Tallinn Music Week: Looking for the bigger picture
byOut of 1000 applications from all over the world, about 250 bands were selected to come to Tallinn in order to celebrate music and…
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Kross: Silence is The Real Crime Against Humanity
by“Silence is the real crime against humanity.” This is what Nadezhda Mandelstam wrote about the silence of Russia’s intellectuals during Stalin’s years of oppression….
Estonia Leads the Way With Snap Military Exercise
byIn the stream of Russian snap drills that have come to be part of the ”new normal”, news broke last week of a more…
Nordic and Baltic Ministers to Putin: “We won’t forget Crimea”
byOn the second anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation, European foreign ministers call for sanctions to be upheld in a joint statement. By Margot Wallström,…
Welcome To Estonia’s e-Occupation Museum
byAt a museum press conference earlier this month, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, IT entrepreneur Sten Tamkivi, and museum director Merilin Piipuu announced that the…
Estonia To Build 90km Fence Along Russian Border
byEstonia’s government today approved new regulations that will allow it to build a fence along a 90km section of its land border with Russia….
The Estonian Defence Model: “Shoot to kill, on the spot!”
byKaliningrad, autumn of 2006. I had just finished up a term as a visiting professor at the old Königsberg, Immanuel Kant University. The last…
Russia’s New Dissidents in Baltic Exile Pt. 2
bySince the crisis in Ukraine, the integration of Russian-speakers, always a contentious subject, has become an even more pressing issue in Baltic discourse, and…
Russia’s New Dissidents in Baltic Exile Pt. 1
byArtemy Troitsky has, for thirty years, been the international face of Russian rock music. Yaroslavl-born and Prague-bred, the son of a true-believer Marxist academic,…