While Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has been trying to downplay the Russia-oriented business of Stark Logistics, an Estonian road haulage company co-owned by her husband Arvo Hallik, the Russia-oriented business of Metaprint, a holding of the largest owner of Stark Logistics, is unequivocally subject to the sanctions related to the war in Ukraine, as the company itself has stated in its latest annual report.
Urmas Reinsalu, the chairman of the centre-right Isamaa party, currently in the opposition, wrote on social media that the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, didn’t have another option than to immediately resign, in the wake of the revelations that a company partly owned by her husband had continued to do business in Russia and also delivered sanctioned metal goods.
Recent polls by two survey companies show that a majority of Estonians think the country’s prime minister Kaja Kallas should resign because of her husband's business dealings with Russia.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Estonia’s strongly pro-Ukrainian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, came under increasing pressure Friday to resign, after Estonian media revealed her husband’s role in a company that indirectly did business in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Kallas, 46, one of Europe’s most outspoken supporters of Ukraine, had urged all […]