Finland’s Helsinki District Court has concluded that it has no jurisdiction in the criminal case over the severing of undersea power and data cables in the Gulf of Finland in December 2024, YLE reported. In the case, the captain and two shipmates of the Eagle S oil tanker were charged with aggravated sabotage, aggravated interference…
Estonian President Alar Karis has asked the Supreme Court to declare proposed amendments to the law regulating religious organisations unconstitutional, ERR reports. Earlier, the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, passed a law to curb the influence of foreign organisations on churches in Estonia. There are concerns over the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church’s (EKÕK) canonical ties to…
Lithuania’s new Minister of Culture, Ignotas Adomavicius, resigned on 3 October 2025 after just one week in office, LRT reported. Adomavicius, a member of the far-right populist party, Dawn of Nemunas, said that he resigned “so as not to disrupt the government’s work.” Earlier, in an interview with Lietuvos Rytas, Adomavicius evaded questions on Lithuania’s…
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte clashed over the defence alliance’s response to Russia’s recent airspace violations, ERR reports, citing Fox News. After Russian fighter jets made a brazen incursion into Estonian airspace on 19 September 2025, Estonia requested consultations under Article 4 of the NATO treaty. Given that NATO…
The first stage of a planned European “drone wall” could be completed by 2028, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda stated, BNS reports. Speaking ahead of a European Political Community summit in Copenhagen, Nauseda suggested allocating funds for the project’s second stage in the EU’s next multiannual budget. He pointed out that recent events had shown that…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has expressed “grave alarm” at the decision of the three Baltic States, Finland, Poland, and Ukraine, to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel mines, BNS reported. Türk stressed that the international convention, which has over 160 state parties, was a crucial tool in “responding to…
An Estonian volunteer fighting against Russia in Ukraine was killed in action on 25 June 2025, ERR reports. Alo Klaassepp, 25, was killed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region near the town of Borova. He was fighting as part of the international battalion of Ukraine’s 3rd Assault Brigade. Klaassepp, who was from Pärnu, joined the Armed Forces…
The Lithuanian Migration Department (LMD) has revoked the temporary residence permit of a Russian citizen for repeatedly travelling to Russia and Belarus, BNS reports. The person is the first to lose their residence status under a new law, which bars Russian citizens from travelling to either country more than once within any three-month period. LMD…
A court in Estonia has found two Moldovan nationals guilty of an arson attack against a Ukrainian restaurant in Tallinn in January 2025, ERR reports. The two men were arrested in Italy in February 2025. One of the defendants told prosecutors that he was tasked by persons connected to Russian military intelligence (GRU) to firebomb…