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In early May, Ján Mazák, a forty-six-year-old man from Košice, attempted to swim across the Narva River from Estonia to Russia out of admiration for the

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A ‘tame’ Russian concert across the Narva River signals a potential escalation in wartime tensions, posing a risk to Nato’s eastern front in Estonia

Russian authorities requested a meeting with representatives of the Estonian police to demand that they remove a poster placed on the Narva fortress by the Estonian-Russian border calling the Russian president Vladimir Putin a war criminal, the regional newspaper Põhjarannik writes.

Estonia remembers and has seen its position be vindicated amid the Ukraine war. Other European countries could learn from its example.

A NATO minnow on the front line with Russia is urging allies to adopt an uncompromising strategy to strategically defeat Moscow.

At present, around 70 percent of the Narva River border with Russia is covered by surveillance equipment...

Civilian and military personnel have been removing razor wire installed on Estonia's southeastern border nearly a year ago amid fears that a migration crisis precipitated by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus would be played out in Estonia also, in this case by the Russian Federation, daily Postimees reports.

State-owned Transmission Systems Operator Elering and state-owned electricity generator Eesti Energia have signed an agreement establishing the rights and requirements both companies have in ensuring the continued operation of the domestic electricity grid, and the supply of electricity to consumers, in the case of a crisis.

The construction of the Nord Stream pipelines breached international environmental law's precautionary principle and ecosystem approach. In addition, in the aftermath of the Second World War about 230,000 tons of chemical weapons were dumped into the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak Strait at sites near the current Nord Stream gas pipelines, writes Alexander Lott, a fellow at the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea and lecturer in administrative law at the University of Tartu.