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…
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.
Russia releases massive official plans for the Northern Sea Route
byThe Russian government has published a massive new plan outlining its intentions for the Northern Sea Route, the icy shipping artery joining Europe and…
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…
Russia continues to test western resolve – Spetsnaz units operating in Norwegian territory
byOn 27 September 2019, the well-informed Norwegian security and defence portal Aldrimer.no reported that Russian Spetsnaz units were recently found operating inside Norwegian territory….
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…