Verilaske: In Search of a Bloodletting Estonian Village
“I have lived here all my life, and I’ve never been to Verilaske... maybe people who go to Verilaske never return."Continue Reading →
Sillamäe: Inside a Former Soviet Secret City in Estonia
Sillamäe was a ‘closed city,’ often referred to by codenames and guarded within a military perimeter – often it didn’t even appear on maps.Continue Reading →
Absences and Reminders: Searching for Soviet Statues in the Baltics
"While some cultures go to great lengths to eradicate reminders of their unwanted past, others are willing to let them slowly disintegrate"Continue Reading →
The Shadow in the East: An Interview with Aliide Naylor
"When Trump ascended to the US presidency I started looking more about what the division of the world into the great power blocs again might mean for the Baltic states"Continue Reading →
"Did You Eat the WHOLE Cake?" On Learning Estonian
"Estonian is popularly known as a difficult language to learn. The only other national languages it’s related to are Finnish and Hungarian."Continue Reading →