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Apr 30
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From the Independent:
One dead, hundreds arrested and the danger of more trouble to come. It’s not what we have come to expect of Estonia, better known to Britons as a playground and a place to buy property. Some will shake their heads, the phrase “far-off country of which we know little” coming to mind. We should resist that temptation. Like it or not, the expansion of the European Union to the Baltic states means Estonia’s crisis with Russia over the removal of a Soviet war memorial from the centre of Tallin is our concern, too. You wouldn’t know that, however, from the evasive murmurs coming out of Brussels and Germany, the current holder of the EU presidency.
We have had the strange spectacle of the EU nodding with apparent respect as Vladimir Putin’s ministers lecture Estonia on civil rights. This is hypocrisy on a grand scale, given Russia’s treatment of its unhappy Chechens and its rough handling of recent anti-government protests in Moscow and St Petersburg.
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