Today, ICDS Tallinn had the pleasure of hosting a meeting with the Latvian Foreign Minister, Baiba Braže, and the head of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, Kaupo Rosin. 🇱🇻🇪🇪

Latvian MFA 🇱🇻 | #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 Latvia in Estonia Helga Kalm Marek Kohv Välisluureamet / EFIS

This week!

I will be traveling to the The Russia Program conference in DC to present my research on Russia's idea of ‘multipolarity’.

Excited to share a panel with excellent scholars Lukas Wahden Raushan Zhandayeva Mark N. Katz, chaired by Marlene Laruelle.

Chechnya: Putin's Pitbull or Achilles Heel? What is the fate of Chechnya after Kadyrov? Interview with Ivan U. Kłyszcz on the instability of Chechnya, Global South, Greyzone warfare, BRICS and other themes. Ivan U. Kłyszcz - #NAFO #NAFO fellas Mriya Report - youtu.be/PM1Fc1uTQac

European intelligence agencies and Yours Truly assess an increased risk of Russian clandestine operations in Europe: politico.eu/article/russia…

Enjoying a lazy Tallinn Saturday, catching up with Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Had yesterday a rich exchange with Jonathan Fink 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 Silicon Curtain Podcast on the latest reporting from Chechnya, Russia and the Global South, and much more. Make it your weekend watch!

Also, an example of huge increase of cyber attacks against #Estonia by Kremlin backed groups - in March, #Estonia was subject to over 3 billion (!) DDoS attacks. Good thing is that the impact was rather low.
news.err.ee/1609278921/ria….

NEW! Very excited to see out in the world my contribution to the excellent Minority Rights - Eurac Research programme on autonomy arrangements. This one continues my research on Karakalpakstan's puzzling autonomy status. Please, share your thoughts! Open access:

Les russes de African Corps s’installent sur la base américaine à Niamey. lemonde.fr/afrique/articl…

This is the fear on the back of my mind:

More footage of riot police attacking protestors against Georgia's draft foreign agent law.

➡️ Live updates: oc-media.org/georgias-forei…

GPS interference in Estonian airspace by RF has affected civil aviation in our region.
In doing so Russia violates int’l regulations.
Discussed the situation with Baiba Braže Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 Elina Valtonen Tobias Billström
We’ll address the issue with #NATO allies & #EU partners

An impressive demonstration of Russian hybrid capabilities: pointlessly attacking one of the tiniest international airports in Europe with whopping two flights a day (and now none).

'It's Estonia’s historical responsibility as well as its self-interest to support the aspirations of #Ukraine and other candidate countries to reach that dream.' 🇪🇺

Kristi Raik writes how Estonia has fared in the EU.
icds.ee/en/having-doub…

The global, even in the local:

Many happy memories in Åland during my fellowship at the Ålands fredsinstitut!

This is my beautiful home town Tartu in Estonia. GPS jamming in the region by Russia has now gotten so bad that Tartu airport has not been able to receive flights for the last two days.

Hybrid warfare against Estonia - a NATO member for 20 years - is getting worse. 1/5

Some time back, The Insider published an article about what can be called ‘Russophobia Studies’, a pseudo-science meant to justify Russia's war. I keep going back to it and wonder, what other pseudo-science is Russia funding to justify its fopo? theins.ru/en/amp/society…