International

“We’re not for Russia or Ukraine. We’re for peace.” This was Mart Helme’s message on the state broadcasting network’s online portal for Russian speakers. Helme’s own far-right EKRE party leadership were seemingly disturbed by the gaffe, and downplayed its importance. For the public, they ostensibly distanced themselves from Helme’s candour....

JBANC Managing Director Karl Altau was among the speakers at a benefit for a wounded Ukrainian marine at the childhood home of Grace Kelly in Philadelphia on October 29, 2022. Roman Horodensky, a 20-year-old Ukrainian Marine from Odesa, is currently undergoing prosthetic rehabilitation in Philadelphia. He went to defend Ukraine...

The next in-person “Washington Ukraine Days” advocacy event will be held in Washington, DC November 15-17, 2002. The advocacy event is sponsored and organized by the Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS), the Washington, DC public affairs bureau of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA). If you are interested in...

I was in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1954 on the charter schooner "Caribee", when Queen Elizabeth, on the Royal Yacht Brittania, was visiting the British Empire, which was vast. We were told in social studies that "The sun never sets on the British Empire", as Britain had holdings in every arc...

When last checked in July on these pages (“The Summer of NDAA”), the United States House of Representatives was primed to vote on the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). That vote occurred on July 14, passing on a bipartisan 329-101 vote, and authorizing nearly $840 billion in...

Estonia in 1940 and Ukrai-ne in 2014 and 2022 – the similarities are remarkably striking. In June 1940, the Soviet Union invaded and occupied the independent countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as foreseen by the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Communist Russia and Nazi Germany. Blatantly rigged “parliamentary elections” were...

In the September 8 issue, VES #34, Mrs Kristi Allpere wrote of her escape from Estonia to Sweden, and from there, after a residency of five years, emigrated to Canada on the MV PÄRNU. Our journey to the USA was similar, but also different. Similarly, we, my brother and I,...

Estonians across the world are not a community separate from Estonian society; instead, they have a strong emotional and cultural bond with Estonia, a study commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and carried out by the Institute of Baltic Studies shows. The majority of the expat Estonian community have...

At an extraordinary NATO meeting on September 9, Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed Allies about upcoming U.S. support worth $2.2 billion in long-term investments to our Allies and partners, including Estonia. These long-term investments bolster the security of Ukraine and 17 of its neighbors potentially at risk of future...

Targeting Russians at home and abroad since it started planning the invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s propagandists have been in overdrive. They have stuck to a consistent litany of lies. In justifying the war, Moscow insists that the Ukrainian leadership are irredeemable Na-zis; NATO is plotting to take over Ukraine...