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…
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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…
Maidan pa-Belarusku: Minsk’s next steps
byTurmoil marred the oft-ignored Belarusian presidential elections as Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the wife of an arrested presidential candidate, challenges incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka. As popular protests…
The Giedroyc Doctrine and National Reconciliation
byIn June 2020, on the 79th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s invasion by Nazi German invasion, Russian state media published a flurry of programming…
Putin’s Plan Is A Threat To The Baltic States
byRussian President, Vladimir Putin has torn away any remaining secrecy about his old plans to reconfigure zones of geopolitical influence in such a way…
Terror, Pain and Impunity: The Legacy of Nazi and Soviet Occupation of The Baltic States
byAn interview with The Jews in Latvia Museum Director, Ilja Lenskis Eighty years ago this month, as the world’s attention was focused on Nazi…
Russia eyes raising thousands of radioactive relics from watery Arctic graves
byIt should have been an easy job. Instead, towing a rust-bucket nuclear submarine known as the k-159 to scrapping ended in a headache Russia…
Interactive GULAG Timeline
by Design and Audio: Marcus Kolga for Liefa Communications.
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…
Chinese ambassador issues “unacceptable threat” against Sweden
byIn an interview with Sweden’s SVT, China’s ambassador to Sweden, mocked Swedish criticism of China’s lack of human rights and freedom, comparing Sweden to…