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The former head of Germany‘s Social Democrats has travelled to Moscow multiple times since the start of Russia‘s full scale invasion. Investigation by ⁦[email protected]⁩ ⁦traufetter⁩ and myself ⁦DER SPIEGEL⁩ (1) spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…

#weshouldhavelistenedtotheBaltics

Poor russia only wanted to invade a neighboring state, raze its towns and villages to the ground, leave behind mass graves and torture chambers, rape, loot, and abduct civilians and suddenly, SUDDENLY, found itself demonized!

On Norway's security policy: upnorth.eu/from-hygge-to-…

Lepituspoliitika toidab karistamatustunnet. Sajand tagasi võimaldas Lääne passiivsus Nõukogude agressiooni Balti riikides, mis lõppes nende liitmisega NSV Liitu. Usk leebetesse tagajärgedesse saadab Venemaad ka täna. Mart Kuldkepp #LennartMeriConference diplomaatia.ee/mart-kuldkepp-…

Western passivity a century ago enabled Soviet aggression against the Baltic states, culminating in their annexation. Likewise, Russia invaded Ukraine, believing there would be no serious international consequences. Mart Kuldkepp #LennartMeriConference icds.ee/en/security-po…

Also a reminder that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is a democracy with a strong civil society, despite all its problems. No such protests would be allowed for a second in Moscow.

A chapter has closed in Estonian history. Ovid Avarmaa, the last surviving World War II resistance figure and operative of the Estonian National Committee—which fought against both Nazi and Soviet occupations—passed away in Montreal, Canada, at the age of 104.

Fort-Whiteman's death certificate

Russian soldiers tortured a 3-year-old boy and forced him to watch them sexually assault and kill his mother during the occupation of Kherson. His aunt was able to evacuate him to Odesa, a journey that took three days, she told SUSPILNE NEWS 📰 in an interview in 2024.

In our new investigation into Russia's use of children for their military drone program, crucial evidence came from Tatsiana Ashurkevich's undercover phone calls. Here are some of the most striking confessions she extracted.

Russian trolls and Kremlin propaganda are once again claiming that the Soviet occupation somehow brought economic growth to the Baltic states. Anyone who actually lived under Soviet rule knows how laughable that is. Still — here’s one chart that tells the whole story. This is

Pure evil.

When Russian trolls lose the economic argument — the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states did not develop but impoverished and destroyed them — they pivot to demographics, claiming the Balts are “dying out” as free nations. Here’s a reality check:

They’re all imperialist. However, British and French culture have both been analysed through a post-colonial lens, while Russia isn’t seen as a colonial entity even by some of the people writing about colonialism. This downplays the experiences of entire ethnicities and cultures