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 ...

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.

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: ...

When people in Moscow or the West talk about “nationality problems” in Russia, they typically focus on ethnic groups which, because of their large size, activism or political utility, have the status ...

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, ...

Fifty years ago, a white haired woman stood on a stage in Bad Godesberg, a small town south of Germany’s Cold War capital, Bonn. She stood for twenty minutes as the crowd stomped and applauded her ...

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 ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the war has unified Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian societies while Russian speakers in these countries remain divided. During the early months of the war, a survey ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prirazlomnoye rig in the Pechora Sea, operated by Gazprom Neft. Prirazlomnoye field is located in Russia. Prirazlomnoye field. Photo: WIkimedia Western governments imposed sanctions on Russia for ...

Professor and former Finnish ambassador, Alpo Rusi and the former party secretary of The Finnish Centre Party, author Jarmo Korhonen have published a new book titled “The Kremlin’s Footsteps – ...