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Estonian Internal Security Service is still investigating five criminal cases on crimes against humanity, committed during Soviet and Nazi occupation

18. January 2018

The criminal cases are connected to the deportations of June 1941 and March 1949, killings of forest brothers, crimes of the Nazi occupation, as well as war crimes committed by the Red Army in 1944.

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The exhibition "At The Water's Edge" continues its journey

12. January 2018

The exhibition "At The Water's Edge" has been opened at Nordens Institut på Åland in Finland (January 5th till Febuary 2nd). This is a space of exchange of personal memories from the Baltic Sea Region

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Kogu Me Lugu Presents Its Renewed Webpage

07. December 2017

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory’s oral history initiative, Kogu Me Lugu, has taken a big step forward in its fifth year of activity.

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Crimea asks to join Russia as West readies sanctions

17. March 2017

Crimea declared independence Monday and applied to join Russia while the Kremlin braced for sanctions after the flashpoint peninsula voted to leave Ukraine in a referendum that has sparked the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War.

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Ilves: we see fear or indifference towards violence in Europe

26. March 2014

We again see fearful or indifferent glances in Europe that don’t dare to do anything or don’t know what to do against violence, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said in his speech dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the 1949 March deportations on Tuesday, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

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Kyiv Signs EU Agreement As Putin Signs Crimea Annexation

21. March 2014

Moscow has completed the process of making Ukraine's Crimea part of Russia, as Ukraine's prime minister, in a highly symbolic move, signed a political cooperation agreement with the European Union.

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Seeing Red Again in Chisinau

13. March 2014

In April 2009, Rodion Burca celebrated his 21st birthday in jail.

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Leader-in-exile: Youths lead Tibet freedom fight

10. March 2014

Young Tibetans are leading the fight to free their homeland from Chinese rule, the leader of the community's government-in-exile said on Monday's 55th anniversary of an uprising that led to a bloody crackdown and drove the Dalai Lama to flee into India.