Halonen: Estonia Still Experiencing Post-Soviet Trauma
byFormer Finnish President, Tarja Halonen, has repeated her diagnosis of Estonia’s approach towards Russia as being a symptom of Estonia’s post-Soviet, Post Traumatic Stress…
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Baltic Military Commanders Request Permanent NATO Brigade
byBaltic military leaders have prepared a joint letter to NATO Commander in Europe, US General Philip Breedlove, requesting that a permanent NATO brigade be…
President Ilves: On May 8th There Are No Victors, No Losers, Only Survivors
byRemarks by President Ilves at the Commemoration of the end of the Second World War at Westerplatte, May 8, 2015 Thank you President Komorowski…
KIWA and Soviet Hippies in New York City
byOn a cold March afternoon in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Vinegar Hill, Estonian artist KIWA smoked one last cigarette before entering The Department of…
New Charges Against Kidnapped Estonian Police Officer
byRussian authorities have added new charges of arms smuggling and unlawful crossing of the Russian border to the case of an Estonian police officer, Eston…
Estonian President Ilves at 2015 JBANC conference & Archived Panel Discussions
byArchived live feed video from the April 18, 2015 JBANC Conference. Estonian President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivers a speech about the contributions of the…
Estonian Coalition Agreement Signed
byEstonia’s Reform Party, Social Democrats and IRL have signed an agreement to form a coalition government. After weeks of talks, the three major parties have agreed…
Finnish Newspaper Promotes Anti-Estonian Stereotyping
byFinland’s leading daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, published an online poll last week, asking readers to suggest and vote on derogatory nicknames for Estonians. Estonian…
Toronto Conference on Human Rights: Panel Discussion
byMarch 27, 2015. Toronto. Chairman of the the Platform on European Memory and Conscience, Göran Lindblad moderates a discussion on Soviet repressions and their…
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…