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…
Sweden Considering Sending 16-18 Gripen Fighter Jets to Ukraine
byThe Swedish government has decided to commission the Swedish Armed Forces to investigate the conditions for sending Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine. The government…
Edward Lucas: Putin’s Belligerence Is Rooted in Russia’s Imperial Past
byAfter giving a keynote speech at the “Necropolis of Communist Terror” international conference, held jointly by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and Memorial…
Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Russian speakers in the Baltics
bySince Russia invaded Ukraine, the war has unified Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian societies while Russian speakers in these countries remain divided. During the early…
Putin’s War Against Women
byMikhail Romanov is a father, husband, and a 31-year-old Russian Army soldier. This Spring he broke into a residential house near Kyiv, killed the…
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…
How The Estonian Student Resistance Built an Estonian NATO Base in 1982
byEstonia’s student resistance movement built a British NATO base in Estonia in 1982. And, of course, they wrote a song about it. This week,…
Estonian Local Election Review: Left Loses, Right Revives, and Populists Ponder
byThe October local elections marked a transformation in Estonian politics. The Center Party, which traditionally dominated the major cities’ politics, lost a significant vote…
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…
Challenges in exploring the Arctic: historical maritime exploration and current realities
byEarly 19th Century Russian Exploration In the year 1800, Europe had been drawn into the Napoleonic wars, and Russia’s Czar Paul I still had…