanen in Toronto: How History Is Falsified – Deportations in the Politics of Russia and the Soviet Union
bySofi Oksanen’s speech at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights: Commemorating the 1949 Baltic Deportations. From an early age I wanted to…
Sofi Oksanen & Bill Browder in Toronto: The UpNorth March 27 LiveStream
byWatch the UpNorth livestream of the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights with Bill Browder and Sofi Oksanen. This live stream was developed…
Ground Broken for New Pagan Chapel in Iceland
byImmediately following Monday’s solar eclipse, Iceland’s Nordic Pagan religion broke ground on its new chapel and headquarters in Reykjavík. Ásatrú, which is registered as…
Estonian World War II refugee story
byTITLE: Refugee: Refugee Life in Pictures AUTHOR: Endel Kõks, Arnold Sepp / Ilvi Jõe-Cannon, editor PUBLISHER: Eesti Diasporaa Akadeemia (Estonian Diaspora Academy) Already last…
A Premonition
byAt first you don’t notice it, but then, really, even to the contrary. The central figure on the painting reminds you of Putin. It…
Russian Leaders Doing Interesting Things
byFrom Vladimir Putin’s participation in a NASHI Youth pan crushing competition to Leonid Brezhnev’s naked late night phone calls to Finnish President, Urho Kekkonen:…
KIWA: ESTONIAN HIPPIES WITHOUT ACID IN NYC
byEstonian multidisciplinary artist KIWA gives a rare New York performance and lecture, “HIPPIES WITHOUT ACID – in memory of A. Hoffmann”, on Tuesday, March…
Canadian Trans-Atlantic Sauna Dub Comes Home To Tallinn
byInspired by the tranquility of remote lakeside saunas, the ambiance of a northern Ontario forest in summertime and distant Estonian-Nordic culture, Heiki Sillaste has…