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On 2 February, Estonia commemorates the Tartu Peace Treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence, established the country’s eastern border and obligated Soviet Russia to recognise Estonian independence – the fact the Soviet Union ignored only 20 years later. The Tartu Peace Treaty, signed on 2 February 1920, was the treaty that ended the […]

31 August 2024 marks 30 years since the last Soviet – or Russian, as the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991 – troops left Estonia, completing the restoration of the country’s independence from Soviet occupation. When the Soviet Union occupied Estonia in June 1940, it stationed a number of its troops in the

On 2 November, the Estonian defence minister, Hanno Pevkur, spoke with his Israeli colleague Yoav Gallant about the situation in the Gaza Strip and the Estonian proposal to send medical and humanitarian aid to the region, in the sum of €240,000. Pevkur extended condolences to his colleague for those killed in the terrorist attacks.  “In

In a joint operation, the Cybercrime Bureau of Estonia’s National Criminal Police and the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two Estonian citizens – Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turygin – who are suspected of fraud and money laundering and having caused USD575 million in damages. The suspects, arrested on 20 November, allegedly defrauded hundreds

One of the Estonians behind the new service pravdamail.com – that lets you email random Russian email addresses to tell them what is happening in the war in Ukraine – told Estonian World that the goal of the service is peace in Ukraine and Europe. A member of the Estonian tech community behind the pravdamail.com

Fake news about Ukrainians attacking Estonian Russophones circulate in the social media – the Estonian police say none of these are true; at the same time, Russia has warned the Baltics about the consequences of “anti-Russian psychosis”. Fake news about Ukrainians attacking Estonian Russian-speaking people have started to circulate in the social media in Estonia

The US president, Joe Biden, said on 22 February that he had authorised additional movement of US forces and equipment already stationed in Europe to support America’s Baltic allies Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania against potential Russian threats; the enforcement includes lethal F-35 strike fighters and AH-64 Apache helicopters. “Let me be clear: these are totally

Estonia’s interior minister, the former leader of the far-right populist Estonian Conservative People’s Party, Mart Helme, announced on 9 November that he will resign as he’s “fed up” with the “libel and lies the Estonian media is producing”. “Looking at the libel and lies the Estonian media is producing, I last night decided to resign.

On 2 February 2020, Estonia is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Tartu Peace Treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence, established the country’s eastern border and obligated Soviet Russia to recognise Estonian independence – the fact the Soviet Union ignored only 20 years later. The Tartu Peace Treaty, signed on 2 February 1920,