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A Russian man has been captured and deported after surfing across the Narva River to Estonia to avoid mobilization for the Ukraine conflict Read Full Article at RT.com

Estonian border agents arrested a 38-year-old Russian citizen for illegally crossing the border between the two countries in an attempt to avoid mobilization, Estonian migration official Eerik Purgel said on Tuesday.

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, essentially approved of the horrors and crimes committed in Ukraine by "brothers" from Russia in his sermon on September 25, and it is still unclear what Orthodox Christians living in Estonia think of Kirill's statements, writes in his commentary the Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Urmas Viilma.

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, essentially approved of the horrors and crimes committed in Ukraine by "brothers" from Russia in his sermon on September 25, and it is still unclear what Orthodox Christians living in Estonia think of Kirill's statements, writes in his commentary the Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Urmas Viilma.

In an interview with ERR, Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Riina Sikkut (SDE) explained, that if Russia decides to drain the Narva reservoir, Eesti Energia will try to retain whatever water is available in the cooling channels. Sikkut explained, that it is not yet possible to say how many blocks will be able to continue producing electricity, should current back-up plans, be required.

Contingency plans in place in Estonia would deal with a situation where oil shale-burning power stations in the Narva area going off-line in the event of the Russian Federation draining a Soviet-built reservoir, which spans the border between the two countries.

A World War Two-era T-34 Soviet tank is to be installed in the town of Ivangorod, just across the river from Narva and on the Russian side of the border with Estonia.

At a meeting on Thursday, the government extended Eesti Energia's obligation to guarantee at least 1,000 megawatts of dispatchable electricity generation capacity until the end of 2026. Previously, the state, as the owner of Eesti Energia, had required the company to produce that capacity until 2023.

TALLINN - The Estonian government has given consent to the Police and Border Guard Board to take the components of the war monuments relocated f...

The Estonian government has decided to take the "Narva tank" and other Soviet-era monuments, which were removed from their locations in Narva last week, into state ownership. Previously, the monuments had belonged to the City of Narva, with some local councilors calling for them to be returned.