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Earlier this month, plaques dedicated to political and religious prisoners who died at Vladimir Central Prison under the communist regime were removed.

Earlier this month, plaques dedicated to political and religious prisoners who died at Vladimir Central Prison under the communist regime were removed. This i...

So long as anti-Kremlin projects, whether military or civilian, themselves remain centralist and ignore regional issues, they are unlikely to succeed.

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union forcibly deported over 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia – over 7,000 were women, children, and elderly people; the date is now observed as a day of mourning.

On 25 March 1949, over 20,000 people – nearly 3% of the Estonian population – were seized in a few days and dispatched to remote areas of Siberia.

No one saw the security crisis, virus crisis or energy crisis coming. Neither in Estonia nor elsewhere. Neither of the three crises has been manufactured by Estonia. They have hit us from the outside. They are the enemies against which the state must protect the Estonian people today. But we must not lose sight of the future in the process, Siim Kallas writes.

Of the former heads of state of the Republic of Estonia, eight out of ten were arrested during the first year of occupation. They were either murdered or died in captivity. Curiously enough, Konstantin Päts escaped this fate, Priit Uring writes in a comment first published in Sirp magazine.