The feeling here is that much of the build up was for domestic consumption and it failed to impress. Please note that on the day he is supposedly descalating, he has also slapped another 10 years on … (View Post)

Rumours swirling, but seems like the Kremlin is looking like they want to take the "Ukraine won´t join NATO" statement as their exit route. However, there has been considerable damage done … (View Post)

Although the main news in Tallinn is the selection of the Estonian Eurovision entry, someone did ask me an interesting rhetorical question, namely "how much damage has already been done to the P… (View Post)

Morale is fine, we´ve been living next to the Putin Shit show for nearly 25 years, and have been warning that this was going to happen from the beginning. The local Russians are not a monolith, and t… (View Post)

A clammy thaw here in Tallinn, which means that the soft ground of the Pripyat marshes, 600 miles south of here are also getting more difficult for armoured columns to get across. The "exercises… (View Post)