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The Prime Minister of Estonia has warned that her country faces blackouts if Russia disconnects the three Baltic states — all NATO and EU members — from its grid amid the ongoing Russo-Western sanctions war. 

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s top counter-intelligence agency on Monday blamed Ukrainian spy services for organizing the killing of the daughter of a leading Russian nationalist ideologue in a car bombing just outside Moscow.

Estonia’s government said Tuesday it has decided to remove a Soviet-era monument from public space in an eastern border town.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Estonia decided Thursday to bar people from neighbouring Russia with tourist visas from entering the northernmost Baltic country as a consequence of the war in Ukraine.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Thursday was formally admitted to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE), becoming the first Asian member of the defensive alliance.

As a number of EU leaders – including the President of Poland – visit Ukraine, Germany has been left licking its wounds after apparently being told that their head of state is ‘not wanted’ in the country.

European politicians floated an embargo on Russian gas after accusing Moscow of being behind an alleged massacre of civilians.

Viewed from Paris, London and Washington, the events unfolding in Ukraine may seem like a new Cold War taking shape in Europe.

Russia has mocked Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary for appearing to suggest the Baltic States are located on the Black Sea, suggesting the world needs to be saved from “the stupidity and ignorance of Anglo-Saxon politicians” 

The UK has begun evacuating some embassy staff and their dependents from Britain’s embassy in Kyiv amid the “growing threat” of an invasion.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Lawmakers from all three Baltic states met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday in a sign of further cooperation between European Union nations and Taiwan.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – Estonia’s Parliament on Monday failed to elect a new president to the Baltic country after lawmakers rejected the only candidate in the first round of voting.

The European Union has accused Belarus of attacking the bloc with mainly Iraqi migrants by forcing them to cross the borders into Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.

So far this year, more than 4,000 asylum-seekers from 40 countries, most of them Iraqi, have illegally crossed from Belarus into Lithuania. That’s 50 times more than during all of 2020.

TARTU, Estonia (AP) – With her father in tow, 13-year-old Gloria Raudjarv marched through a vaccination centre inside a sports hall in Estonia’s second-largest city and up to a nurse for her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The presidents of Ukraine, the Baltic nations and Poland are meeting in Warsaw Monday to mark the 230th anniversary of Poland´s constitution.

A senior official for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was convicted of spying for China last week, according to a report from Daily Beast.

During the dive, a large hole in the hull of the ferry was spotted, raising questions about the cause of the sinking.

Estonia´s prime minister has handed in his resignation to the Baltic country´s president amid a corruption scandal.

Estonia’s Minister of the Interior has resigned from government after branding Joe and Hunter Biden ‘”corrupt characters” and the U.S. election results “falsified”. 

Remarks by Estonia’s interior minister towards Finland’s new millennial female-led government have provoked a backlash, including a confidence vote in the Estonian parliament.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with Estonian interior minister Mart Helme this week to forge new alliances between Hungary and the Baltic states on migration and conservative policies.

The leader of the Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE), who recently joined a new coalition government in the Baltic country following a populist breakthrough in national elections, has vowed to oppose further centralisation in the European Union.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – The father-and-son leaders of an anti-immigration party were sworn in Monday as Estonia’s interior and finance minister.

HELSINKI (AP) – Estonian populists sealed a coalition deal with two other political parties Saturday in a bid to take power, more than a month after the general election.

A center-right party that held the prime minister’s office in Estonia for over a decade won the Baltic country’s general election Sunday, while a far-right populist party emerged as a big winner despite snubs from traditional power-brokers.

Pope Francis masterfully controlled the press briefing aboard the papal plane Tuesday in such a way as to make sure that he did not have to face embarrassing questions about how he handled the case of serial abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Pope Francis told young people in Estonia Tuesday that he understands their frustration over financial and sexual scandals in the Church, while promising them “transparency.”

While Pope Francis demanded the tiny Baltic nations open up to mass migration Saturday, Estonia said it backs Viktor Orbán over the need to seal European borders against the third world influx.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive Thursday in Lithuania for a four-day visit during which he will also meet his Latvian and Estonian counterparts, local officials and the Jewish community.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson pushed back against the backlash over the question of small Balkan nation Montenegro as a member of NATO. According to Carlson, it was a relevant question given Americans could

President Donald Trump reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to trade with, security of, and the independence of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia during a Tuesday press conference with those nations’ presidents at the White House.

President Donald Trump will host a summit with heads of state from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the White House on April 3.

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NATO troops stationed near the Russian border have reported that Russian hackers are targeting their smartphones to “gain operational information, gauge troop strength, and intimidate soldiers,” the Wall Street Journal said in a report Wednesday.