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Estonia ready to arrest Ukrainian immigrants to force them to mobilize

24 December 2023

Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Laanemets (see photo), member of the social democratic party, said he was willing to detain Ukrainian immigrants aged 25 to 60 and deport them to Ukraine, to be enrolled in the Kiev army.
To this end, the Ukrainian parliament is about to adopt a bill that will (…)

Two European Union states poised to sever diplomatic relations with Russia

26 January 2023

Going one step further in its relations with Russia, the Estonian Foreign Ministry confirmed the expulsion of the Russian Ambassador to his country, to which the Russian Ministry responded by ordering the Estonian Ambassador to leave Russia, no later than 7 February. The severance of diplomatic (…)

Russia is ready for war

by Välisluureamet

Tallinn (Estonia) | 15 February 2022

Military pressure and threats of war have become key foreign policy tools for Russia. Russian forces concentrated on the Ukrainian border pose an immediate threat to Ukraine and an ultimatum to the West. By the second half of February 2022, Russia has created the conditions and capabilities (…)

Russian comment on the 80th anniversary of the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Soviet Union

Moscow (Russia) | 22 July 2020

The ruling circles of the Baltic countries continue their attempts to promote a lopsided interpretation of the events related to the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Soviet Union 80 years ago.
The Russian position on this matter is well known. It is based on an objective (…)

“The Art of War”

The new iron curtain

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 20 September 2018

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have begun the construction of a new iron curtain which separates Northern Europe in two. The point is to remind people of the way in which the Soviet Union built an identical wall to prevent Central European refugees from fleeing to the West. And yet for the moment (…)

Estonia celebrates a Nazi Criminal

27 June 2018

On 22 June a commemorative plaque was dedicated to Colonel Alfons Rebane in Estonia.
Alfons Rebane collaborated with the Third Reich, holding the position of Standartenführer in the SS. He committed several war crimes in the Soviet Union.
The Estonian government did dissociate itself from (…)

Estonian Government pays tribute to Nazism

9 July 2013

The Minister of Defence of Estonia and Chairman of Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica (IRL), Urmas Reinsalu, sent on 7 July 2013 a message of support to the members of the "Estonian Union of freedom fighters," gathered for their annual get-together.
The "Union of freedom fighters" brings (…)