“Everyone understands now,” Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna told me, “that there is no situation anymore where ...

A commission formed jointly by the Estonian Government Office and under the National War Museum (Sõjamuuseum) has announced it has found over 360 war monuments and graves erected by Soviet authorities ...

When Estonia gained independence from the Soviet Union, about a third of its population was Russian-speaking, including families who had emigrated from other Soviet republics.Last month ...

Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was ... Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved following the collapse of its communist ...

Estonian lawmakers voted Wednesday to ban ... Nearly 80,000 Russian citizens hold a residence permit in the former Soviet republic of 1.3 million people, which regained its independence in 1991.

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... The USSR was eventually made up of 15 republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia ...

The year of 1988 in Estonia was exceptional - it came as a surprise for everyone that all of a sudden national symbols were allowed; expressions of no confidence were addressed towards the leaders ...

MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s achievements in space exploration belonged to all of the country’s 15 constituent republics and Russia has never tried to split and distribute it ...

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. The USSR republics’ right for secession was "the most dangerous time bomb" under the statehood of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in the article ...