Politics & Society

The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC) is announcing that its 5th Baltic Advocacy Days will be held virtually from May 2-6, 2022. This event is an opportunity for Baltic Americans to come together and engage with Congress about the key security issues impacting Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. With...

The Estonian American National Council (EANC) has been engaged for the last several weeks in advocating for U.S. support for humanitarian aid and security assistance in response to the war in Ukraine. It has also called for increased defense funding to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as the risk grows of...

As Russia continues to mount its military assault on Ukraine, the Baltic states have become increasingly distressed that they might be the next target of Vladimir Putin’s ruthless campaign. Victims of Russian occupation for forty-eight years, the citizens of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania suffered immensely under Soviet rule. However, these...

Estonia's Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) NATO battlegroup has doubled in size and there are currently 1,700 troops stationed at Tapa military base, writes ERR News.The battlegroup has been present in Estonia since 2017 and, until the start of 2022, it consisted of approximately 1,000 troops. After tensions rose between Russia...

The Estonian American National Council (EANC) has been supporting Ukraine on many levels in recent weeks. Our Washington, DC Director has participated in three national rallies organized in DC by our colleagues in the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), EANC’s partner organization in the Central and East European Coalition...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken Visited TallinnU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Estonia on March 8 as part of a tour of NATO's eastern flank. "NATO will defend every inch of its territory and the U.S. commitment to Article 5 is rock solid," Secretary of State Blinken confirmed...

The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC) vehemently condemns Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and its blatant breach of international law. It is not only an existential menace for Ukraine, but Moscow’s destabilizing belligerency endangers the region, Europe, and the global democratic order. The United States and its allies...

February 22, 2022 Russian president Putin’s order to “recognize” as independent and send “peace-keepers” into the Russian-occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine is a serious violation of international law and an escalation of Russia’s on-going war against Ukraine. Putin’s February 21st televised address, in which he lamented...

Those who have progressed through the American school system have undoubtedly learned much about the suffering of the Jewish people throughout the Holocaust. But few high school teachers (or even college professors) discuss genocidal details of Stalin’s communist regime. In her OpEd article in Harvard’s “Crimson,” entitled “100 Years. 100...