The Trump administration’s ongoing flirtation with the world’s authoritarians has now solidified into what can fairly be ...

As for my personal perception, I’m not ashamed to say to the citizens who voted for me, that throughout these eight years, I have worked like a galley slave. I am pleased with the results of my work ...

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, as Hitler did? Or will his ...

During my years at school, maps hung on our classroom walls on which the Finnish borders were clear, as were those of the Soviet Union; Estonia however, did not appear on the map. A country that is ...

Will Mawhood follows up his visit to Latvia’s most Russian city, Daugavpils, with a visit to one of its most Latvian, Kuldiga, for UpNorth Stand in Kuldīga’s main square on a sunny day and you could ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The October local elections marked a transformation in Estonian politics. The Center Party, which traditionally dominated the major cities’ politics, lost a significant vote share. Smaller parties on ...

Both outgoing President Biden and the newly inaugurated President Trump have been consistent in their statements: the USA does not want World War III. This is a noble goal and one that suits Estonians ...

Sofi Oksanen speaking at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights. March 27, 2015 Photo: UpNorth Sofi Oksanen’s speech at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights: ...