Few countries project a gentler international image than Norway, with its fjord tourism, free-range parenting and ...

Dr. Alpo Rusi is a visiting professor of internationals relations and diplomacy at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. He is former foreign policy advisor of Finland’s president (1994-99) and ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

The most important strategic goal of Estonian foreign and security policy is to maintain and strengthen the allied space of democratic countries, at the heart of which lies the United States of ...

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 ...