Spain has deployed advanced Norwegian-made Nasams surface-to-air defence missiles in Estonia as part of its commitment to NATO in the Baltic region. The Nasams system will protect the Amari air base, where NATO fighters operate as part of the Alliance’s rotating patrol shifts over the airspace above the Baltic statesContinue Reading
A record number of super-rich Norwegians are abandoning Norway for low-tax countries after the centre-left government increased wealth taxes to 1.1%. More than 30 Norwegian billionaires and multimillionaires left Norway in 2022, according to research by the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv. This was more than the total number of super-rich peopleContinue Reading
The Wagner military group defector Andrej Medvedev will be returned to Norway from Sweden, Swedish police confirmed on Friday. On Thursday evening, the Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osetshkin announced that Medvedev had been arrested in Sweden. According to Oseshkin, Medvedev took the bus to Gothenburg because the price ofContinue Reading
Sweden is set to hold its biggest military exercise in over 30 years. Sweden to hold biggest military exercise since 1989 Sweden is set to hold its biggest military exercise in over three decades on April 24th. Around 26,000 people are set to take part in the Aurora 23 exercise,Continue Reading
The exercise called “Secure Arctic 2023” included 16 scenarios and was held in nine Russian Arctic regions, from Murmansk in the west to Chukotka in the east. More than 60,000 people were engaged in training activities, the Emergency Ministry (Emercom) informs. The training was held only few weeks before RussiaContinue Reading
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) used the opening session of the XV Riigikogu to announce the resignation of the outgoing Reform-Isamaa-SDE coalition. Kallas will stay on as prime minister, as will two of the three parties (her party and SDE) who made up the outgoing administration. The announcement is oneContinue Reading
There remains no consensus within the incoming Reform-Eesti 200-SDE coalition as to what to do with the rights of Russian and Belarusian citizens ordinarily resident in Estonia to vote in local elections, with only an agreement existing not to amend the Constitution on this issue. All foreign citizens permanently residentContinue Reading
The Blue-and-Black Movement got 0.1 percent of the vote, with 2,307 people choosing the party in the parliamentary elections last Sunday. The leader of the openly racist and fascist Blue-and-Black Movement, Tuukka Kuru, has been charged over an anti-semitic tweet. The charges were filed at Satakunta District Court in southwestContinue Reading
President Alar Karis issued somewhat of a cautionary salvo to the incoming Reform-Eesti 200-SDE coalition, likely to enter office next week, calling them to act responsibly and not simply surf a wave of post-election victory popularly. The head of state particularly picked out what he called the “unseemly” treatment ofContinue Reading
Some 10,000 troops from around the world serve in UNIFIL. No Finnish UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) peacekeepers have been harmed following Israeli strikes on Lebanon early on Friday, the Finnish Army Command told news agency STT. The Israeli military carried out air strikes on Lebanon and GazaContinue Reading