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.

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

Vladimir Putin has tapped deep into a line of dependable Soviet era nomenklatura, reaching back to the time of Stalin, to appoint his latest chief of staff, Anton Vaino. Vaino’s grandfather, Karl ...

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 ...

The Canadian government has announced the final selection for a national memorial to the victims of communism in Ottawa. When built, the monument will be among the largest of its kind in the world and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...