Op-Ed

The uncouth treatment that New York tennis fans gave Anett Kontaveit at the Arthur Ashe stadium on August 31 is not only unforgivable but nothing less than arrogant. I watched the entire match on Eurosport live and was shocked that a crowd of 30+ thousand was able to stay as...

Pastor Markus Vaga Luke 10:25-37 Sometimes it feels that whenever Jesus needs to make a point, He talks about Samaritans. A good Samaritan is someone who helps a stranger. In fact, here in New Jersey and many other states, there are laws that we call “Good Samaritan Laws” which generally...

It’s no longer news, but it still deserves attention. By mid-April, Estonia had donated proportionally more military aid to Ukraine than any other nation – including the USA and the U.K. Yet, the war is far from being wrapped up. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Estonia...

Indrek Lepson On our way to New Zealand, we stopped at Esperito Santo Island in New Hebrides to clear customs. New Hebrides at that time was under French and English jurisdiction.How that came to be, I have no idea. Both countries had consulates there, so Barbara had to go to...

Karl Altau, JBANC Vladimir Kara-Murza is not your average Russian citizen. You may have recently read that he was detained on April 11, 2022, in Moscow. Russian authorities declared him a “foreign agent” and ordered his arrest for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian military in its war against...

Sergei Metlev, Member of the Board of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory It is becoming increasingly apparent that some Russian-speaking Estonians are offended and complaining. In general terms, it sounds like this: Ukrainian war refugees are given immediate and plentiful aid, but we who have lived here for a...

Maarika Sterling Author with her grandmother, Ingrid (Sibul) Polikarpus, 1982.Photo: Carolyn Polikarpus This is me with my grandmother. Watching the news the last few days, the refugees streaming out of Ukraine, mothers with their children – I keep thinking about my grandmother.My uncle was the only one of her five...

The kind of war with Ukraine promised to us by the U.S. was never Russia's plan, foreign policy expert Kadri Liik said on ERR's program "Otse Uudistemajast" (Straight From the Newsroom) on February 16. Kadri Liik. Source: ERR According to Liik, an offensive with a high number of casualties and...

Indrek Lepson When I was in Hawaii in September 1977, I met D'arcy Whiting, a sail maker from New Zealand, at the Waikiki Yacht Club. We got on well, shared many beers and stories, and he said that if I ever got to New Zealand, to look him up. That...

Jaak Rakfeldt, Ph.D. Enel ran down the stairs to the basement, where Kristi and I were sleeping on mattresses on the floor. She was out of breath, panting, but finally was able to stammer out that there was a coup d’état happening in Moscow. She turned on the television and...