Moscow also keeps Estonia, a former Soviet republic, under close watch (see ... humanity perpetrated during the Soviet and National Socialist German occupations, “regardless of the citizenship ...

A group of Estonian artists has restored a mural of a sailor at an abandoned Soviet naval base, in an effort to address their country's troubled history with Russia. Hilkka Hiiop, a professor at ...

Last December, the Delfi news website in Estonia reported that the Defence Ministry wants Parliament to consider a bill that would recognise World War II fighters against Soviet troops as Estonian ...

This spot in Tallinn was where 300,000 people had gathered three decades earlier, for the Singing Revolution, which helped Estonia break free from the Soviet Union. The entrepreneur behind the ...

Ten alleged saboteurs believed to be operating under orders from Russia have been detained in Estonia, according to the domestic security agency of the country. Knewz.com has learned that the 10 ...

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 ...

In 1917, out of the wreckage and poverty of the Russian Empire, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin began assembling the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin’s dictatorship, under the banner of ...

The Ad Hoc Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems resolves: to exclude the representative of the Kuomintang group form membership of the Committee.

That was the system that governed the Soviet Union until ... they may call themselves socialist or have socialist economies. Vietnam, for example, is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Within a year, the government of Estonia—then the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic—passed legislation protecting the caves and prohibiting entry during hibernation season. Of course ...