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Vesti Dnja (Estonia) 12.07.2007

THE TIMES OF FEAR HAVE COME

People often fear to criticize the authorities openly LATELY people of Estonia are less and less eager to express any remarks that may cause resentment of the authorities in their own name. There is a sense that Estonia is getting back to the times when the authority was to be criticized only in a very close circle, and preferably in whisper. The times, when for political jokes, if not convicted, one would at least loose the job. However, “Vesti” found out that not everyone feels that way.

"Chas" (Latvia) 09th of July 2007

A birthday under Hitler’s flag celebrated the minister of justice of Estonia

Estonia is in the hands of scandal again. Minister of justice Rein Lang received congratulations with his 50th birthday on the background of a large flag of Hitler’s Germany. Usage of Nazi symbols in Estonia is officially forbidden, just like in Latvia. However, this fact did not stop the minister of (!) justice... Now an influential representative of the European Union is threatening to punish Estonia for rehabilitation of fascism.

Latvian party voices support for Tallinn monument defenders

RIGA . May 19 (Interfax/BNS) - A Latvian party that was formed on Saturday via the merger of two groups passed a resolution expressing support for Estonian activists who were arrested during protests against the relocation of a Soviet World War II memorial that stood in the center of Tallinn.

Identification of exhumed soldiers continues in Estonia

TALLINN, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - A forensic bureau in Estonia has carried out a preliminary identification of the soldiers exhumed from under the Soviet-era war memorial in central Tallinn, the Estonian Foreign Ministry said Friday. Estonian authorities dismantled the World War II memorial in central Tallinn on April 27 and moved it to a military cemetery on the outskirts of the city, where they promised to rebury the Soviet soldiers.

A schoolboy with hemophilia is held in the Estonian prison for his Russian connections

The 18 years old schoolboy Mark Siryk is left under arrest by the resolution of Kharyusskiy county court. Resolution of the district court, which ratified the resolution of the Kharyuskiy district court, is final and may not be appealed, informs the “Rosbalt” reporter.

17 May, 2007

A kid was beaten up by the "Detskiy mir"

Witnesses and victims of the people dispersal during the Bronze night will yet for a long time speak of it with tears in their eyes.

Our newspaper published dedicated phone numbers and over two dozens eyewitnesses and victims from Tallinn called in to tell about the crowd dispersal skills of the special force law enforcement agencies.

The Independent 17 may 2007

Estonia opens synagogue for first time since Nazi era

Estonia's last synagogue was wiped out in 1944, amid fierce gunfire and overhead air raids, as Nazi troops fled the Red Army's advance. But yesterday, after a six-decade wait, the country's 3,000-strong Jewish population finally donned prayer shawls and clutched siddurs, as the first synagogue since the Holocaust opened in Tallinn.