Ukraine’s Victory Against Russia Will Save Us From WWIII
byBoth outgoing President Biden and the newly inaugurated President Trump have been consistent in their statements: the USA does not want World War III….
Estonia
Russia’s War against Ukraine and Its Hybrid War Against Estonia
byBefore 24 February 2022, it was a common view amongst Russia experts in the West that Putin’s autocratic regime was some kind of curiously…
Edward Lucas: Putin’s Belligerence Is Rooted in Russia’s Imperial Past
byAfter giving a keynote speech at the “Necropolis of Communist Terror” international conference, held jointly by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and Memorial…
Manipulated Minds
byWhen Swedish television broadcast a film based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the seventies, Finland shut…
How The Estonian Student Resistance Built an Estonian NATO Base in 1982
byEstonia’s student resistance movement built a British NATO base in Estonia in 1982. And, of course, they wrote a song about it. This week,…
Estonian Local Election Review: Left Loses, Right Revives, and Populists Ponder
byThe October local elections marked a transformation in Estonian politics. The Center Party, which traditionally dominated the major cities’ politics, lost a significant vote…
Aspiring Estonian Presidential Candidate Suggests “Finlandization” for Estonia
byA self-declared candidate for the upcoming Estonian Presidential election, Tarmo Soomere, has suggested that Estonia’s security chief should call his Russian colleague on an…
Challenges in exploring the Arctic: historical maritime exploration and current realities
byEarly 19th Century Russian Exploration In the year 1800, Europe had been drawn into the Napoleonic wars, and Russia’s Czar Paul I still had…
Tallinn Calling: Jazz, Punk, Rock & Roll and Youth Culture in the Soviet Union
byA lecture by Marcus Kolga for the Estonian Diaspora Museum VEMU on Jazz, Punk, Rock & Roll and Youth Culture in the Soviet Union.
Estonian-US Relations After Joe Biden’s Victory
byThe most important strategic goal of Estonian foreign and security policy is to maintain and strengthen the allied space of democratic countries, at the…