Russia is a great power, and its determination to remain one is well understood by the countries that border it. But Russia’s interests also connect with the challenges and problems of an often...
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Russia’s attention to history – especially to WWII or what they call Great Patriotic War – has steadily grown since 1995 and has by now exceeded the Soviet era and is still growing, Dr Ivo...
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ICDS head of security and resilience programme / research fellow Ivo Juurvee and Diana Marnot analysed narratives on the Nordic-Baltic countries promoted by Russia in a chapter in NATO StratCom CoE...
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ICDS chief executive Dmitri Teperik, research fellow Tony Lawrence, EFPI junior research fellow Frank Jüris and EFPI senior fellow James Sherr participated in the Rīga Conference 2020 on 11-12...
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On Monday, 9 November 2020, ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik and other experts briefed the members of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic...
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In this session of the Lennart Meri Conference Talks, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Pulitzer-prize winning historian and staff writer for The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum get into...
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The Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (EFPI) at the ICDS together with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs will explore in a new project the risks and...
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The supervisory board of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) selected Indrek Kannik to be the new Director of the ICDS following a public competition. Kannik will take up his...
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ICDS is bringing the spirit of the Lennart Meri Conference online. Over the coming months, we will be challenging leading foreign and security policy thinkers around the world to address topical...
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At the Annual Baltic Conference on Defence (ABCD) on 30 September, representatives from NATO, Allies and partners, as well as defence and security experts and reserve officers will examine the impact...
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