Eston Kohver
Uncategorized

Estonian Security Police officer’s detention in Moscow extended until April

On Monday, a Moscow court extended the custody of Estonian Security Police (KaPo) official Eston Kohver until 5 April, Estonia’s Public Broadcasting reports. […]

No Picture
Foreign affairs

Anatomy of Russia’s information warfare in the Baltic states

Russia has consistently applied its own interpretation of history and dose of propaganda vis-à-vis the Baltic states. In the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the main source of tension in the propaganda sphere was the interpretation of Soviet history, in particular Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. […]

No Picture
Uncategorized

Putin’s Russia. Roots of today’s regime date back to KGB under Andropov

In the articles of Putin’s Russia series I have repeatedly written about Yevgeny Primakov’s clan. I have described in detail the ongoing battle regarding the implementation of the so-called peace plan in Ukraine, and Primakov’s influence structures both in Russia and in the West. The article about Yevtushenkov’s case was also inevitably related to the information about Primakov’s clan because the oligarch was considered the member of this clan. […]

Johannes Leppanen
Economy

Viasat agrees to halt rebroadcasting of Russian TV channels in Lithuania

TV rebroadcaster Viasat plans to halt the broadcasting of Russian TV channels if the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania decides to ban rebroadcasting of such channels, the company’s CEO for the Baltic countries and Finland said on Monday. […]

Ramūnas Bogdanas
Opinion

Opinion: Beware of unwavering optimists

As the saying goes, a pessimist is just a well-informed optimist. Russia‘s president is able to get any kind of information, but this is not enough: it is important how this information is processed and used. One can judge from Vladimir Putin‘s 3 hours and 10 minutes long press conference, where he answered 53 questions, that his mind is protected from reality by a very dense sieve which only lets through information that he anticipates. The rest is rejected or modified in such a way that it becomes unrecognisable. […]

Russian MFA
Uncategorized

Russia threatens with rebuff after US president signs Ukraine Freedom Support Act

Russia will not leave Washington’s actions without response, the United States will be fully to blame for the consequences, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich warned on Friday in connection with the signing by US President Barack Obama of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act. […]