A trained agriculturalist, Mr Ruutel was almost 50 when, in 1977, he began serving in high-ranking positions within the communist party of the Soviet republic of Estonia. In 1983, he was elected ...

The article recalls that, in 1922, during the establishment of the USSR, which was co-founded by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a rather heated discussion among the Bolsheviks resulted ...

The issue of reparations to the Baltic States, including Estonia, for the alleged Soviet occupation is off the table, the very term is inadmissible, according to the Russian ambassador MOSCOW ...

and Estonia stood with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili at a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, late Tuesday. Like the latter four, Georgia is a former Soviet republic. At the rally, Saakashvili ...