Niinistö: Finland missed opportunity to join NATO 20 years ago
byFinnish President Sauli Niinistö told the Washington Post in a weekend interview that “it would have been a very easy step” for Finland to…
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Markov: Baltic States Should Be Very Afraid Of Russia
byIn an interview with Swedish national television, SVT, Russian political scientist and “personal advisor” to Vladimir Putin, Sergey Markov, has said that while Sweden…
Russia, Ukraine and Europe have been into Vladimir Putin’s black hole of fear
byThe formula for saving any dictatorship is universal: create an enemy, start a war. We are back in Soviet times of total lies. I…
Finnish demonstrators gather to block construction of Russian-funded nuclear power plant
by“The thing that has annoyed me most in this discussion is a certain attitude, even Russophobia, that has been evident in several speeches,” Stubb…
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Report: Sweden Searching For Damaged Russian Navy Submarine in Stockholm Archipelago
bySwedish daily Svenska Dagbladet is reporting that Swedish authorities are currently searching for a damaged Russian submarine in the Stockholm archipelago. Swedish authorities launched…
A Timeline of Renewed Finlandization
byTracking Finnish foreign policy as it ricochets wildly between East and West has become a challenge for even the most seasoned observers of Finnish…
Putin: Russian troops could be in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn and Warsaw in two days
byGerman newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that if he “wanted to, Russian troops could be, not…
The Abduction of Eston Kohver: Consequences and Significance
byAt around 9:00 am on September 5th, Internal Security Service (Kaitsepolitsei) officer Eston Kohver was abducted by representatives of the Russian Federal Security Service…
Russia provoking ethnic tensions in Baltics
byRussia’s Foreign Ministry special representative for human rights, democracy and the rule-of-law, Konstantin Dolgov, has told a regional conference of the Russian Compatriots in…
