Opinion

Lieutenant General Martin Herem, the Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, writes that Russia is exploiting Ukrainian war refugees to make Western people worry about their own welfare and turn on the refugees, thus pressuring Ukraine into a deceitful peace. For years, politicians and security experts have thrown around the expression “hybrid war”, discussing it […]

Policymakers and the public can either boycott Russian energy fully today, to stop the invasion immediately; or they can watch Russian forces commit one outrage after another – every day moving closer to the territory of the EU, writes Oleg Ustenko, an economic adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Blocking the Russian central bank’s

The Estonian Council of Churches and the leaders of member churches, including Eugene, the head of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, issued a statement regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the reception of war refugees in Estonia; Estonian World publishes the statement in full. Since 24 February 2022, the world is

The Estonian president, Alar Karis, gave a speech on 16 March in Tallinn at a concert in support of Ukraine, where he said that the missiles falling on Ukrainian cities are falling on every city in Europe and that all of Europe is at war, fighting against the aggressor and for peace; Estonian World publishes

Daniil Novikov, an Estonia-based Russian citizen, humanitarian worker and a dad of three children, two of whom attend an Estonian-language kindergarten, writes that people in crisis need all our support, but hatred and suspicion of everything Russian will poison us. On 9 March, the Estonian Gun Owners’ Association proposed that the gun licences of Russian

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Estonia’s University of Tartu decided on 7 March that it will not accept new students with Russian and Belarusian citizenship in the next academic year, unless they already have a temporary resident permit or long-term visa; over 1,200 people have now signed a public letter that asks

The former Western military leaders, including the Estonian member of the European Parliament and the former commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, Riho Terras, are demanding that Ukraine be supplied with air defences; the petition was signed by 15 former military leaders from the US, the UK, Latvia, Germany and Lithuania – including Philip M.

The Estonian president, Alar Karis, on 26 February said in a speech at a demonstration against the Russian war in Ukraine that this was not a war of the Russian people, this was the Russian president Vladimir Putin’s war; Estonian World publishes Karis’s speech in full. The world we knew a week ago doesn’t exist

In the wake of the unprovoked Russian war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin-led Russia should be kicked out of every single international organisation it’s a part of, and embargoed by the entire free world like Cuba was by the United States in 1962, Sten Hankewitz, the Executive Editor of Estonian World, writes. It’s no secret that

The Estonian president, Alar Karis, said in his Independence Day speech on 24 February that it is easy to split and divide, but hard to listen and speak calmly so that different parties may come together and find common ground; all of us must improve this skill time and again and accept the fact that