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In Estonia, the debate over the fate of Russian citizens' voting rights is heating up as the government considers restricting their participation in local elections. This policy shift emerges in response to Russia's ongoing military aggression against Ukraine. The United Nations has branded Russia an aggressor state, and the Estonian Ministry of Justice is now…
Number of Russian citizens who apply for Estonian citizenship doubled last year but the process of changing citizenship now is delayed.
The Harju County Court on Thursday sentenced pro-Russian political activist Sergei Seredenko to five and a half years in prison for actions against the Estonian state. The sentence is longer than what was sought by the prosecution.
I believe that Russia will long since have lost the war once local elections roll around in Estonia. Trying to bypass the Estonian Constitution because of a fading empire would demonstrate little faith in a Ukrainian victory and not enough pride in our Constitution, Toomas Jürgenstein writes.
The justice chancellor initializing constitutional review of amendments is a completely normal process, also as applies to revoking the local elections voting rights of third country citizens, Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise said on the "Otse uudistemajast" webcast.