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![Members of the Estonian army train on February 8, 2022, in Lasna, Estonia. (Photo by Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1369367517.jpg?itok=crwgfQKC)
Ambassador Kyllike Sillaste-Elling, the undersecretary for political affairs at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will join Hudson for a conversation on the Estonian experience in NATO.
![Members of the Estonian army train on February 8, 2022, in Lasna, Estonia. (Photo by Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1369367517.jpg?h=26a1d316&itok=BO8L258k)
![How Civil Defense Boosts Deterrence: A View from Sweden Carl-Oskar Bohlin](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1662836271.jpg?itok=BoCngwH1)
![Georgia, Ukraine, and the Euro-Atlantic Community: An Update from the Front Lines of Freedom](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-05/GettyImages-2150344725.jpg?itok=2dUILkPZ)
Join Hudson for a conversation with Nona Mamulashvili, a former member of the Georgian parliament, and Mamuka Mamulashvili, commander of the Georgian Legion in Ukraine.
![Georgia, Ukraine, and the Euro-Atlantic Community: An Update from the Front Lines of Freedom](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-05/GettyImages-2150344725.jpg?h=cf39e23d&itok=VT4TvhsC)
![The NATO and Lithuanian flags fly on July 9, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-04/GettyImages-1527606933.jpg?itok=IPixW-gz)
Join Hudson Institute’s Peter Rough as he sits down with Lithuania’s minister of defense, Laurynas Kasčiūnas.
![The NATO and Lithuanian flags fly on July 9, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-04/GettyImages-1527606933.jpg?h=7d94169d&itok=ANJC0Vol)
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![Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala on March 8, 2022, in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-04/GettyImages-1239026114.jpg?itok=hKzuyaNs)
Join Hudson to hear Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s understanding of the current moment and a Czech prescription for transatlantic relations in turbulent times.
![Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala on March 8, 2022, in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-04/GettyImages-1239026114.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=gEQUGReg)
![People walk past a poster depicting Russian warships sunk by Ukrainian attacks in the Black Sea on March 16, 2024, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Oleksii Chumachenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-04/GettyImages-2093939410.jpg?itok=__h5z_qV)
![Belarusian presidential candidates Andrei Sannikov speaks to journalists after voting in Minsk, Belarus, on December 19, 2010. (Photo by Maksim Malinouski/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-03/GettyImages-2003718048.jpg?itok=6Nr5C8B8)
Belarusian opposition leader Andrei Sannikov will offer remarks on Belarus’s strategic importance, Russia’s regional ambitions, and prospects for political change in Minsk.
![Belarusian presidential candidates Andrei Sannikov speaks to journalists after voting in Minsk, Belarus, on December 19, 2010. (Photo by Maksim Malinouski/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-03/GettyImages-2003718048.jpg?h=c5f3fdf7&itok=gJduRyXO)
![The first ever Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing (SRVL) has been carried out with an F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter jet conducting trials onboard the new British aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth. (Courtesy photo by Royal Navy)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-03/4818372.jpg?itok=rxmFsIw1)
Join Hudson for an event that will examine the new policy memo “Geopolitical Changes in Northern Europe Require a Fresh Approach to the Region.”
![The first ever Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing (SRVL) has been carried out with an F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter jet conducting trials onboard the new British aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth. (Courtesy photo by Royal Navy)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-03/4818372.jpg?h=1116cd87&itok=pXwFK8TK)
![Fighter jets execute a flyover dedicated to the nineteenth anniversary of Lithuania's accession to NATO on March 29, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-03/GettyImages-1249911676.jpg?itok=_VgPHHxG)
![Latvian soldiers march during a military parade on Armed Forces Day 2023 in Vilnius. (Photo by Yauhen Yerchak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-03/GettyImages-1802702589.jpg?itok=OzZIuXAt)
![A Ukrainian flag is hanging in the window of an apartment building that has been heavily damaged during Russia's massive rocket attack on Kyiv, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 3, 2024. (Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-02/GettyImages-1898120160.jpg?itok=t-coVeCa)