Russia puts Estonia Prime Minister on wanted list for destroying Soviet monuments
Moscow, Russia/Vilnius, Estonia Reuters Russian police have put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Lithuania’s culture minister, and members of the previous Latvian parliament on a wanted list for destroying Soviet-era monuments, according to the Russian interior ministry’s database. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kallas was wanted for the “desecration of historical memory”. Estonia’s Prime Minister […]
Finland should stay calm amid Trump NATO rhetoric, President-elect says
Helsinki, Finland Reuters Finland’s President-elect Alexander Stubb said on Monday his country should remain calm and focus on its NATO membership despite former US President Donald Trump’s recent critical comments on the military alliance. Trump, the front-runner to become the Republican candidate in November’s US presidential election, said last week he would not want to […]
Essay: Ukraine war prompts Baltic states to remove Soviet memorials
Russian and East European studies scholar DMITRIJS ANDREJEVS looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at why Baltic states are removing Soviet memorials…