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Re-interring human remains currently buried at or near war memorials in Estonia is a job likely to take years, a defense ministry spokesperson said at a time when several such projects are either underway or under application.

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That is where russia starts. >> yeah. >> reporter: at the end of your street. >> yeah. >> reporter: and he says he can see the soldiers after dark with his night vision goggles. he points to a shooting range over the hill. you often hear the shots, he says, from there. soviet occupation is a deeply personal memory in this part of europe. he says his own father was among the quarter of a million lithuanians to be sent to gulags where many perished. so when russia annexed crimea, he joined the his...

Tuesday, June 14 marks the 81st anniversary of the June 1941 deportation of Estonians by the occupying Soviet regime. Over 10,000 people, including children, were deported, primarily to Siberia, on that date, and the national blue-black-white is being hoisted at half-mast nationwide to commemorate those who suffered.

RIGA: Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen's antiwar long animated film My Favourite War was released in over 40 cinemas in France on 20 April 2022. The French...

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On december 27th, 1979, soviet special forces stormed the presidential palace in kabul. the president, hafizullah amin, was killed. this was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. the soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. afghanistans communists had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition to the radical

From the soviet occupation. but our politicians made, for example, digitalisation a priority for estonian schools. it seems to me, reading the story about estonia, that trust is a big thing — trusting teachers, trusting children, and a freedom to learn, and to set the curriculum without the interference of politicians and school inspectors. would that be right? of course, we have freedom of expression. all the fundamental freedoms are protected, and im glad to say that estonia also ranks on th...

This is bbc news — these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. lets go to the joint news conference in lithuania. we shared together a deep commitment to democracy, to human rights, to the international rules based order as we recognise the foundation of our shared security which is being directly threatened by russias unprovoked unjustified war against ukraine. lithuanians understand the critical importance of every nations sovereignty and integrity being respected, having ...

Primarily women and children. and the hungarians were very welcoming, that voice breaking thing that people feel. it is so interesting that this is all in the same country that literally built a wall several years ago to stop refugees from coming into their country. their response now is so different. >> reporter: it is 180-degree turn. i was at that wall if 2015 when migrants and refugees were being kept out on a serbian-hungarian border. it is striking. it may be in part due to the fact that t...