Estonia

Three decades ago, dulcet tones from Estonia signalled the country's newfound freedom, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

The same factors that led up to his incursion into Ukraine are in place again, including domestic protests, a struggling economy and a desire for glory. So are the likes of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania next on the Russian leader’s list? A trained KGB agent, Vladimir Putin knows how to hide his feelings, but in […]

Despite attempts to bridge it since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the chasm between Eastern and Western Europe remains wide. The pandemic has pushed the two regions even further apart. No-one better embodies the liberation of Central and Eastern Europe from Communism than Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright, dissident and first democratically-elected president of the modern era. […]

A Eurosceptic MEP has nominated former US president Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. Estonian politician Jaak Madison, deputy chairman of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE),  said he was doing so for failing to start a war in his presidency. He also claimed that Trump had secured stability in the Middle East. Maidson […]