On 27 September 2019, the well-informed Norwegian security and defence portal Aldrimer.no reported that Russian Spetsnaz units were recently found operating inside Norwegian territory. More specifically, Russian forces were discovered both on Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, and on mainland Norway.
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The seed of defeat for Juha Sipilä’s party was sown at the start of the government’s term.
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Russia is neither ten feet tall nor the Soviet Union, but Northern Europe must take the situation as it is and not as we want it to be: the Russian military’s training and exercise pattern is very worrying, argued Colonel Dr John Andreas Olsen of the Royal Norwegian Air Force, Eerik Marmei, Director-General of the Policy Planning Department at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Tomas Jermalavičius, ICDS Head of Studies, at an ICDS Talk on 25 January.
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On 22 January 2018, the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute/ICDS in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation presented the report “The Nordic-Baltic Region in the EU 27: Time for New Strategic Cooperation” by Piret Kuusik and Kristi Raik.
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The Brexit process is changing the balance of power and coalition politics in the European Union.
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Sweden continues to treat Estonia as a stranger
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Shortfalls in air defence would leave the Baltic states vulnerable to the effects of a fast-moving air campaign
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Estonian Foreign Policy Institute’s Junior Researcher Piret Kuusik attended a conference “From ‘Visegrad Four’ to ‘Varna Four’: The Rise and Role of Regional Cooperation in Central and South Eastern Europe” in Budapest, Hungary.
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In 2015, the Baltic states declared their intent to withdraw from the BRELL agreement and desynchronize their power grids from the IPS/UPS synchronous area to which they still belong as part of the legacy of Soviet occupation.
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Russia cannot understand what it has done to its neighbours
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