Despite the coronavirus pandemic putting an end to travel and public gatherings, it did not lessen Russia s activity in its operations against Estonia, the Internal Security Service (ISS) wrote in its yearbook.
At the height of the pandemic, the Kremlin s influence and intelligence activities against Estonia did not decrease. Closed borders and restrictions on public gatherings led local leaders of the Kremlin s policies of division to go online, ISS Director General Arnold Sinisalu wrote.
Sinisalu noted that Russian espionage is a continuous and permanent threat to Estonia.
The yearbook reads that in the turbulent coronavirus situation, local Kremlin followers saw an opportunity to to spread their messages as they intensified their influence activities on social media .
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law giving him the right to run for president again. The document was published on the official website of legal information.
The State Duma, the Russian Parliament, adopted the corresponding law on presidential terms on March 24. The document was elaborated to implement a new provision of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, according to which the
limitation of the number of terms shall be applied to the sitting head of state disregarding his previous presidential terms. Thus, Putin has been entitled to run for two more terms.
The law also tightens requirements for presidential candidates.