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

Photographer Sébastien Tixier grew up hearing tales of the Inuits in the polar regions from his father. Three years ago, and inspired by those stories, the Frenchman travelled to Greenland to see for ...

After years spent struggling to escape the stigma attached to being a former hostage of the Soviet State, Estonia has rightfully earned its status as a global leader in digital governance and ...

Staunton — Karelian nationalists who call for the independence of their republic and raise “unnecessary and harmful questions about additional state languages” there are being “seriously ...

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

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 ...

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 Northern European / UpNorth, brings together Nordic and Baltic Sea region views, issues and features the best ideas and culture that the region has to offer. The Northern European / UpNorth, ...

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, ...

Few countries project a gentler international image than Norway, with its fjord tourism, free-range parenting and electric-vehicle leadership. Behind its pastoral reputation, however, Oslo has spent ...