Taxes drive Ryanair from Denmark
byRoutes cut following double whammy from the taxman Ryanair has slashed its routes to Denmark for the upcoming winter season. The Irish-based low-cost airline…
Midnight In The New Century: 76 Years After The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
byToday marks the seventy-sixth anniversary of the Hitler-Stalin pact that triggered the Second World War and thrust Europe into an orgy of unspeakable violence,…
Obama To Meet With Estonian President Ilves and Baltic Leaders in September
byUnited States President Barack Obama will visit Estonia in early September to “further enhance the strong relations between the two countries, and to affirm…
A Russian Range War (And an American Caught in the Middle)
byIn Russia, the only order is in nature. Ten men surround a mountain of gear and stare skyward as an Mi-8 circles and turns…
Russian Armed Forces in the Baltic Sea Region
byIn the past five years, Russian units have grown in quality as well as quantity. Although Russia has always tried to maintain a considerable…
69° North, 33° East: Running from the Russians
byA Soviet-made helicopter is a grinding, oily beast which announces itself long before visual contact. The Mi-8s, the cargo and passenger transport machines, can…
Förbränning for All!
byThe sensible Swedes burn a lot of their garbage. Why can’t we? By Daniel Gross from Slate.com Sweden, from which I’ve recently returned, is…
Sofi Oksanen: Knowledge is a cheap and universal weapon
byBelow is the text of Sofi Oksanen’s remarks at the International Conference on “The Legacy of Totalitarianism Today” in the Parliament of The Czech…
President Ilves: Music Saved My Life
byEstonian President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, tells Radio Helsinki about the transformative power of rock music and how it helped inspire change behind the Iron…
A Defence Force for the 21st Century: Finland Needs New and Robust Capabilities
byThere is a requirement for more robust capabilities in the period preceding large-scale conventional war, as well as for the development of a military…