Kremlin Information Warfare Lands in a Canadian Municipal Park
byOn May 11, 2025, a City of Toronto municipal park and community centre once again served as the venue for a Russian Victory Day…
Disinformation
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…
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…
How The Kremlin Silences Critics: The Swedish Case
byAn extraordinary article was recently published in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, “”We are behind Kragh – take the Russian threat seriously”. It was…
Finnish Prosecutor: Pro-Kremlin Trolls Destroyed Journalist’s Life
byA critically important court case about the limitations on free speech in Finland is unfolding in a Helsinki court this week. Jessikka Aro, a…
Johan Bäckman Accused of Harassing and Defaming YLE Journalist
byFinnish newspaper, Aamulehti reports that a well known Finnish pro-Kremlin advocate, Johan Bäckman, is accused of having committed crimes against a journalist at Finland’s…
Confronting disinfo on TV in Tallinn
bySince 2011, Tallinn’s municipal government, which is governed by the Estonian Center Party (ECP), has been paying about €550,000 a year to First Baltic…
Estonia’s Kremlin Friendly Voices in Russian State Media
byAn Estonian website has published a list of Estonians who frequently comment on EU-Russian and Estonian affairs in Russian state media. The website, propatstop.ee,…
Kremlin Identifies Former Estonian KGB Henchman, Charged With Genocide As “Soviet Hero”
byThe Russian Ministry of Foreign affairs tweeted an infographic Wednesday, identifying a former Estonian KGB henchman, Arnold Meri, as a hero of the “Soviet…
Debunked: The myth of the Golden Age of the Baltics in the Soviet Union
byDuring the occupation of the Baltic Countries by the Soviet Union, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were told that investments in people, social needs and…