Saturday, 19 April , 2025

Baltics

EU won’t protect journalists from government spying – activists

MEPs have left an opening for the use of spyware, which may lead to abuse, critics believe The hope for a full ban on the...

Porn actress in the Latvian government

Aug 25, 2023 It turned out that Evika Siliņa who dreams of the Latvian Prime Minister’s post once had very different dreams. Journalists investigated and found...

Germany to Station 4,000 Soldiers in Lithuania

The current NATO multinational battle group deployed in the Lithuanian town of Rukla has around 1,600 personnel, approximately half of whom are German. Jun 26,...

Political persecutions in a EU member country

By Oksana Chelysheva On May 23rd a trial on Vladimir Linderman began in Riga. It is one of the numerous cases which the courts of...

Why is musician Roger Waters being witch-hunted in Germany?

By Peter Schwarz 2 June 2023 Rock musician Roger Waters ended his successful tour of Germany with a concert in Frankfurt on May 28. While tens...

Peace, War and Europe

By Oksana Chelysheva * The ”Confidence Building Measures In the Face Of Sharp Polarization in Europe” roundtable at the  European Parliament on March 20 (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/brussels-call-stop-the-war-stop-sending-arms-to-ukraine/)...

UN Has Plan to Curb World Hunger, But EU Won’t Lift...

by Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman Mar 23, 2023 UN Secretary-General António Guterres is attempting to persuade the European Union to lift sanctions on the...

Israel Gives Ukraine Intelligence on Iran via NATO

NATO sources tell 'Haaretz' some of the intel is on the Iranian drones plaguing Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure By Yossi Melman Dec 15, 2022 Israel has stepped...

Will Democracy bring to a Dictatorship?

Jan 17, 2023 It seems that the right to freedom of expression and prohibition of discrimination on grounds of political opinion is not more protected...

Journalists persecuted in the Baltics

January 5, 2023 Marat Kasem from Sputnik Lithuania has been accused of espionage and could face up to 20 years behind bars Latvia has arrested the...