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In May, Ukraine, which has not experienced any internal military conflict for the last 60 years, is close to slip into a full-fledged war. The government launched a large-scale military operation against rebels that...
June 21, 2014 11:34 am / no comments
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To realize where it is better – in Russian or European Union – easiest is to visit any “brotherly nation” like Kyrgyzstan, where you can still see Lenin’s big statue and hear to...
June 11, 2014 9:00 am / 379 comments
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Minister Paet – dear Urmas,
Miss Lind,
Miss Mulenok,
Dear Friends,
First of all thank you Urmas for the kind welcome. It’s great to be back in Estonia....
May 14, 2014 12:36 pm / no comments
On May 1st, 2004, right before the centennial of the first Young Estonia almanac, Estonia became a fully-fledged member of the European Union. Gustav Suits, a poet, had once famously called upon the readers of the almanac by saying, “Let us...
April 2, 2014 1:14 pm / 8 comments
From among the EU member-states, the Hungarian government used the most lenient approach to the Russian operations in Ukraine. The opposition parties’ immediate reactions to these events made the government party express its opinion too. We...
March 26, 2014 1:55 pm / 1 comment
Today, on the 18th of July, Alexei Navalny – a lawyer, dissentient, entrepreneur, blogger and social activist – was sentenced to five years for alleged scheming with a firm from Kirov Oblast.
For the ones who do not know who Alexei Navalny...
August 5, 2013 11:23 am / no comments
The world has been slipping further into economic illiteracy over the past five years, with seemingly no country immune. From the United States, ostensibly, still a bastion of classical liberal orthodoxy, we have seen laws enacted (and upheld...
April 10, 2013 1:26 pm / no comments
Forecasts concerning the future of Russia are widely divergent which is alarming and should receive our immediate attention.
On one hand, there are forecasts concerning the possibility of the Russian Federation’s territorial breakdown –...
August 27, 2012 10:42 am / 2 comments