The Estonian weekly Eesti Ekspress interviewed the heads and several employees of Estonia’s, Latvia’s, and Lithuania’s state security agencies. This is what they had to say regarding Russia.
Simon Huxtable explores the history of Russian journalism in the Soviet Union and asks how, or whether, it compares to the situation of Russian journalists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
Thanks to brilliant writing and performance, the film becomes a universal story of an older couple trying to keep their love alive and fighting to make their way in a confusing new world.
Deficits. Defectors. Denunciations. Analysts have long said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies are partly driven by nostalgia for the Soviet Union. As Moscow's war in Ukraine nears its third month, that nostalgia is increasingly coming true as long-forgotten Cold War-era terms return.