Podcast with Vladimir Ashurkov of The Anti-Corruption Foundation
byThe world has followed closely the attempted assassination via poisoning, recent arrest, and now conviction of Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny. With thousands of…
Tallinn Calling: Jazz, Punk, Rock & Roll and Youth Culture in the Soviet Union
byA lecture by Marcus Kolga for the Estonian Diaspora Museum VEMU on Jazz, Punk, Rock & Roll and Youth Culture in the Soviet Union.
Transfer of technology with China: International security experts are sounding the alarm
byWith China’s Quest for Foreign Technology, Beyond Espionage, a group of sixteen experts on China deliver a comprehensive study of the security challenges ahead,…
Estonian-US Relations After Joe Biden’s Victory
byThe most important strategic goal of Estonian foreign and security policy is to maintain and strengthen the allied space of democratic countries, at the…
The Tale of Two Estonias
byAfter years spent struggling to escape the stigma attached to being a former hostage of the Soviet State, Estonia has rightfully earned its status…
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…
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…
Maidan pa-Belarusku: Minsk’s next steps
byTurmoil marred the oft-ignored Belarusian presidential elections as Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the wife of an arrested presidential candidate, challenges incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka. As popular protests…
The Giedroyc Doctrine and National Reconciliation
byIn June 2020, on the 79th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s invasion by Nazi German invasion, Russian state media published a flurry of programming…
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…