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Teised allikad aga nendivad, et nn memoriaal tähistab "Jääretke", mil vene enamlaste laevastik taganes Tallinnast.
Igal juhul pole see mingi 2. ilmasõja "monument". Punane küll.
https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jääretk
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[2024-05-04 14:52 UTC]
The
https://nitter.privacydev.net/nytimes
on the debut of this alternative fair, dealers from Oslo to Estonia have teamed up, turning a private club, The Estonian House in Murray Hill into a total work of art.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/arts/design/esther-art-fair-estonia-new-york.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o00.w1ua.P2yQiLuqEn9p&smid=url-share
[2024-05-02 13:46 UTC]
When Estonia joined the EU 1 May, 20 years ago, instead of shooting off fireworks, we planted 1 million trees: spruce and pine mainly; saplings at the time, really.
With friends and neighbors, I planted some 3000 that day.
On 2 May 2004, I planted a real park of larger trees.
The years 1996-2002, the years of the Estonian accession and negotiation process, when I was foreign affairs minister, were the most intense of my life, as they were for so many of my colleagues. I wanted to mark that process with something more enduring than just fireworks.
I invited those most involved in our accession to come to my farm and to plant a tree in their own name or the name of their country:
Estonian foreign ministry officials who had worked hardest on enlargement; politicians from Estonia and abroad, without whom there would have been no enlargement; ambassadors of EU members resident in Estonia at the time, came to Ärma to plant their tree.
Over the years the park has grown. As have the trees. Euroopa Park has become full-fledged park, with the trees of some 10 EU heads of state and government and many other friends of Estonia.
Trees in Estonia are only now slowly coming into leaf. Here is one tree, a Red Maple, planted by Günter Verheugen, EU Commissioner for Enlargement 1999-2004. without whom the "Big Bang" of 2004 enlargement could not have taken place.
Directly to the left is a Horse Chestnut, planted by the Netherlands ambassador at the time, Ms Van Vliet.
The red "August Vaga" apple tree in the background between the two, was planted by composer Arvo Pärt.
Long after I am gone there will be a park dedicated to Estonia joining the European Union.
https://nitter.privacydev.net/EuroopaKomisjon
https://nitter.privacydev.net/MFAestonia
[2024-05-02 11:41 UTC]
This, on top of yesterday's news of Russia hacking the Texas water supply system.
Wake. up people. We're not talking about a "far away place about which we know nothing."
For them, it's War.
German police arrest suspected Russian spies over bombing plan
https://www.ft.com/content/9ee73d65-9575-410c-acba-3bc8b0bc08ae
[2024-04-18 12:38 UTC]
"MAGA is using Israel to undermine Ukraine, harming them both" by the always perspicacious
https://nitter.privacydev.net/joshrogin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/16/maga-israel-ukraine-aid/
[2024-04-16 23:19 UTC]
When, if it ever, did it emerge?
And for how long?
"Russia Is Descending into the Dark Ages Through Normalizing Violence"
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/05/russia-is-descending-into-the-dark-ages-through-normalizing-violence-a84717
[2024-04-08 07:13 UTC]
Prepare for Putin pivot to invade us, say Baltic states
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/30/nato-get-ready-for-russia-to-invade-baltic-ambassadors-warn/
[2024-03-30 20:28 UTC]
More than 1,600 European planes hit by mystery GPS jamming with Russia feared responsible
https://nitter.privacydev.net/LBC
http://www.lbc.co.uk/news/more-than-1-600-european-planes-hit-mystery-gps-jamming/
[2024-03-27 19:20 UTC]
Putin will be ruthless after the Moscow attack, but Russians don’t trust him to keep them safe
by
https://nitter.privacydev.net/AndreiSoldatov
, one of the smartest experts around on the Russian secret services
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/24/vladimir-putin-moscow-attack-crocus-city-hall-russians-terrorism
[2024-03-24 19:20 UTC]
Fearing Their Officers More Than the Enemy: Summary Executions from George Washington to Ukraine
https://nitter.privacydev.net/WarOnTheRocks
https://warontherocks.com/2024/03/fearing-their-officers-more-than-the-enemy-summary-executions-from-george-washington-to-ukraine/
[2024-03-20 21:37 UTC]
Russia Steps Up Spy War on West
https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-steps-up-spy-war-on-west/7525424.html
[2024-03-16 21:49 UTC]
Germany: The Weakest Link
https://cepa.org/article/germany-the-weakest-link/
[2024-03-10 20:37 UTC]
A Washington Bulwark Against Putin Is Rocked by Internal Strife. Is It Simple Dysfunction — or Something Worse?
The Helsinki Commission is roiled by claims its Republican director has made against his Democratic-appointed predecessor (and vice versa).
https://politi.co/4cadGBZ
[2024-03-09 14:33 UTC]
Raiffeisenbank was advertising loans to Russian war criminals killing and raping in Ukraine.
It's about the ghoulish Schweine get cut off from US financial institutions.
https://euobserver.com/world/158200
[2024-03-09 11:16 UTC]
America’s New Twilight Struggle With Russia
An important piece by
https://nitter.privacydev.net/maxbergmann
,
https://nitter.privacydev.net/MSnegovaya
,
https://nitter.privacydev.net/mkimmage
and jeffrey mankoff in
https://nitter.privacydev.net/ForeignAffairs
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/americas-new-twilight-struggle-russia?utm_medium=social
[2024-03-09 10:40 UTC]
Europe kicked out Vladimir Putin’s spies. Now they’re back.
Game of ‘cat and mouse’ returns to cold war levels, say intelligence officers.
Beware of Russian carrying Gift.
A gift article for my followers.
https://on.ft.com/48EcO5y
[2024-03-07 07:26 UTC]
New, in depth analysis from the think tank
https://nitter.privacydev.net/Bruegel_org
Read it
Ukraine’s path to European Union membership and its long-term implications
The war complicates the accession process, but Ukraine can work progressively towards meeting entry conditions
https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/ukraines-path-european-union-membership-and-its-long-term-implications
[2024-03-07 07:08 UTC]
Now The Truth! The never before revealed history of Europe.
Western Europe can finally begin to learn its real history.
Up till now only CEE and Northern Europe had the long hidden truth revealed by Putin and Russian historians
https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-exists-thanks-to-russia-putin-claims/
[2024-03-07 06:16 UTC]
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