Posts Tagged
Russia-Estonia relations

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  2018/10/22 - 12:16 • International, More

  Does Estonia’s history with two Orthodox churches have lessons for Ukraine?

  Constantinople’s gift of autocephaly to Ukraine’s Orthodox church could have a very different outcome than the violent clashes the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian government have predicted or the Russian military intervention that...

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  2018/04/28 - 11:59 • International, More

  Ethnic Russians having become Estonian citizens form increasing share of Estonian Defense...

  Not only are ever more ethnic Russians choosing to become Estonian citizens, but they are joining the ranks of the Kaitseliit, the Estonian Defense League that until recently many Russian speakers viewed as an Estonian nationalist...

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  2017/07/15 - 10:10 • International, More

  Putin’s Donbas tactics won’t work in Baltic countries for economic reasons, Ilves...

  Moscow won’t be able to use “the Russian speaking diaspora” in Estonia and other Baltic countries as it did in the Donbas, however much propaganda it deploys against such people because they know that they earn more, have more...

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  2017/07/06 - 23:34 • History, International, More

  Disinformation across ages: Russia’s old but effective weapon of influence

  I. The Metropol gala It was 10 December 2015. Russia’s global propaganda television channel RT (formerly Russia Today) was celebrating its 10th anniversary with a lavish gala. The organizers had put great effort into hand-picking the...

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  2017/05/29 - 10:34 • International, More

  Spying is far from the only ‘action incompatible with diplomatic status’

  Tallinn has not yet provided an official explanation for its decision to expel two Russian officials from Moscow’s consulate in Narva, but Estonian experts say that such actions are typically taken because the officials involved are...

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  2017/05/22 - 00:25 • International, More

  “Putin tells why Russia is seedbed of terrorism” and other neglected Russian...

  The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...

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  2017/03/29 - 21:52 • International, More

  A Russian propaganda site incites breaking up Baltic countries

  Arguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the Russian propaganda site, SputnikPogrom, outlines how Moscow must work to split up the three countries into smaller units...

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  2017/03/24 - 12:58 • International, More

  New Threats Require a New Response: What the Baltic Countries and...

    By Paul A. Goble, Institute of World Politics Testimony Prepared for a Hearing on US Policy toward the Baltic States, US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Sub-Committee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats...

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  2016/09/24 - 11:41 • History, More

  77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of...

  Many people forget that Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II. This week includes an anniversary the Kremlin didn’t want anyone to mark or even remember: 77 years...

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  2016/05/12 - 06:38 • International, More

  Kremlin ‘really thinking about occupying Baltic countries,’ former RISI expert says

  Most commentators have dismissed as overblown suggestions that Moscow is preparing to occupy Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania because they are members of NATO and the EU and because such a Russian action would lead to a major military...

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