Kremlin Information Warfare Lands in a Canadian Municipal Park
byOn May 11, 2025, a City of Toronto municipal park and community centre once again served as the venue for a Russian Victory Day…
Finland
Finland’s Karelia: Living Geopolitics on an Edge
byLittle known to those outside of Finland, Finnish Karelia is a land of lakes and deep forests and the home of a culture that…
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…
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…
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…
Jukka Mallinen: A Finnish Dissident
byJuuso Salokorpi (editor): The Arithmetic of the Greatness of Ilmari Susiluoto Helsinki. 2020. 413 pages. The twists and turns in the career of Russian…
Indifference is a green light for hatred and violence
byAddress by Sofi Oksanen at the 2020 Helsinki Ethics Conference On a recent visit to Norway, I visited the Narvik War Museum. At the…
Finns Party MP With China Business Links Remains Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee
byThe Chairman of the Finnish Foreign Affairs Committee, Finns Party MP Mika Niikko will remain as chair after the committee reconvened after a…
Evgeniya Chirikova: The real cost of Russian gas
byFew in the West think about the ethics of buying hydrocarbons from Putin’s Russia and the real price of such a deal. Let’s look…
How Putin’s Stalinist nostalgia made him an enemy of democracy
byFor roughly as long as there have been democratic elections, there has been the threat and practice of foreign interference. Certainly, new developments have…