Articles on Baltic states
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Baltic countries offer Canada a clear blueprint for countering Russian coercion, preparing for crisis and building resilience without surrendering democratic values.
The Estonian composer has written some of the world’s most performed contemporary classical music. Many fans may not realize how deep the religious influences on his work are.
Soviet-era monuments have been disappearing from the Baltic states since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The Nato summit showed up an increasing divide between Europe and the US, and their military priorities.
The future of Nato is in the balance ahead of a big meeting this month.
Anchor-dragging incidents in the Baltic Sea are leading to an increased naval presence.
Insights from working on an Estonian cultural festival.
A selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine from the past fortnight.
A rogue document apparently showing Russian intention to expand its territory in the Baltic region surfaced in the past few days.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Baltic states have high numbers of Russian speakers, who Putin has vowed to ‘protect’.
This year, 32 years after Latvia’s independence, the festival boasted over 40,000 participants including almost 3,000 from Latvia’s diaspora.
DNA analysis reveals a large migration of people into Scandinavia during Viking times.
History is not being destroyed but the way people remember is being changed.
In much of eastern Europe historical memory of communist rule has been brought into sharp focus by the war in Ukraine.
A small piece of Russian territory on the Baltic coast has become the focus of heightened tensions on Nato’s fringe.
The war in Ukraine is a seismic event. A weakened Russia will try to take advantage of a poorer, more divided and less secure post-Soviet region.
The Russian government used disinformation to fabricate a justification for invading Ukraine. A new campaign focused on biowarfare claims threatens to escalate the conflict.
A scholar of Russian history breaks down what Putin’s aim might be in threatening military invasion, and why that might backfire.

















