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Lithuania to propose NATO provide Membership Action Plan to Ukraine

Posted on April 8, 2021 by RedSquareMaidan 2 comments

07 April, 2021 – Ukrinform https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3223102-lithuania-to-propose-nato-provide-membership-action-plan-to-ukraine.html Lithuania will propose that NATO Allies provide a Membership Action Plan (MAP) to Ukraine, thus allowing the country to become a member of the Alliance, according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. He said this at a press conference following a meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, who is on a visit

Russia expels Estonian diplomat in tit-for-tat

Posted on February 20, 2021 by foccusser One comment

Estonian authorities expelled a Russian diplomat from the country, announced at a briefing the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. “The newly sworn-in Government of Estonia may have decided to show loyalty to Washington and Brussels in this way. The Russian Embassy diplomat in Tallinn was announced persona non grata without any justification. He was responsible for culture,

Estonian PM: Russia has humiliated Europe

Posted on February 11, 2021 by foccusser 5 comments

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas believes that the results of the visit of the EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell to Moscow are humiliating. “Russia has humiliated the representative of Europe, humiliated Europe,” said Kallas speaking in the country’s parliament. “I think all this will cool down people who naively hoped that

MS Estonia: Europe’s worst shipping disaster ’caused by Baltic submarine collision’

Posted on October 9, 2020 by foccusser 11 comments

The 1994 sinking of an Estonian cruise ship in which 852 people drowned may have been caused by a collision with a submarine, a documentary team has suggested. The programme’s makers said a remote-controlled probe they sent to explore the wreckage of the MS Estonia had spotted a previously unknown hole in the hull that is four metres high and

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LIVE: Estonia holds a discussion on human rights in Belarus at the UN Security Council

Posted on September 4, 2020 by foccusser Leave a comment

On the initiative of Estonia, a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and backed by many United Nations member states, a high-level meeting will be held to discuss human rights abuses in Belarus. Belarus, a country bordering the Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania as well as Russia, Poland and Ukraine, has in recent weeks seen an unprecedented number

Estonian Foreign Ministry summons Russian ambassador for justification of Soviet occupation

Posted on July 24, 2020 by foccusser One comment

The Russian diplomat tried to pose the occupation and annexation of Estonia by the USSR as a legal move Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Estonia summoned the ambassador of the Russian Federation due to his attempts to justify the Soviet occupation of this country in the 1940s-late 1980s. ERR reports that the diplomat was trying to pose the occupation and

Estonia Demands ‘Annexed’ Territory Back From Russia

Posted on November 21, 2019 by foccusser 6 comments

Estonia wants Russia to return its territory that it says is annexed by Moscow, its top lawmaker has said as the prospects of a Russian-Estonian border treaty turned grim this year over Tallinn’s territorial claims. Estonia is the only NATO member lacking a ratified border treaty with Russia. The two countries have sparred as recently as this spring over a

One Article, Many Ways to Disinform

Posted on September 9, 2019 by foccusser 5 comments

The recent purchase of an anti-tank missile system by Estonia resulted in illogical, threatening and ridiculing narratives by pro-Kremlin media. The Estonian Defence Forces are caught in the crosshairs of the pro-Kremlin disinformation machine, covered by outlets that are primarily local – for example Sputnik, Baltnews and Rubaltic. In addition to news pieces that typically consist of the defence forces’

Kremlin: Estonia’s non-recognition of Russian passports is a ‘humanitarian blockade of the Donbas’

Posted on August 7, 2019 by foccusser 5 comments

The Russian embassy in Tallinn has commented on a decision by the Estonian Foreign Ministry not to recognize Russian passports issued to inhabitants of the Ukrainian Donbas. “It is regrettable that Estonia continues to persistently fight to lead the race among EU countries on the anti-Russian track. We are convinced that the Estonian authorities’ effective participation in the humanitarian blockade

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