On May 11, 2025, a City of Toronto municipal park and community centre once again served as the venue for a Russian Victory ...

During my years at school, maps hung on our classroom walls on which the Finnish borders were clear, as were those of the Soviet Union; Estonia however, did not appear on the map. A country that is ...

Sofi Oksanen speaking at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights. March 27, 2015 Photo: UpNorth Sofi Oksanen’s speech at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights: ...

As for my personal perception, I’m not ashamed to say to the citizens who voted for me, that throughout these eight years, I have worked like a galley slave. I am pleased with the results of my work ...

Little known to those outside of Finland, Finnish Karelia is a land of lakes and deep forests and the home of a culture that founded elements of today’s Finnish identity and politics. It is also a ...

I’m aboard the Riga-Daugavpils train, and we’re rattling along in an unhurried way from Latvia’s capital to its second-largest city; a distance of roughly 140 miles that takes us around four hours.

When Swedish television broadcast a film based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the seventies, Finland shut down the channels that broadcast the film from ...

Professor and former Finnish ambassador, Alpo Rusi and the former party secretary of The Finnish Centre Party, author Jarmo Korhonen have published a new book titled “The Kremlin’s Footsteps – ...

On 27 September 2019, the well-informed Norwegian security and defence portal Aldrimer.no reported that Russian Spetsnaz units were recently found operating inside Norwegian territory. More ...

Celebrated Estonian street artist Edward von Lõngus and Kadri Uus commissioned to create street art for Estonia 100 celebrations and Estonia's EU Presidency ...

The Northern European / UpNorth, brings together Nordic and Baltic Sea region views, issues and features the best ideas and culture that the region has to offer. The Northern European / UpNorth, ...