Edward Lucas: Ilves Put Estonia On The Map
byPresident Ilves Toomas Hendrik Ilves has put Estonia on the map. For a country the size of Estonia, with a population of just over…
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Svetova: Nekrasov Anti-Magnitsky Film Propaganada, not Art
by“I am not Mr. Browder’s attorney. I am defending the memory of Sergei Magnitsky. Therefore, I consider the film by Andrey Nekrasov to be…
Russian Propaganda Film Triggers MEP Call for Sanctions
byA group of European Members of Parliament, including Estonian MEP, Tunne Kelam, Lithuanian MEP, Petras Auštrevičius, and former Belgian Prime Minister, Guy Verhovstadt, have renewed…
The King of Sweden: should he stay or should he go?
byAs Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf turns 70, a royalist and a republican argue head-to-head in a Radio Sweden debate about the future of…
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,…
Paul Keres: A Man Whose Life Reflected His Homeland
byPaul Keres was born in Narva—then of the Russian Empire, now of Estonia—on January 7, 1916, and so his birth and his life would…
Yes, in Finland you can have sex with your pet
byYLE reports that Finland stands alongside Romania and Hungary as one of the last three EU countries in which sexual intercourse with an animal…
The Swedish spy who sold out his country
byHe worked most of his career as an officer with the Secret Service, but many Swedes remember him today as the man who sold military…
Karelia Needs to Restore 1918 Otava Flag: Stepa
byThe flag a nation chooses for itself is important as an indication of how it sees itself and its place in the world. Twenty-five…