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The war? Nothing to do with Stalin, says Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev
Luke Harding in Moscow, guardian.co.uk
It is a debate that has raged in European capitals ahead of the 70th anniversary on Tuesday of the beginning ...
 
Stalin's speech to the Politburo on 19 August 1939, reconstructed from renderings in Novyi Mir, Moscow, and Revue de Droit International, Geneva
The question of war and peace has entered a critical phase for us. Its solution depends entirely on the position which will be taken by the Soviet ...
 
The Western View of Russia
George Friedman | STRATFOR

A months-long White House review of a pair of U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) installations slated for Poland and ...
 
History weighs heavy on World War Two anniversary
Gareth Jones

WARSAW, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Arguments between Russia and the West about who shares responsibility with Hitler for the start of World ...
 
Minesweepers scour Baltic Sea 70 years after start of WWII
AFP

TALLINN, Estonia — One of the largest searches for unexploded sea mines dating from the World War Two began Monday off Estonia, some 70 ...
 
The Record of the Federal Reserve
Erik Voorhees | TCS Daily

Not a day goes by without talk of the Federal Reserve, whether by the organization itself or by its opponents. An ...
 
Stalin planned to annex parts of Iran, Turkey and China using Molotov-Ribbentrop ‘model,’ Azerbaijani scholar says
VIENNA, August 31 – Stalin viewed the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Moscow to seize the Baltic countries, ...
 
We must not forget the real causes of the war
Norman Davies, The Independent
It was Hitler’s invasion of Poland that set off the Second World War war, argues Norman Davies, one of our leading ...
 
Central and East European Coalition meets with White House officials to discuss U.S. policies in the region
Washington, DC (JBANC) --- Following recent important foreign policy trips by President Obama to Moscow and Vice President Biden to Ukraine and ...
 
Sticks and stones
Russia needs to play nice
Europe.view column, from Economist.com

NAUGHTY and tiresome children like insults (both overt and needling) as well as ...
 
Armed Forces as a Learning Organisation
Tomas Jermalavicius, ICDS

Confronted with formidable challenges of counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States military realised ...
 
An Agenda for NATO
Toward a Global Security Web
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2009

NATO's 60th anniversary, celebrated in April ...
 
Russia’s Finno-Ugric peoples challenge Soviet-imposed identities
VIENNA, August 28 -- The Erzya and Moksha, two Finno-Ugric peoples more commonly known collectively, as a result of Soviet-era ethnic engineering, as ...
 
New Russian history book (3)
Packed with glaring mistakes and deliberate misinformation

“Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were not occupied in 1940, but rather were ...
 
Estos at the Ex
Two Estonians that are making a return visit to the Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition this year.

Massage therapist Lidia Karpets ...
 
Libya: A Hero's Welcome
Scott Stewart and Fred Burton | STRATFOR

On Aug. 24, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill addressed a special session of the Scottish ...
 
University of Toronto thanks Tartu College for continued financial support
Tartu College received two letters from U of T this summer expressing appreciation for continued generosity:
 
Black Ribbon Day letter to Stephen Harper
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

We are sending you an open letter from the Eastern and Central European communities in Canada, their national ...
 
BALTIC BASH 2009 Labor Day Weekend, September 5 & 6, Lakewood NJ
Let’s get together and make some memories!

Saturday

2:00 Folkdance Workshop—open to all. Learn an Estonian folkdance

...
 
DriveTest Tallies Impact of USW Strike
TORONTO, ON - – DriveTest estimates that 4,000 people per day have not been able to obtain their Driver’s Licence because of the current strike ...
 
US Navy stunt team "Blue Angels" return to CNE Air Show
The United States Navy Blue Angels return to the CNE to demonstrate their art after 23 years. So does the United States Air Force with their front ...
 
EstDocs REMINDER!
Only two weeks left to submit your short film to the EstDocs Short Film Competition!

Do finish off that film, or take out your videocam or ...
 
Despite Patriarchate’s efforts, fewer Russians think about the GULAG
VIENNA, August 26 – Ever fewer Russians display much interest in Stalin’s system of camps, the notorious GULAG through which millions of their ...
 
Dam disaster affecting Siberians the Way Chernobyl affected Ukrainians
VIENNA, August 26 – Just as the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident convinced many Ukrainians that they did not want to remain part of the Soviet ...
 
Our soldiers send support for JK Jazz
Members of the Estonian military contingent in Afghanistan in Lashkar Gah’, capital of Helmand province, photo taken on Saturday, August 22nd, also ...
 
Trend Micro Rips Lid Off Estonian Cybercrime Hub
InformationWeek

An important Trend Micro paper, spotlighting a cybercriminal hub operating out of Estonia, has surfaced on Slashdot. The racket ...
 
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