Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
It has been more than a century, but now the Baltic state of Estonia has its first explosives plant as an independent state again. Located at Ämari Air Base, which also houses NATO air defence jets, the company Nitrotol will […]
Groups of tech teachers in Estonia have been given a crash course in how to fly and assemble drones, something that they are expected to teach to their students. While drones rule the battlefield in Ukraine, drone flying is becoming […]
A Finnish district court has stopped prosecution of the crew of the Eagle S, a ship that reportedly destroyed parts of the Finnish-Estonian Estlink 2 and four internet cables in December 2025, for sabotage. Since the suspected sabotage did take […]
An outcry by Estonia and several NATO countries over three old Russian Air Force MiG-31 (NATO codename: Foxhound) on 19 September. According to Estonian and NATO sources, the triplet violated Estonian aerospace over the Gulf of Finland near the Estonian […]
Estonia and Sweden are close to a deal to house up to 600 Swedish inmates in a prison in Tartu. The Swedish prison capacity is insufficient, and the one in Estonia is open to include the Swedish convicts. The Tartu […]
How to fly and use a drone will be part of the compulsory national defence education at high schools in Estonia. This is the result of an agreement between that the government parties reached on 26 May 2026. Flying drones […]
Estonia is preparing law changes to allow its citizens to own and use more weapons than before. Reason is the increased threat of a Russian invasion in the near future. “The current Weapons Act was written in an entirely different […]
On 18 March 2025, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have announced they will leave the Ottawa Treaty that bans those who signed it to use anti-personnel mines. The ministers of defence of the four countries have issued a joint statement […]
Measured in Gross National Product, the Baltic states and the Nordic countries are the biggest donor to Ukraine. Trump’s United States comes 17th on this list, according to a recent listing by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW […]
In about one month, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cut themselves off from the Russian power grid, called BRELL. On February 8, the Baltic electricity operators will leave the Russian power supply, and join the European on the 9th, a year […]
The train companies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have made it easier to travel to the capitals of the three Baltic states by train. Launch on 6 January, it is now possible to make the entire stretch in 10 hours, […]
UPDATE 3 MARCH 2025 | On Friday, 3 January 2025, the Finnish authorities confirmed they continue having the crude oil tanker Eagle S and its crew impounded in Finnish territorial waters. The vessel, reportedly part of the “Russian shadow fleet”, […]