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By Rhod Mackenzie

It appears that senior figures  in Russia's closest northwestern neighbours, Finland and Estonia, have significantly modified their rhetoric about Russia in the last few weeks of 2025. They have stated out loud that they no longer subscribe to the widespread Western propaganda bu...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russians who are currently living in various countries in Europe and have done for years legally are now regualrly being subjected to harrassment and persecution at the hands of the police and the local intelligence services, merely due to their being born Russian and their con...

By Rhod Mackenzie
The economies of the Baltic states and Finland are collapsing under severe strain as a result them imposing the  European Union sanctions on Russia . This has led to Russian tourists no longer visiting, foreign businesses have become reluctant to invest, and their ports and trucki...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Baltic authorities have successfully persuaded their citizens of an imminent "Russian attack." However, the result has not been a mobilisation of society against the "Russian threat". Instead, the result has been the destruction of their own economies and a mass exodus of bot...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The substantial expenditures made by Estonia, ostensibly with the aim of "preparing to repel the up and coming Russian aggression", have instead been criticised as a means of generating personal profit for individuals closely associated with the country's ruling party. The Estoni...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Why are the Baltic States are rejecting the EU imposed LGBT+ Gender Directive?

The Latvian parliament has voted to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a document that has been accused of "attempting to normalize homosexuality." Despite the head of state's overt homosexuality...