Politics & Society

Karl Altau / JBANC Following the midterm elections and the Thanksgiving break, the United States Congress is back in action, finishing up business for the year, and this 117th Session of Congress. The new 118th Congress starts its two-year cycle on January 3. This is the third article in a...

“We can support each other”. Thanks to the EERO Children’s Fund, Estonian women who need help receive our support after leaving women’s shelters. This assistance has enabled them to buy their children medicine, healthy food, prescription glasses, clothes and shoes. Zoom interviews were conducted with 4 women, who have received...

Russia is recruiting soldiers abroad online, with promotion in English and in a breezy, casual manner, explaining how to join a welcoming, trustworthy organization.The website’s promo adopts a Madison Avenue sales pitch: “So, if you’re itching to start running with a brand new AK-12 in notorious Ratnik-2 battle gear, here...

Just over 20 properties which include residential buildings remain in the "area of interest" of a planned expansion to an existing military training area in South Estonia. Local residents have largely been in the dark about what will happen to their properties, many of which have been in the family...

Karl Altau / JBANC The 2022 midterm elections in the United States are in the books. But the counting will continue into December. The election headlines are that the Senate will remain in the hands of Democrats, and Republicans held on to flip the House . Despite the victory, House...

“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...

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...