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

Should we allow the promotion of extreme neo-fascist views to hide behind artistic genius: the cases of Elly Ney and Valentina Lisitsa.

During last month’s “Putincon” pro-democracy conference in New York, several European and American politicians were represented as Vladimir Putin’s accomplises. Among them were French far-right leader ...

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 ...

Below is the text of Sofi Oksanen’s remarks at the International Conference on “The Legacy of Totalitarianism Today” in the Parliament of The Czech Republic June 12, 2014: originally published by The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scroll through images using buttons on left and right. A new museum and international center for research on the crimes of communism is moving ...