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Estonia's Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) NATO battlegroup has doubled in size and there are currently 1,700 troops stationed at Tapa military base, writes ERR News.The battlegroup has been present in Estonia since 2017 and, until the start of 2022, it consisted of approximately 1,000 troops. After tensions rose between Russia...

OTTAWA, ON (March 15, 2022): Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow Marcus Kolga has been sanctioned by the Russian government, in a clear testament to his effectiveness in advocating for sanctions against Kremlin oligarchs and human rights abusers, identifying and fact-checking Russian disinformation, and fighting against malign foreign interference from the regime....

The Estonian American National Council (EANC) has been supporting Ukraine on many levels in recent weeks. Our Washington, DC Director has participated in three national rallies organized in DC by our colleagues in the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), EANC’s partner organization in the Central and East European Coalition...

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...

On Sunday morning, February 27th, as “The Bog”/ “Soo”, a film based on the novel by Estonian author Oskar Luts, premiered on the big screen in downtown Boston, thousands of Ukrainian supporters were congregating at the nearby Boston Public Gardens to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine.After the screening of the...

The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC) vehemently condemns Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and its blatant breach of international law. It is not only an existential menace for Ukraine, but Moscow’s destabilizing belligerency endangers the region, Europe, and the global democratic order. The United States and its allies...

February 22, 2022 Russian president Putin’s order to “recognize” as independent and send “peace-keepers” into the Russian-occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine is a serious violation of international law and an escalation of Russia’s on-going war against Ukraine. Putin’s February 21st televised address, in which he lamented...

Those who have progressed through the American school system have undoubtedly learned much about the suffering of the Jewish people throughout the Holocaust. But few high school teachers (or even college professors) discuss genocidal details of Stalin’s communist regime. In her OpEd article in Harvard’s “Crimson,” entitled “100 Years. 100...

The first edition of Estonian Film magazine is out. The cover stars are Livia Ulman and Andris Feldmanis, the co-writers of “Compartment No 6” – a Finnish entry to this year’s Oscars by director Juho Kuosmanen. Livia Ulman and Andris Feldmanis were awarded with Cultural Endowment main award this year.Estonian...

While the situation in Ukraine, the security situation along NATO’s borders with Russia, and aid offered to the Ukrainian government by Estonia, the United States, and other nations continue to change on a daily basis, the Estonian American National Council is doing its best to track the major developments relevant...