Sofi Oksanen writes that Estonia and The Baltics must ensure that, unlike Finland, they no longer allow history to be manipulated by Soviet distortions.

Vladimir Putin's life of extravagant luxury and wealth exposed by Boris Nemtsov and Leonid Martynyuk in the first English translation of their 2012 report.

I’m aboard the Riga-Daugavpils train, and we’re rattling along in an unhurried way from Latvia’s capital to its second-largest city; a distance of roughly 140 miles that takes us around four hours.

Video and text of Sofi Oksanen's speech at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights: Commemorating the 1949 Baltic Deportations.

It’s often difficult for the citizens of any nation to completely comprehend how their country is viewed and perceived by the international community, including its history. Estonians are clearly ...

A roundup of some of the positions of US Presidential candidates on United States foreign policy in Russia, Ukraine and The Baltic region.

Little known to those outside of Finland, Finnish Karelia is a land of lakes and deep forests and the home of a culture that founded elements of today’s Finnish identity and politics. It is also a ...

The similarities between Hitler’s Germany and Putin’s Russia are striking – and thoroughly disturbing. Will an increasingly stressed Putin push his country towards war, ...

Should we allow the promotion of extreme neo-fascist views to hide behind artistic genius: the cases of Elly Ney and Valentina Lisitsa.

A self-declared candidate for the upcoming Estonian Presidential election, Tarmo Soomere, has suggested that Estonia’s security chief should call his Russian colleague on an annual basis. Soomere is a ...

Contrary to the widespread notions that are currently dominating discussions and headlines in Estonia: nobody actually wants to come to Estonia. Estonia is not threatened by the “Islamist masses.” A ...

Keynote remarks given by Ambassador Dan Fried at the May 2017 JBANC conference in Washington DC. I first met with JBANC in 1993, introduced by Nick Burns, my colleague at the Clinton NSC. Nick ...