Sergey Alexandrovich Karaganov is a Russian political scientist who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, a security analytical institution founded by Vitaly Shlykov. He is also the dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Moscow's Higher School of Economics. Karaganov was a close associate of Yevgeny Primakov, and has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is considered close to Putin and Sergey Lavrov.
Ukrainian soldiers killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. Karaganov called for the "destruction of Ukrainian military forces" and then to force Ukrainians to be "more peaceful and friendly to us."
In June 2023, Karaganov called for nuclear strikes against NATO member states in Europe.
Lennart Georg Meri was an Estonian writer, film director and statesman. He was the country's foreign minister in 1990–1992 and President of Estonia in 1992–2001.
Enn Säde and Lennart Meri in 2002
Meri in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1998, 350 years after the Peace of Westphalia
Meri's grave at Forest Cemetery in Tallinn.