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

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 ...

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

An extraordinary article was recently published in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, “”We are behind Kragh – take the Russian threat seriously”. It was signed by nine prominent academics in the ...

Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland J. B. Hannibalsson looks back at his role in helping the Baltics achieve independence.

When Swedish television broadcast a film based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the seventies, Finland shut down the channels that broadcast the film from ...

After giving a keynote speech at the “Necropolis of Communist Terror” international conference, held jointly by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and Memorial in Tallinn, British journalist ...

The Swedish government has decided to commission the Swedish Armed Forces to investigate the conditions for sending Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine. The government is particularly interested in ...