Sweden Votes for Closer Ties To NATO
bySwedish parliamentarians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of closer ties with NATO today. Swedish Radio reports that guards were called in to deal with…
Austria Elects Estonia’s Candidate for President
byAlexander Van der Bellen, the Austrian presidential candidate whose parents fled Soviet occupying forces in Estonia in 1940, narrowly beat out his far-right opponent, Norbert Hofer by…
NATO’s Eastern Exposure
byEvery year, Estonia holds special military exercises called Spring Storm. The exercises are for those conscript soldiers who have just completed their term of service….
Closing The Baltic Gap
byAs NATO’s Warsaw summit in July looms, closing the “Baltic gap” will be its most pressing task. A new report by the Tallinn-based International…
Trains, Bailouts, Russia and Canada’s “Responsible Conviction”
byCanada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stephane Dion, this week, rejected an all-party Canadian effort to adopt legislation to target Russian human rights violators with…
Lennart Meri Conference set to discuss future of Europe and NATO ahead of the Warsaw summit
byEntitled “Shaping the New Normal” the 10th Lennart Meri Conference will focus on the future of Europe and the West from 13th to 15th…
Victory Cult Intended to Keep Russian Federation’s Non-Russians within an Empire and Former Soviet Republics Together: Ukrainian Commentator
byMany Russian commentators have pointed out that the way in which Vladimir Putin is exploiting Victory Day is about the legitimation of the Soviet…
Moscow May Soon Blame Extraterrestrials for Boeing Catastrophe, Russian Aviation Expert Says
byIt would be entirely consistent with the Russian approach since the shooting down of the Boeing airliner over the Donbas for Moscow soon to…
Historical Baltic Resort Fashion from Pärnu
byA new exhibition of Baltic Sea region resort fashion has opened at the Pärnu Museum and runs until August 30. Resort fashion started to develop…
Nuclear submarine fire in Russia Far East again raises questions surrounding safe dismantlement
byA decommissioned Russian nuclear submarine moored off a naval base on the Kamchatka peninsula caught fire on Friday, but there was no radioactive contamination…