The three-party ruling coalition in Estonia has collapsed, Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced at a press conference in Tallinn on Monday. Michal, head of the pro-free market Reform Party, said he was expelling the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDE) from his coalition on grounds of differences of opinion.
Russia is showing no intention of stopping its attacks. Instead, it is intensifying shelling in an attempt to strengthen its positions in Ukraine ahead of possible negotiations, stated Lieutenant Colonel Matthias Puusepp,
In Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the ongoing war in Ukraine is considered the first line of defense. Providing aid to Ukraine is therefore existential because if Ukraine loses the war, Russia's troops would be back on the borders of the Baltic
As Europe plans to up its defense spending, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian services believe that Moscow could be planning to launch a 'possible military confrontation with NATO.'
Kristen Michal tells POLITICO that no country should shirk its obligations as U.S. casts doubt on NATO security.
By advertising Estonia as an alternative location to practice Russian, the University fails to treat Estonia as it is: a sovereign nation with its own cultural identity and historical trauma related to Russian domination.
With every day of the new White House administration that passes, the chances of Russia being brought in from the cold on the international stage after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine appear to be increasing.
We strongly disagree with Veronika Kitsul’s recent Opinion piece, in which she argues that the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures must end its Russian language program in Estonia and refrain from sponsoring programs in any post-Soviet states.
Margus Tsahkna is the Foreign Minister of Estonia- a country, that like Georgia has faced similar challenges and went through the Soviet oppression. Estonia has been a staunch supporter of Georgia’s democratic development,
"Are the Europeans willing to stand up for themselves, for their principles, for their values, and for fellow Europeans? And I fear the answer is no."
The former artistic director of the Russian Theater of Estonia Philip Los, fired for a post about "rotten Russophobia", left the neo-Nazi Baltic States, moving to Israel.
European leaders are weary of Donald Trump’s push to secure a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, with the EU’s top diplomat saying that Vladimir Putin “doesn’t really want